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What's preventing y'all from moderating a community? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by cinoreus@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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For me it's the long term commitment, what about y'all?

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[–] cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago

I ran a forum once, about 20-25 years ago. I got caught up in some bullshit and I banned a guy for speaking out of turn and daring me to. I got a lot of respect for the guy, it was people I mostly know (mostly online though) but whether or not he lost any for me, I lost some for myself. What I should have done was said, we're all adults here, fucking act like it. But no, I had a ban hammer and I swung it. It didn't fix anything.

I started a community on the instance I'm on yesterday. I hope I don't have to do any moderating. But I may. Who knows. Fortunately it's on dbzer0 and they're pretty free-speech unless it goes directly against their politics, I'm not sure if that'll be an issue. I hope it won't. This shit that's happening overseas. I made a music community. We didn't have one for some reason, I decided to be the change I wanted to see in the fediverse. (I know there are music communities on other instances. I wanted to support the one I'm on.)

So, I don't think a lot of people need to be moderated. I think the voting handles most of it, you can set your Lemmy client to ignore people with so many downvotes, and I think that's fine. Or at least you could on the red site.

But also, to the OP, do you think people are just handing out moderation jobs? I think what you maybe want to ask is what's preventing people from starting a community. In which case I would say start one on your instance. However OP is on Lemmy.world, which is the biggest instance. I think you can only start them on your own instance? So it's different for World users. You don't really want to divide the Fediverse and if something's already on your instance and you love it, I think you should support it with content and/or comments, and if the community likes you, you should moderate if asked, but you shouldn't seek it out if they don't ask/open applications. On smaller instances, I feel like we have more options. I will for sure join comms on other instances (for example the ones on World tend to be the busiest), but I also like to support my local instance with traffic/content first. As any smaller instance user should.