Calling all devs! We need moderation tools that can deal with the growth of Lemmy.

Beehaw admins: there are only four of us moderating everything

Community: so ask people to be admins mods

Beehaw admins: i can't understand a goddamn word you're saying

Edit: meant to say mods not admins

I personally find beehaw's moderation weird, I get that you're trying to create a safe and regulated space, but you simple can't do that with 4 mods on the entire instance. I do think that their decision to jump to defederation is a result of these 4 people being overworked and simply not having the time to rationally evaluate the situation.

if they want to continue like this they'll have to evaluate on whether to appoint proper mods to their communities or just decide to change their stance on "safe" content.

There doesn’t seem to be many moderation tools for people who don’t own the instance

I can code, but I've never been a moderator. What kind of mod tools do you want?

EDIT: More discussion about mod tools: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3281

okay, let's talk turkey. let's define some requirements for the mod tools, and then we can start talking about how to satisfy those requirements.

Has this ever happened? From what I can tell asking people to fix their issues is the first step, and defederation only happens when they can't/won't fix them yet

Yea this is really important, and also we need a way to moderate the moderators so we don't end up with the "super" mods we saw on Reddit...

Who defederated now?

Ribbits

See this post of mine which was prompted by a mastodon dev reviewing moderation tools on lemmy and kbin:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1286830

An iOS app would be wonderful. It's the only thing stopping me from being a full-time Lemmy user right now.

Defed is the new Ban Hammer

All of the memes and threads I've seen complaining about this are from the instances that are being defederated, rather than from within Beehaw itself. In fact if you go and read the threads where they discuss these changes it seems the majority of the Beehaw users are okay with this.

Reddit admins made a unilateral change that the majority didn't like and now we're all here on Lemmy, why is everyone suddenly acting like Lemmy instances are any different?

What was Elmo supposed to have been doing in the innocent interpretation of this image? I swear they had to have known.

Would it be relatively straightfoward to port other forums tools here?