Kia ora!

What’s the plans for moderation on this instance? I guess there’s probably going to be a bit of a flood from the NZ-oriented subreddits and this seems like a smart landing place for them.

Lemmy.ml apparently has owners with weird political beliefs, and this is putting a bunch of people off. Is there going to be a set of rules/CoC for this instance?

Also, servers cost money. Any plans for adding a way for users to support the server?

Thanks for setting it up!

  • jeffEnglish
    27·
    1 year ago

    A bank account to chuck donations would be nice, but not rules. They just set this up and there is no problem. Why would you want rules? You’d just end up with another Reddit. Do you need rules for a pub or an outdoor cafe table that has 10 people? The last thing a new website needs, is a debate around what rules should exist. Here, have a fake hall monitor badge and go back to reddit ;-)

    I’m going to visit lemmy.ml now, to see what these weird political beliefs are. Must be pretty good if you didn’t elaborate :) maybe it involves area 51 and little grey men.

    • DaveMAEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      The ML in lemmy.ml (and also lemmygrad.ml) stands for Marxism–Leninism, of whom supporters of this political philosophy were the majority of Lemmy users until reddit started to migrate here a week ago. The founder and lead developer of Lemmy is a supporter of this philosophy, and many people are avoiding Lemmy because of it.

      However, in my view it’s not a reason not to use Lemmy. Lemmy is Open Source, and uses a protocol common across other projects (such as Mastodon, a federated twitter-like platform - you can actually subscribe to Lemmy communities from Mastodon, though I believe the reverse doesn’t yet work). Because of this, many other developers with all sorts of political views have joined in development, and even if the core development team takes Lemmy in a direction that the community doesn’t want, the code is open source so a group of developers can fork (copy) the code and build it in the direction they want. And the two different versions can talk to each other because everything is running on the same protocol.