Gone Quill

Since this post was linked from another thread, @Difficult_Bit_1339, you’ve unfairly characterized @socialjusticewizard as a beehaw.org user coming here “trying to stir up shit” as you’ve phrased it. Their sh.itjust.works account predates their beehaw.org account by two weeks. This post, the one we’re commenting on right now, is NOT clearly labeled as being the rules for vote posts. It’s just named “changes.” You should consider putting the rules for vote posts in the sidebar and in the vote posts themselves.

If you want to label me as a beehaw.org user coming here “trying to stir up shit,” too, so be it. At least my first account was from beehaw.org, and I came here looking to see sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world posts. At this point, I’m entirely done with this instance based on the overall handling of this situation and will be using my @Quill7513@slrpnk.net account for the purposes this account was originally meant to serve. Here is some advice I have, as a sort of exit interview.

1. Be nicer. Come on. The way you moderate this community will influence the way this entire instance operates. Your rudeness and dismissiveness sets the tone for the entire instance and how people will perceive users with @sh.itjust.works as part of their identity
2. Define an executive process for defederation, just as you already have an executive process for moderation. Defederation is part of moderation and 1 month is not a fast turn around for this sort of situation
3. Increase the transparency of the audit scripts you’re using to tally votes by linking a link to a git repo containing the script. I think it’s fair to say that your automated script for what the vote talley is and what someone reading through the vote sees as being the vote results are quite different

Then why use a platform with federation / defederation as a core feature? Why not Nostr or SSB? Why activitypub?

No. People like tits.

Hey. That’s not fair. Safari deserves quite a bit of credit for being spyware

Thanks! I was able to find it after that. When I was searching I kept getting “Ethernet” even if I quote wrapped “nethernet”

In real life, you can filter by not hanging out with people who speak abusively about and to you. You can walk away. And yeah, sometimes those abusive people follow you. So a lot of them seek online support communities as a retreat from the abuse. Saying “they should just toughen up” misses on what their daily life is like, and that no one wants to be subject to constant unending abuse

Hey, I couldn’t find any information about the nethernet. Care to send a link my way? (And maybe post it to a You Should Know community?)

I do not! I think I’m gonna learn some internet history soon

All of these platforms go through phases of decay. First the power users and top quality moderators leave. They do it for a variety of reasons. Many will be for philosophical reasons. Others will just want to find a platform that works before the changes roll out so they can get comfortable.

The second wave is mostly more power users. They move when the actual change rolls out. These are largely people who wanted to have their last hurrah and had already decided to leave. The majority though are just people who hadn’t heard about the change or who thought it wouldn’t impact them as much as it winds up doing. This wave will see an abrupt spike, and then a long swell as more people realize how the changes impact them.

The third wave is where we see the rank and file regular contributors move. This group stuck around because they just wanted to stay connected with their existing communities and for various reasons thought things would get better. Maybe they thought the platform would reverse course. Maybe they believed the platform owners promises that the changes would come with improvements later. Better first party moderation tools, accessibility improvements, better performance, better first party apps, whatever it is they were waiting for that ultimately never materializes.

The final wave is the lurkers / content consumers. These guys never cared. They just went where the content was. Now that all three prior groups are gone, wherever they went, that’s where this group goes. This was me when I realized everything on Stumbleupon was just from Reddit the previous day