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101 reports and counting this morning (midwest.social)

submitted 2 years ago by seahorse@midwest.social to c/main@midwest.social

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Just an FYI, I generally ignore any reports that aren't hate speech or severe incivility. As far as spam goes as long as it's not on my server I ignore it unless it's done by one user and I can remove all their content with a few clicks.

It would be cool if one could choose where the report goes.

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[+] halcyondays@midwest.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

I noticed that starting a few weeks ago. Not really sure what the root cause is. Theories I've got:

I'm less excited about what's here now that I've been here a while, leading me to perceive stuff as lower quality
Everyone's less excited now that they've been here a while, leading to a reduction in quality
Bad actors are gaming the system

Unfortunately, it's my suspicion that all of the above are true and interplaying. However, I also landed from a web search for how to do something in Vim and found the places I used to go EVEN WORSE, which leads me to this current expectation: we're going to have to ride this out until moderation tools improve and the communities we inhabit experience more organic growth. The threadiverse experienced an explosion of users it really wasn't ready for when Reddit announced its API changes. A lot of us are here to stay, permanently, but the dips in active users of late are reflections of people who don't want to put up with bugs, or otherwise view central features of federation and defederation as anti features (I view it as an excellent thing that any instance can have !news scoped to news relevant to their instance. Midwest social can have news about the midwest, slrpnk can have news about environmentalism, and Lemmy world can have news about the world. I don't actually think all communities named "news" should aggregate together by default)