Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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  • Moderators certainly got involved in some of the cross-posts of the earlier thread, at least a dozen comments were removed on beehaw and a couple people got banned from the awful.systems thread.

    It seems as if the only way you’d ever say there is NO racism on Lemmy is if there was no need to moderate racist posts - if there were no racist people present. That’s a much higher bar than “have you SEEN racism”, which requires racist posts to be left unmoderated for a substantial amount of time so that many people can see them and then provide the “quotes and links” you are soliciting. It feels like you’ve shifted the goalposts a bit, now.


  • Reasons why racism on Lemmy is less of an issue:

    • There are only a few Lemmy instances - those that harbor racism are easily defederated from.
    • Downvotes make bad content easy to detect, even if not reported.
    • Content is posted into communities, which have moderators. Hashtags on Mastodon are un-moderated.
    • Unlike mastodon, replies are sent to all instances so visibility is higher. No hiding in obscurity.
    • Federated networks tend to have a central hub - Lemmy.world is well moderated, unlike mastodon.social.