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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

I wonder if it's because [email protected] sidebar and rules say:

This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server.

That means announcements from the team, issues you see etc.

There's so much spam in this community already. People are using it as a catch-all community

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.world/post/163272

New mod enforcing the lemmy.world rule about only posting info relevent to the server. The community was not intended to be a /all. Irrelevent but useful posts to reddit refugees are being left up for a while and highly upvoted posts are being locked.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Another approach would've been to just create another community for instance specific discussion and change the rules of c/lemmy.world

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

True enough, I don't have a preference either way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

In most instances (like beehaw) it's really just because lack of good moderation tools at the moment is making it difficult for them to handle a large influx of users and it's intended to be temporary.

Personally, I think defederating is overkill, but I'm not an admin and I empathize with the difficulty I'm sure they're facing with such a rapid scale up. The best way for most people to help this situation is to just do a good job of properly upvoting & (if enabled) downvoting content to help naturally sort content, and help report when you see people acting against the rules of a community to help it's mods.

People who are technically savvy could especially help by participating in the development of FOSS Lemmy mod tools.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This specific forum is for discussing issues about the instance. It's not an "all topics" forum. There are lots of others for other topics!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We could create a new community to fix that?
Like a lemmy.world/c/all or lemmy.world/c/main

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be better for general posts than posting on the community about the lemmy.world instance, but aren't new users (that mostly come from Reddit) not already used to subreddits? It should not be too hard to figure out how to post in the right community. If not, then maybe we need to help them with finding communities? Here on lemmy.world they should just be able to use the search option.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fully agree, but some seem to want a "general" one as this post says.

[–] socialjusticewizard 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It seems to me that [email protected] is filling the role described, for the most part.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was thinking more if the new users needed a local and more general one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I assume it's in reference to this: https://lemmy.one/post/137234

where lemmy.world is enforcing on-topic posts in their lemmy.world community, which was originally intended to be just about the instance itself rather than a catchall r/all style thing

[–] JohnDClay 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I don't get it either, we've got an all option (at least in Jerboa, I haven't used the web version much)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Look at the mod log. Tons of locks and removed content in the last hour

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm pretty sure I just saw a post of ss officer booty girls on lemmy.world . Smh(lmao)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I'm so glad I didn't make an account in one of the big instances.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a heads up https://lemmy.world/c/general has been started to fill the void left by Lemmy.world