gabe [he/him] @ gabe @literature.cafe

Admin for literature.cafe. Lover of cats, books and yarn.

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Hopefully a push towards forcing the lemmy devs hands on that end will come from this.

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What happens if someone decides to subscribe to a seemingly innocent community that later becomes a target for such content to be posted? Because that's precisely what happened here.

I mean this very kindly, but seeing that you seem to operate your own instance this very serious misunderstanding of the risks involved with hosting a lemmy instance has me deeply concerned.

You are correct, there is safe harbor provisions on the matter. There is a legal responsibility to report and store the content securely when it is reported as an admin.

What NaibofTabr said. These weren't porn communities, they were generally regular communities.

You are right, there is safe harbor protections here. It's a legal mess that must be navigated carefully. We will see how things progress.

Please clear your browser cache and take care of yourself in whatever you need to. I am so sorry you had to see it.

The research in question here obviously isn’t pubmed or publishing journals but boomer Facebook memes, “holistic” mommy bloggers and at least a few nazis in a trench coat pretending to be a doctor

I subscribed! Will post when I get the time :)

A lot of it is very black and white thinking/refusal to see nuance...

Absolutely. I am not perfect whatsoever, no one is but I try my best personally to make lemmy a nice place and as a community it's our collective responsibility to at the very least try

I think it's a matter of being mindful of it, creating an environment where it isn't acceptable, as well as making sure that the algorithms that tend to generate the most toxicity don't get added in.

Oh no, they quite literally are. You pretty much nailed the root of it, and also brought up a good point as to why for profit social media tends to become so harmful. Engagement is prioritized, and "winning" and arguing with people drives engagement due to the dopamine hit. That's why you will constantly see rage bait promoted across social media. It makes money.

Unfortunately most places have "reply guys" in some capacity. I may have my own qualms with lemmy as a platform, but a lot of it is algorithmic and the lemmy devs are being mindful of making sure not to add the most toxic aspects of social media algorithms to lemmy. There's always those people seeking out toxicity and crave an argument on every platform. With platforms like this it's important to recognize that you curate your experience. Mute and block often. You aren't missing out on clout, or anything really. If there's anything that's hindering you from having a good time here then get rid of it. There's a lot of FOMO people have especially with browsing /all but the fediverse thrives when you curate what you want to see carefully.

It should also be noted that there's quite a few people on reddit determined to come here and try and start shit for no reason other than they find it to be fun. There's a pretty big post on reddit that I saw about lemmy being "too civil" and how the fact that there isn't a controversial sorting option, it's too boring for them to use. Some people crave conflict. Don't satisfy their craving.

I think that it wasn't a honey moon period, but more so people are getting settled in and attempting to bring in toxicity because some people just crave toxicity for no logical reason..

That's what happened with twitter and mastodon. People will come in waves.

I think inevitably Reddit's utter collapse will be power mods causing intense drama as well the mods who are actually capable of curating content properly having left. I was surprised no hate subs spawned from the migration away from reddit, but I realized something. The people who would likely moderate hate subs now moderate the mainstream subs. Shit is going to hit the fan.

domain based blocking is coming soon!

Make the posts you want to see, that's the key here. I'm posting and making topics in my own communities that I want to thrive. As well, lemmy is still in alpha. There is a lot to improve upon, and it's moving forward pretty rapidly.