I don’t really know which community to post this in, I think this is the most relevant one?
I’ve recently spent a bit more time on lemmy.world and I have to say they don’t seem super keen on removing trolls and transphobes, same for instances like lemmings.world.
The moderators seem to be perfectly aware of transphobic replies, vague threats, misinformation, and obvious trolling, yet they hardly remove any of the offending replies, and rarely if ever ban anyone. Certainly not often enough to make the network less toxic.
This post was mostly to vent, but I would also like to ask: when you report someone, who receives the report? Mods on my instance? The mods of the specific community I’m reporting from?
Sorry if this is the wrong place.
when you report someone, who receives the report? Mods on my instance? The mods of the specific community I’m reporting from?
When a report is made, it goes to three instances.
- The instance of the person making the report
- The instance of the account being reported
- The instance of the community in which the content was posted
Each instance only gets a single copy of the report and that report can be actioned by the admin of the instance the report is on, or moderators of the community. Only a single report is generated for each instance even if it meets multiple criteria, and it is one report per instance, not one report per admin/moderator. Marking a report as complete on one instance does not mark it as complete on another instance.
If a report leads to content removal, that removal will only federate if the reported content is removed by a moderator of the community, or by an admin of the instance that hosts the community or the user. If removed by any other admin, the removal doesn’t federate to other instances, and is purely removed for local users.
When a report is made, it goes to four instances.
1…2…3
But they were all deceived, for another report was made?
I noticed months ago that transphobic comments were being tolerated in communities on lemmy.world, which was one of several things that disillusioned me of the instance. Unfortunately I didn’t take screenshots, so I can’t recall exactly which communities I saw such comments, and I’d really hate to speculate. The comments I saw left up were the usual TERFy hot takes about women’s sports.
Reports go directly to the community moderators, and you can find that list in the sidebar aka under “community info.”
Reports may also go directly to admins, but I’m not sure. If you have an instance level concern, it’s probably best to contact an admin.
Reports do go to admins, at least on this instance. There’s a bot that shows lemmy reports on a matrix channel. Not sure if there’s a generic Lemmy interface that sends reports to admins, though.
most of the users i have blocked are from there, and it’s not a very long list either
World is pretty hit or miss like that, unfortunately.
But it comes down to individual mods. There’s some C/s that have mods listed that aren’t active, and haven’t gotten weeded out yet. And you have some real assholes there as mods and users, which is to be expected from the larger instances (the one I’m in as well, shithustworks has some major jerks here and there)
Iirc, both mods and admins have access to reports, but most instances of any size, the admins really don’t have the time to handle them.
We try to do our best, but we can only catch so much on a given day. Please use the report button if you find anything hateful. The site admins have little patience for biggorty ❤️
Any community demanding “be civil” can fuck right off, because they’re almost guaranteed to protect trolls and bastards from any meaningful condemnation.
