Why is Lemmy.world getting over moderated as it has been functioning as our r/all equivalent by obvious user choice?

https://lemmy.world/post/163272

New mod enforcing the lemmy.world rule about only posting info relevent to the server. The community was not intended to be a /all. Irrelevent but useful posts to reddit refugees are being left up for a while and highly upvoted posts are being locked.

Another approach would've been to just create another community for instance specific discussion and change the rules of c/lemmy.world
- True enough, I don't have a preference either way.
Use dictates rules. This is why the blackout happened. Arbitrarily enforcing obscure initial intent that has never been enforced, and does not reflect use is counterproductive nonsense and anti community. Make a new sub that suits the old purpose.
- Or just make a new sub that fits the new purpose? Goes both ways. The community is for server announcements and the like that people should probably see.

I wonder if it's because !lemmyworld@lemmy.world sidebar and rules say:

This Community is intended for posts about the Lemmy.world server.

That means announcements from the team, issues you see etc.

There's so much spam in this community already. People are using it as a catch-all community

In most instances (like beehaw) it's really just because lack of good moderation tools at the moment is making it difficult for them to handle a large influx of users and it's intended to be temporary.

Personally, I think defederating is overkill, but I'm not an admin and I empathize with the difficulty I'm sure they're facing with such a rapid scale up. The best way for most people to help this situation is to just do a good job of properly upvoting & (if enabled) downvoting content to help naturally sort content, and help report when you see people acting against the rules of a community to help it's mods.

People who are technically savvy could especially help by participating in the development of FOSS Lemmy mod tools.

This specific forum is for discussing issues about the instance. It's not an "all topics" forum. There are lots of others for other topics!

We could create a new community to fix that?
Like a lemmy.world/c/all or lemmy.world/c/main

That would be better for general posts than posting on the community about the lemmy.world instance, but aren't new users (that mostly come from Reddit) not already used to subreddits? It should not be too hard to figure out how to post in the right community. If not, then maybe we need to help them with finding communities? Here on lemmy.world they should just be able to use the search option.
- Fully agree, but some seem to want a "general" one as this post says.
It seems to me that asklemmy@lemmy.ml is filling the role described, for the most part.
- Yeah, I was thinking more if the new users needed a local and more general one.

I'm pretty sure I just saw a post of ss officer booty girls on lemmy.world . Smh(lmao)

What?

I assume it's in reference to this: https://lemmy.one/post/137234

where lemmy.world is enforcing on-topic posts in their lemmy.world community, which was originally intended to be just about the instance itself rather than a catchall r/all style thing
Yeah I don't get it either, we've got an all option (at least in Jerboa, I haven't used the web version much)
Look at the mod log. Tons of locks and removed content in the last hour
- The post about Spez's internal memo to reddit employees was locked. WHY? Dear lemmy.world mods, this is the shit I wanted to get away from Reddit. Don't repeat the mistakes of the past.

I'm so glad I didn't make an account in one of the big instances.

Just a heads up https://lemmy.world/c/general has been started to fill the void left by Lemmy.world