I’ve been on mastodon for years so I knew :p
Everything I say is my opinion, and not objective facts.
I’ve been on mastodon for years so I knew :p
Nothing really, it’s just a totally normal day here in Europe.
Yeah, I’m not a big fan of the bots, I’d rather spend my time discussing things here are interested in, rather than something that nobody here really felt like adding.
Yeah, it feels very much like a bare bones sync, which I’m using for reddit, I’m looking so much forward to sync coming out :)
That sounds very pessimistic, I hope that won’t be the case, at least it seems like the mastodon instance I’m on will block it from the start, so that’s at least something.
Wouldn’t the NDA’s just make it even more likely taht people will defederate?
It’s wild, and sync was an awesome piece of software that I’ve been using over a decade, and I never had a problem with it, that’s not often I can say about something. The reddit app has always been pure garbage.
Well, I mean, they disagreed with them… :p it seems to be the reddit inc way of doing things.
Yeah, I’m so excited for sync for reddit, I’ve used sync for close to a decade now, and how it works just is what I expect from an app :p So it will be great to have it for lemmy, it will probably be what gets me from kbin over to lemmy as well.
The thing is I really enjoyed the community that I modded, and still do, so I wanted to make it the best place it could be, I didn’t have the skills either to do it in the beginning, started out just helping out the main moderator of our community, then after a couple of years they just disappeared, and I was driving myself rather insane for a year before I started fighting with the admins for 3-4 weeks to get the rights to get more moderators to join me, since I didn’t have the right to before that, only the main mod had those rights.
I invited some people that I trusted from the community, and it at least made the work more tolerateable, having it spread out between 3 people in different timezones, and keep in mind we were a really small niche sub (~8k members) I don’t even want to know how much worse it is for people moderating the gigantic ones, more people usually brings a lot more problems.
It became more or less a routine, just checking in, seeing if there was any spats to break up, people who were being dicks or spamming us with their books etc without interacting with the community, you get into this groove where you just get used to it. The most annoying thing was the few times where we gave people temporary bans and they started being aggressive about it in the mod chat, but since we were a really nice small community it was all worth it.
Come this whole thing, they take away the tools I used to deal with my routine, which would force me to be on the PC a lot more to deal with the community, then the blackout, we had a vote, and people were mostly for it, we did it, and people were decently for having done it, but nothing more when we were done. I don’t know why mods have a bad rep, might be a bigger sub problem like so often, I don’t know, we at least tried to do as much as possible just to keep our little community being friendly, accepting of beginners and not getting spammed with extremely repetetive content.
With this whole thing, I tried being a part after the blackout as well, but I keep seeing people just being really vitriolic, the place doesn’t seem the same anymore, the whole keeping the community happy thing gets to tiring when you know the site does it’s best to make it harder to deal with. I tried contacting admins again, but got some argueably toxic answers from the german admin, which is the only one I was getting a hold of. And I can’t justify doing free work for a company that really doesn’t appreciate it at all.
In the end I hope I at least left the community in a better shape that I entered it, I don’t know if I did, but I hope so. At least this way I can stay true to myself and not being a spineless person not ready to give up on things, not because I think I would be the only one doing the work, but because I was already doing it and kind of knew what I was doing, and how our community ticked.
Yeah, that was it for me, I deleted my old 10+ year old user, who was a moderator, I might come back with a smaller account, but rewrote and deleted all my old stuff, the thing is there is really hard to find something for some of my really niche interests :/
It’s not even completely gone, and I already really miss sync, it’s such a great application, it made reddit not suck :) so good :)
This is good to see, it seems a lot of the people that were for the blackout left, now there is so much vitriol against moderators on reddit, I’m so tired, I just don’t want to anymore, deleted my 10+ year old account today after telling my mod team I can’t anymore, so now at least the chances are smaller that I will go back.
doesn’t help for me they rolled back posts, not that many, but still…
Yeah, some people are really werid.
They are waiting for better moderation tools yeah :)
But other people will, so it’s only the beehaw users that won’t see it.
They do want to refederate when they get more granular options, but the federation options for lemmy right now is basically federate or not, which is kind of sucky, also I don’t think reports bubble up to the origin server like they do on mastodon, I’m sure it will get there in time, but for now there isn’t that many.
Most of the time I just use the commandline stuff (cd ls mv rm etc.) but I have vifm installed if I really want one