196
Community Rules
You must post before you leave
Be nice. Assume others have good intent (within reason).
Block or ignore posts, comments, and users that irritate you in some way rather than engaging. Report if they are actually breaking community rules.
Use content warnings and/or mark as NSFW when appropriate. Most posts with content warnings likely need to be marked NSFW.
Most 196 posts are memes, shitposts, cute images, or even just recent things that happened, etc. There is no real theme, but try to avoid posts that are very inflammatory, offensive, very low quality, or very "off topic".
Bigotry is not allowed, this includes (but is not limited to): Homophobia, Transphobia, Racism, Sexism, Abelism, Classism, or discrimination based on things like Ethnicity, Nationality, Language, or Religion.
Avoid shilling for corporations, posting advertisements, or promoting exploitation of workers.
Proselytization, support, or defense of authoritarianism is not welcome. This includes but is not limited to: imperialism, nationalism, genocide denial, ethnic or racial supremacy, fascism, Nazism, Marxism-Leninism, Maoism, etc.
Avoid AI generated content.
Avoid misinformation.
Avoid incomprehensible posts.
No threats or personal attacks.
No spam.
Moderator Guidelines
Moderator Guidelines
- Don’t be mean to users. Be gentle or neutral.
- Most moderator actions which have a modlog message should include your username.
- When in doubt about whether or not a user is problematic, send them a DM.
- Don’t waste time debating/arguing with problematic users.
- Assume the best, but don’t tolerate sealioning/just asking questions/concern trolling.
- Ask another mod to take over cases you struggle with, if you get tired, or when things get personal.
- Ask the other mods for advice when things get complicated.
- Share everything you do in the mod matrix, both so several mods aren't unknowingly handling the same issues, but also so you can receive feedback on what you intend to do.
- Don't rush mod actions. If a case doesn't need to be handled right away, consider taking a short break before getting to it. This is to say, cool down and make room for feedback.
- Don’t perform too much moderation in the comments, except if you want a verdict to be public or to ask people to dial a convo down/stop. Single comment warnings are okay.
- Send users concise DMs about verdicts about them, such as bans etc, except in cases where it is clear we don’t want them at all, such as obvious transphobes. No need to notify someone they haven’t been banned of course.
- Explain to a user why their behavior is problematic and how it is distressing others rather than engage with whatever they are saying. Ask them to avoid this in the future and send them packing if they do not comply.
- First warn users, then temp ban them, then finally perma ban them when they break the rules or act inappropriately. Skip steps if necessary.
- Use neutral statements like “this statement can be considered transphobic” rather than “you are being transphobic”.
- No large decisions or actions without community input (polls or meta posts f.ex.).
- Large internal decisions (such as ousting a mod) might require a vote, needing more than 50% of the votes to pass. Also consider asking the community for feedback.
- Remember you are a voluntary moderator. You don’t get paid. Take a break when you need one. Perhaps ask another moderator to step in if necessary.
view the rest of the comments
Oh man, I love disassociating so much. I hate the real world. Why do I have to be constantly reminded of genocide, innocent people being sent to concentration camps, entire demographics losing their rights, or fascist white supremacists that would goon to the thought of my life being just a little harder?
Why is no one letting me disassociate in peace like I want. Don't they understand that I'm the real victim here?
Ah yes, the two sides of existence where there's zero middle ground:
Being someone who follows nothing because I don't care enough to follow stuff
or
Duct-taping my eyes to the screen as I scroll through every single thing on the internet about every minute little detail that happens in politics to the point where it's my entire identity.
Clearly no middle ground possible here, no-siree, but let's just pretend that Lemmy doesn't have a problem with user growth because people get turned away because it's 90% political content on the major feeds and nothing else.
The beauty of the fediverse is that no one platform should become omnipresent but that interconnection between platforms is possible. It’s a user-directed service. If Lemmy isn’t meeting your personal standards then there are other options.
Yes, Lemmy is quite political. If that doesn’t tickle your fancy, you’re more than welcome to try a different service. Lemmy’s purpose is not to become the next Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok in size - it’s to provide an alternative to them. Growth for growth’s sake isn’t usually a great idea.
Did you know that there are non-Americans on Lemmy? And that they maybe, just maybe, might want to focus on what is happening in their own countries?
I agree with the sentiment but trump is happening to your country too. America does effect the world even us non Americans.
I'm Canadian so it's certainly more pronounced but not a single country is uneffected by his actions and by the american market.
Lastly, feel free to post about your country and its issues. I'd personally love to see some shotposting about countries I don't know much on or don't pay enough attention to. Win win. Less trump posts per capita, more content on Lemmy, and we all learn
I already engage with what is happening in the US enough, but I try and avoid it here on Lemmy. I am mainly responding here in defence of someone who was jumped on for wanting to be able to regulate their intake of US politics.
I am not the most creative when it comes to memes, but I do post about Australian police issues over at !acab@quokk.au
On the flipside, how many of those people live in countries that would be unaffected by the outcome of US events?
This is just American exceptionalism. Let me reframe it, how many of those people would be unaffected by the outcome of Chinese events? Yet there are nowhere near as many posts about what is happening there.
But most of all, I think OCs complaint is valid. All it would have taken is text added to the post that just said "Trump" and this would have been filtered by their keyword blocklist (and mine), their freedom to disengage remaining intact. OP replied to mock them when they could have made that change. That is what frustrates me.
If think what is happening in the USA will be isolated to the USA, then good luck.
USD is the worlds reserve currency. What happens to it effects every country.
I know that every aspect of life is political now, and that makes some mad. But really ask yourself how your country will be affected by the devaluation of USD and its next financial crisis. Then ask what would your country use for international trade instead?
What is coming will affect everyone in who's country is is in anyway economically affiliated with the US. This post was meant to be a wakeup call for people to do a risk assessment.
Honestly, I hope I'm wrong and what happens in the US can be totally isolated here. But realistically, I can't think of a way that's true.
And you being awful to someone who needs to disconnect from US politics is helping how exactly? This is all just the same American exceptionalism that's existed on Lemmy (and Reddit before that) since the Obama era. You could literally just edit "trump" into your post and folks like myself and OC could choose how to regulate their feeds. I already get enough US politics from everywhere else that doesn't have these keyword blocklist options.