Melpomene

Heck, running a Discord server wasn’t all roses. You take a month off and you come back to find a moderator has alienated most of the community by abusing the community rules. So yeah, building the framework AND trying to moderate has to be overwhelming.

We should remember that a lot of these services are still young, and definitely did not expect the popularity they got. I know they’re all working on scaling up and adding features, but the teams aren’t huge and they’re playing catchup with established sites (not that Reddit was ever great at moderation.)

If an instance is sharing content that another instance finds problematic, then defederation makes sense. Regardless, though, it seems like lemmynsfw is doing their due diligence to handle illegal content. We all know that porn will exist… having good stewards of those communities is vital. Punishing them for providing a (legal) porn platform is counterproductive.

Let’s see…

One instance, one magazine (which was later deleted) and 17 users. I block bigots, people posting explicit things without tags, hostile people, and folk with genitals as their profile pic… mostly.

I’m a fan of a copyright term similar to the original US copyright term. Fourteen years at the outset, with an additional seven (versus the 14) upon the payment of a fee scaled based on the revenue generated by a work (to be used to support artistic grants.) After all, if the argument is that copyright is necessary to protect artists’ economic interests, it follows that copyright holders wishing to extend should pay back into that system if they want to extend.

I shall never stop scouting out awesome secondhand things.