I spent 8 years in organisations that operated with consensus-based decision making. IRL, not larping online.

You don’t know me. Even a little bit.

Well said.

That’s a good idea!

Please see https://piefed.social/c/piefed_help/p/2025442/europe-lemmy-dbzer0-com-banned-from-piefed

I was surprised to find that dbzer0 has 290 communities.

Yes, I’m surprised by that too.

Average number of downvotes (lower attitude is a higher ratio of downvotes to upvotes. Always 1 on instances with no downvotes) when banned:

dbzer0 has 0.68 which is the same as lemmy.world or lemmy.ca.

Average age of accounts being banned, grouped by instance:

SELECT
    i.domain AS instance,
    AVG(EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (NOW() - u.created)) / (60*60*24)) AS avg_account_age_days
FROM mod_log ml
INNER JOIN "user" u ON ml.target_user_id = u.id
INNER JOIN instance i ON u.instance_id = i.id
WHERE ml.action = 'ban_user'
AND i.domain IN ('lemmy.ml', 'lemmy.dbzer0.com', 'lemmy.world', 'piefed.social',
        'lemmy.blahaj.zone', 'pawb.social', 'lemmy.ca', 'sh.itjust.works',
        'lemmy.zip', 'feddit.org', 'programming.dev', 'discuss.tchncs.de',
        'sopuli.xyz', 'lemmy.today', 'slrpnk.net', 'beehaw.org', 'jlai.lu')
GROUP BY i.domain
ORDER BY avg_account_age_days DESC;

lemmy.dbzer0.com is towards the young side but not really out of the ordinary. It’s the instances like lemmy.today, lemmy.zip and piefed.social that are unusual.

What is the modlog for, if not holding moderators to account?

It does sound like that but my eyes glazed over after a while and I couldn’t keep going. I guess we’ll never know.

If you ever need to move instances, go to https://sh.itjust.works/settings and export the settings. Then in your new instance, import the settings. You’ll be following all the same communities as before, same blocks, etc. Settings exported from Lemmy can be imported into PieFed too.

The real bummer is when you invest a lot of time and effort into creating then building up a community on the wrong instance. You can just make a new comm and tell everyone to follow it but making this kind of moving more high-fidelity is high on my list.

I can see why you’d say that because of the headings and the bullets. But I checked it and it’s human.

How the hell does an article that we can’t even read get so many upvotes.

Stuff like this really shakes my belief in the voting system.

Yep, it’s LLM-generated.

Yeah I mean you come here to promote your app and don’t even write your comments using your own fingers and we won’t hear from you again after this thread because you never intended to really be a part of the community - just get some app ideas from us.

It’s just take take take.

No wonder people react badly.

Anyone know of a gemlog to RSS tool? Then that could be fed into a RSS to fedi bot.

The author didn’t - PieFed analyses the text of posts by new accounts and flags them as ai if a LLM was used to write the text.

It’s a bot

I’ve noticed a lot of those big-in-microblogging folks have figured out what gives viral among their audience and just keep repeating it over and over in different forms.

Why? Hooked on the validation? It doesn’t seem healthy.

I am very surprised that Australia and New Zealand did not wean themselves off fossil fuels decades ago, given they are developed countries with wealth and skills and democracy.