On Reddit we actually had a rule that it was OK to ask "where do I start" or "how do I get my friend into Star trek" questions because someone would inevitably complain about "this again". As if:
Funny how the platform still runs on their unpaid labor, isn’t it?
Something I learned during the Vaxxhappened protest is just how many moderators are perfectly content to do these "jobs". I found it honestly very sad how many of these what are ostensibly "community leaders" will happily acquiescence to the ~~demands~~ desires of the company as long as they can continue to do the job.
Don't get me wrong I have a lot of sympathy for many of the moderators there who care deeply about their communities and providing a welcoming experience and feel stuck to Reddit, but until more of them grow a spine and idk, move to Lemmy or something like the top r/startrek and r/daystrominstaitute mods did (not me to be clear) then nothing of substance will change there. There is a seeming endless supply of people willing to clean up Reddit for free.
You're not going to find a sympathetic ear from the mods of this community (believe me I've tried, oh have I tried) but I understand where you're coming from and agree. The Lemmy network in general is comprised of a lot of people who are here (I'm sorry to say) because they are too poorly socialized even for reddit, and there are too few mods/admins in the overall network are who know what it means to be the adult in the room. The result is that most places with authentic activity are too toxic for "normies" and the places willing to enforce something as simple as good manners are quieter.
I still believe a critical mass of more ah, well-adjusted people can improve the culture, but that day gets further and further away as long as the existing culture remains in the state it is in.
I never got much into the comics, anyone with experience know if these are a good place to start?
The most difficult parts of moderating on Reddit aren't the trolls or spammers or even the rule-breakers, it's identifying the accounts who intentionally walk the line of what's appropriate.
IMO only a human moderator can recognize when someone is being a complete asshole but "doing it politely", or trying to push an agenda or generally behaving inauthentically, because human moderators are (in theory) members of the community themselves and have an interest in that community being enjoyable to be a part of.
Humans are messy, and finding the right balance of mess to keep things interesting without making a place overwhelming to newcomers is a fine balance to strike that I just don't believe an AI can do on it's own.
Lemmy.world for instance could put the rest of the Lemmy fediverse between a rock and a hard place if they wanted to
beehaw.org is doing great, and they deferated from.world a while ago. Your point is correct though, Mastodon.social for example has half of all Mastodon users.
That said- there is little incentive to having a large instance, it costs a lot more and requires a lot more work.
"The fediverse" has no rules, if an instance wants to allow vote manipulation they have that power.
The best defense is to call them out on it and then walk away
Yes exactly, I try to just simply describe what they are doing "This account is spreading the false narrative _____ for the purposes of ___" then not replying again. They want engagement because the more back-and-forth bickering that goes on, the less likely a third party reader is going to care to read beyond the top comment (the propaganda) and seeing a lot of replies can also give the impression that the debate is legitimate. Getting into a "debate" with someone "debating" in bad faith only helps them flood the zone with shit.
Reddit mods can sniff out astroturfing pretty easily actually, but Reddit inc doesn't do much to stop it. On the Fediverse, admins can simply ban from the instance, and if an instance does a poor job of removing inauthentic content then they can defederate.
He's not really dead. As long as we remember him.
Some impressive gymnastics going on with the guy you're replying to...
What I remember people saying about Enterprise at the time was along the lines of "hadn't they learned their lesson with Voyager?" 7 of 9's outfit was an embarrassing thing non-trekkies would point to when characterizing Trek fans as "virgin nerds".