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this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2023
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I think the issue that beehaw had was one of insufficient moderation tooling. Very solvable, and the admins even say that, but they also said they can't stand around waiting for mod tools to become available, so they're using the tool they have for the time being. If Lemmy catches on, I'm sure these issues will be solved in due time.
Beehaw is big on the "safe space" approach, rather than "grow" approach. So makes sense they did what they did.
In their defense, I remember a lot of people bouncing off voat specifically because it was full of trolls, racists, and generally horrible people. We don't want that happening here, too.
Its a fine line between "safe space" and "too space so no content". I think Beehaw has managed to achieve that
Exactly. They recognize that defederation is the nuclear option, but it's the only effective tool they have at the moment.
What moderation tooling do they need? Never did any Reddit modding myself but might be down for making some tools if someone gave me a rundown of what's needed
Unfortunately, I'm not really equipped to answer your question, but in sure if you reached out to behaws admins they'd point you in the right direction
Anything besides manually checking each post/comment and defederating an entire instance would help.
I've understood that the problem with Lemmy's moderation tooling right now is that if an instance has a lot of problematic users, the only way to handle that is to totally defederate.
Eg. the possibility of blanket blocking all users from instance X from commenting on instance Y without taking away instance Y users' ability to interact with communities on X would be useful. I've understood that Mastodon has something like this nowadays.