You can make or follow feeds on Piefed, allowing you to separate out your subscriptions.

They mean that a lot of users might go into their settings to block lemmy.world for themselves.

Yeah people may choose as individuals to block it, but it’s not instance-level blocked by most instances - that’s what I mean.

Some instances have different policies of conduct. Lemmy.world is a pretty general instance, so it won’t really impact most people.

Very few do that.

True. I am just mostly trying to make a record of this stuff for the future. Obviously in the event of these tools existing, mods wouldn’t have to turn them on.

I definitely think there needs to be some rough guide on making your community federated and then advertising it effectively so communities can get that early kick.

You think that’s literally always the case? Really?

Yes, although communities on here already roll with some of these rules. Some don’t want double link posting or want to ban specific urls or specific keywords - they just have to do it manually. This can cause mod burnout over time.

Yes, piefed is independent in the same way as lemmy is.

Piefed has tools that Lemmy does not: Flairs, user flairs, hashtags, custom feeds/topics, scheduled posts, poll posting, events - word filters for users.

http://piefed.blahaj.zone/

May I suggest instead donating to the Piefed project if you wish to donate at all - given its faster development cycle currently.

And since you’re from blahaj, your own instance also has a piefed.blahaj variant.

Well I’m thinking in terms of how to ‘shore up’ the fediverse, so to speak - to make it able to cope with potential future growth. I do think all of the examples in my OP that I’ve given are pretty general and one or more of them would be implemented by most communities the moment they were able to do so.

Well yeah Piefed actually already does this. But some people will just ignore it even if everyone uses Piefed. I would make use of blocking repeat-url posting and have it so anyone who ignores it has their post automatically removed or blocked.

To be clear, I’m not thinking about Lemmy here specifically. But in any case, however its done - either via the settings, or an easy to access official or officially endorsed mod-bot - access and knowledge to and of these tools should be easy and well-known for community owners.

If you need tools, find them. If they don’t exist, create them. If you don’t have the skills or time, then don’t volunteer.

Not every would-be moderator of a community has the skills or knowhow to make and/or host these things. Even Reddit now, at its size, lacks some capable tools not consistently covered in automod tools.

I suppose not. Although I imagine if the Fediverse gets more users it will happen more and more. The current mod tools are not really up to the job as it increases in activity.

That would have been removed by the r/europe moderators, not reddit.

Got banned. I don’t even know why. I wasn’t aware of any activity being on there.

Interesting. I didn’t know it was active really. People tend to use r/fediverse or r/redditalternatives.

PieFed let you follow/block keywords, but that’s not the same as robust, community-wide topic blocking. Imagine collaborative, booru-style tagging across posts so blocking a tag reliably removes all content using it.

This would require a fediverse platform that has a built-in, accurate tagging system. So no under that basis.

I feel like many people who went to Bluesky were desperate for it to work and grow, rather than necessarily believing it would work and grow and in some cases - weren’t even people who the Twitter style even appealed to. They just went there to try and do a bit of damage to Twitter. This is likely why its now slowly losing activity.

I signed up to Bluesky not too long after it surged. And I made a few comments, but quickly just… didn’t have anything say. It’s just a “shout into the ether” site like Twitter - but smaller, and no nazis. That’s a good thing in itself, but in an ideal world I would never really use it.

Sorry. Then. Typo.

I was just wondering why you seem to bother if the Fediverse is going nowhere according to you.