This dude posts a wildly racist meme of Michelle Obama. I report the post. Funnily enough, the racist post is posted by the mod of dankmemes, dankchristianmemes and some other shit hole.
Said mod then starts sending abusive transphobic messages to me. Try to report the user. Nothing happens when I hit the button.
Shit like this is why Lemmy isn’t a viable alternative yet. We need to do better and be better.
Calm down first of all. This isn’t reddit where you can assume 100 devs are working on the code. It’s a few poor sods who do this in their free time and suddenly became popular.
Do you think your side project (if you have one) is ready for 100k people to use or critique? Settle down, grab a tea, report the bug or upvote the existing one, and move on to happier things. Then grab a pint and let it all blow over.
I got banned from all of reddit for 3 days because i reported a post that broke a rule, few hours later that post was removed for braking such rule, so i got banned for helping
Lemmy isn’t a viable alternative
To what?
You went to a website owned by racists, and after you wrote to them complaining, they refuse to take the racist content off their website. You could be talking about CNN right now.
This is kinda tangential, but this is what happens when you don’t have dedicated mods with robust tools.
As much as reddit hated mods, and despite there being shitty mods, without moderation, things fall apart because people suck.
When mods suck too, you have to hope admins don’t. When admins suck, you’re screwed.
