I just waded into Doctor Who reddit for some tasty speculation after watching “Wish world”, and I really hope the people buying into [edit: recasting rumours] will be proven wrong by Saturday. Posting this as testimony that this was an actual thing people believed.

I also hope Lemmy spoiler tags work as intended in the wider Fediverse… [Edit: turns out this was a rubbish time to learn that they do, in fact, not]

  • Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMEnglish
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    7 days ago

    That’s very unfortunate to hear - I agree that there it probably a different core philosophy between Lemmy and Mastodon (I can’t speak to other platforms), where Lemmy is considered more of a “public bulletin board” where all content can be read by anyone, and most measures against harassement or other bad behaviour is left to the mod/admin teams (insert long rant about small instances being a good thing here).

    This is the first I’ve heard of blocked users being able to vote on stuff, though.

    • haverholm@kbin.earthOP
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      7 days ago

      blocked users being able to vote on stuff

      There was a post up recently to that effect: https://lemm.ee/post/64502083

      I first thought this was an Mbin-specific issue, and the developers were kind enough to open an issue based on my report: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/issues/1596

      I agree completely with your point about smaller instances, but even then mods and admins are limited to the features of the software, and the considerations that developers have or have not made making it.

      Mastodon are no saints either, but at leadt they’re erring from a foundation that I agree a lot more with.

      • Value Subtracted@startrek.websiteMEnglish
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        7 days ago

        Fair enough, I don’t want to try too hard to change anyone’s mind on issues like this, because I completely respect the perspective.

        What I can say is that the admin team of this instance has zero tolerance (if I could make it less than zero, I would) for any kind of harassing behaviour.

        I’ve also been reasonably pleased with the way Lemmy’s tools have expanded and evolved over the past couple of years, so I would never write anything off for the future.

        And in more extreme cases of cross-instance abuse…there’s more behind-the-scenes communication between instance admins than you may think!