I happen to like it very much.

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    People singing praises, but it needs to improve, i shouldnt need another website to find communities; also the state of fractured communities with same name that dilute content.

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      On the flip side, major communities being hosted on defederated instances is a concern.

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          I know beehaw defederated from lemmyworld and they have some pretty big communities on there. That’s just an example that I know of because my first account was beehaw. I’m sure there are others.

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            Ah makes sense

            I can still see beehaw content because they didn’t defed with lemmy.ca, but I’ve avoided posting to their communities. They feel like gated communities, which wasn’t productive to community building.

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              i just blocked beehaw communities because i don’t want to accidentally get into a discussion there. If they want to isolate themselves, that’s fine, they can exist as their own little thing.

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      Which is great to do, we can like something and want it to improve at the same time.

      Better blocking feels like a priority for me because it would quell most of the defederation issues.

      • instance only defederates from illegal content / scams
      • users block instances, communities, and users they don’t want
      • recommended block lists that users can import (from the instance, from somewhere else, etc.)
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        This also reminds me that Lemmy needs better mod tools. I think that’s part of the reason Beehaw defederated

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          Oh for sure, I think the only reason some communities are clean is because they aren’t that big yet.

          I’ve only had a handful of threads spiral out of control, and it was a mess to clean up each one. The button to remove something is right next to the button to make someone a mod. Also once something is removed, it’s inaccessible to everyone including the mods. At one point I removed something and couldn’t ban the user because the comment was gone. It was a spam bot though so I got them a little while later.

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            Another issue: blocking users will block all their content, even if they post in comms that you moderate. So if you’re a mod you need to avoid the feature, otherwise the user that you blocked might go rogue in the comms that you mod and you’ll only see it after it’s too late.

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          This also reminds me that Lemmy needs better mod tools.

          What if “we” (users in general, specially mods) created some communal wishlist in some highly visible space, exclusively for mod features? Not just for the Lemmy devs, but for anyone who wants to code a third party tool.

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      Im going to say it. I’m going to plug sync, again. Sync has this cool feature where it includes a list of instances and communities on them. It’s a very cool and handy option.