• Thomas@lemmy.douwes.co.ukOP
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    1 year ago

    fair, It just feels like we’re going back to centralisation if everything is on lemmy.world. What do mean about difficult to moderate? the instance or the community?

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      1 year ago

      I’m not saying we would go down the lemmy.world route, but equally it wouldn’t be a home server, there are more reliable options, lemmy.world is struggling a little right now. For moderation I was specifically referring to the tools available to moderate the community, automod on reddit is very powerful and helps take the simpler tasks out of moderation that stop subs becoming spammed and botted messes, the API is very useful for moderation bots and there are some other useful tools, Lemmy isn’t close yet and will be a while off…

      Edit: Sorry and yes I’m not a fan of discord either, it’s not got the knowledge retention like a reddit format where you can go back and pick up on a 2 year old conversation…

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        1 year ago

        I get the moderation thing. I moderate a few tiny communities and the mod tools are pretty terrible. I run a couple bots but I wouldn’t even know where to start for a moderation bot, probably because I never modded on reddit.

        Discord is a pain the the ass. it’s fine for chatting but support is terrible. You ask a useful question and someone posts le funny cat photo and suddenly no one ever response. It’s a bit better with threads but it’s still a chat app, not a forum. and sometimes it’s used for maintaining a list of links??? just link them on the webpage. I cannot fathom why so many communities migrated from forums to discord. literally none of the questions I have asked on big discords have been answered.

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          It’s a tough unpaid gig at the end of the day, hating on mods is pretty much a meme at this point in time especially on reddit and there’s a lot that goes on that 99% of users don’t see as it’s already been handled by mods or the tools in place. I know of several mods that are planning on leaving reddit entirely, not just because of the current situation (different sub BTW) as they have had enough and it’s just not good for their mental health and these are mods of over a decade.