Ever contribution is greatly appreciated even if it's just 10 cents a month (please don't actually donate just 10 cents, payment fees are more than that). We currently don't have plans of doing flairs but if we ever do we will keep what you've mentioned in mind.
The current funds are enough to operate it at it's current capacity for ~11 months. Once we get to accepting donations again and figure out how to set up our accounting, I would definitely like to see a growing contingency reserve fund built up to be ready for future unexpected growth or unexpected slowdown in donations.
We will continue to be transparent in a similar format to this but split the remaining balance in a operating fund and reserve fund.
Does all reports goes through the instance’s admins? From what I understand, it’s all the reports from local users in all communities, remote and local?
We get all reports made by local users regardless of if the community is local or not.
We get all reports made regarding local communities or local users regardless of if the report is made by a local or remote users.
I'm 99.9% certain we don't see reports if there isn't a local user involved in any way with the report. (Ex. Remote users makes a report on a post/comment posted on a remote community by a remote user)
Are they also provided to the mods of the community where the reports originated from?
Yes.
For communities hosted through another instance, are these reports also sent to the admins of that instance, what about the mods in that remote community?
Yes.
It gets really complex how reports get cleared after they've been actioned or cleared in various scenarios. For the most part actions we take against local users or submissions on local communities will also be reflected on other instances. Actions taken on Lemmy.ca on remote users or submissions on remote communities only reflect for those browsing through lemmy.ca and admins/mods of other instances/remote communities still need to take their own separate action.
Edit: We generally will not take action regarding content on remote communities that violate the remote community's rules. We are mostly concerned about things that break our instance rules and leave it for moderators of remote communities to deal with those. We will still see the reports, and it's important to make the reports so remote admins/mods can take action on them. We simply "resolve" or clear those reports from our local mod queue which still leaves it visible for the remote admins/mods.
As an administrator who gets every report made by a local user in all communities, and reports made by remote users on local communities, having to try and figure out why someone reported the content can be rather time consuming.
Pretty much every instance was having federation issues with lemmy.world due to their server just being overloaded. It's significantly improved but I'm not sure if it's 100% perfect yet.
We'll share this post with other instance admins once there's a bit more discussion, and maybe seeing this will get the ball rolling for other instances to have similar discussions.
Ever contribution is greatly appreciated even if it's just 10 cents a month (please don't actually donate just 10 cents, payment fees are more than that). We currently don't have plans of doing flairs but if we ever do we will keep what you've mentioned in mind.