This dude posts a wildly racist meme of Michelle Obama. I report the post. Funnily enough, the racist post is posted by the mod of dankmemes, dankchristianmemes and some other shit hole.
Said mod then starts sending abusive transphobic messages to me. Try to report the user. Nothing happens when I hit the button.
Shit like this is why Lemmy isn’t a viable alternative yet. We need to do better and be better.
Lemmy and Kbin have both seen a huge influx of people in the past few weeks, so admins of each instance are struggling to keep up. For the most part, the admins are working for free, in addition to whatever their day jobs are.
Having said that, I’d report those magazines / communities to the admin of the instance for action, understanding that right now, they’re buried in requests, questions, and complaints. If the issue is an entire instance, well, defederation is an option.
FWIW, I was threatened on Reddit more than once with actual murder… people threatening to come to my house and kill me. Reddit’s general response was to… delete the chat message in question as a “resolution” to my complaint. AFAIK, that was the extent of their action. I at least have the impression that abusive users will be removed, though it might take a bit given the incredible influx of new users.
I am sorry that they’re harassing you though. Noting to block those magazines / communities.
Do mods see who report what? Because that means I won’t report anything. I stopped reporting on Facebook groups because of that. I stopped reporting on Reddit when Reddit started sending me feedback on my reports.
Yes and I find it very strange. The few reports I’ve seen on my communities show who reported, what was reported, and the reason given
Edit: also as a mod I feel that knowing who reported something isn’t necessary? The only thing I can truly think of is so mods can do something about report spam or false reporting, but to me a better solution would be having it hidden to mods, and visible to admins if it needs to be investigated for report abuse/spam/etc.?
Mods are moderating, they should know who reports what. Anonymous reports don’t work and lead to abuse.
We can’t pretend this is just a Lemmy issue. But I agree with your sentiment.
Isn’t the recourse to ask the instance admin to intervene?
Yup. Except the report button goes nowhere.
Try doing it via the browser instead of using the app and it should work!
Wouldn’t the report just go to the moderator, who can disregard it?
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This is a recourse. You start your own node and block the offending node. Aren’t there features that let you block individual users?
Should I set up my own smtp server too? What about dns?
This is the biggest problem the fediverse has. Because it was set up by people who live/are good at IT it’s just assumed that everyone is. It’s open source; don’t like something, just code your own version! Unfortunately, that will lock out around 98% of all users and we (Lemmy/kbin) will just be some backwater circkejerk of interests which overlap with programming as a hobby.
I think the mods are currently drinking from a firehose and, if we want to be part of the solution, the best thing we as users can do is be patient and thick skinned until the assholes are brought under control. That really could mean just abandoning a big server like Lemmy.world for something quieter like sopuli.xyz or a defederated instance like beehaw.
There is no karma here, moving to a new server and deleting the old server account should be viewed as a tactical win. If you want to get in the mud and pursue the troll in their own instance, make an account there and plug in your angry keyboard. If you just want to find a place to be comfortable, find it and stonewall that asshole. You’re not really losing any reputation or, one will presume, friend base since you’ll probably subscribe to the nicer communities using the same public username when you move instances.
I wish you all the best.
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I got banned from all of reddit for 3 days because i reported a post that broke a rule, few hours later that post was removed for braking such rule, so i got banned for helping