Can we hold off on this for a bit while things settle? I personally posted a story about investor concerns over Reddit’s blackout here because of the high visibility and because beehaw.org was blocking instances. Lo and behold they have blocked us so I guess it was a good call even though their Tech community would have been a better fit. I could have also made a new community here I suppose, but again, there’s no eyes on that.

Isn't lemmy.world literally like 15 days old? Let's not be too quick to turn this into a Discord server with 50 channels and 10 users. There's nothing wrong with piling everything in one place when there's barely any content to speak of anyways.

EDIT: I just created a new community to repost these locked posts in order of most comments:

General - Lemmy.world

We need to walk before we can run. The Active filter has been stagnant so we’re barely crawling. Since /c/lemmyworld is now off limits, hopefully this will suffice for now.

https://lemmy.world/c/general

[email protected]

Thank you for stepping in to bring this under control. I'm subbed here for the admin announcements and meta discussions, and the free for all here in recent days has been irritating.

Another thought... I feel like the community name lemmy.world kind of invites confusion as to being about "the whole world Lemmy related topics". Hopefully once the mess is cleaned up the recent posts will make the topic obvious... but other instances often call their equiv community meta or something similar that invites less confusion. Adopting a more specific name might reduce the confusion and moderation load. If that happened, I dunno what happens to this community. Maybe just shut it down, its free for all form seems unsustainable.

I'm a strong believer in moderation should be invisible to most users. The collective, regular participating users ultimately decide what should be in the sidebar/rules, not the mods. Uses evolve and we must evolve with them. I mean the vast majority of us are here because of the issue of authoritarianism. If everyone wants to use this as an r/all, it is not hard to come up with a better descriptive name for a new sub to support the instance info better.

There is far too little total participation at this point to go making major controversial changes that will likely disenfranchise and reduce participation. We should be doing everything possible to bolster participation of anyone willing.

One issue I have is that I believe that !lemmyworld is the only default subscribed community when a new user signs up. If the intent of this community is to just talk about the instance, maybe it should not be default subscribed, or maybe it should not be the only default subscribed community. Can the initial default subscribed communities be setup to guide a new user?

Hello and welcome :)

I'm pretty new myself, you plan seems fair to me, but I have a question: is there some other place that would be more suitable than this one to post help for new users?

I ask this because, in my opinion (as a reddit refugee myself), this community would seem the first place where new users seek help, the fediverse is very confusing for us used to centralized platforms and new people do need help to not be discouraged and leave.

Do you know if there's any plan to create a sort of lemmy.world help or support community to "free" this one from off-topic?

Awesome, glad this is finally getting cleaned up, I wanted to hear about announcements, but it was getting so spammy so fast I unsubscribed and was just checking in from the local feed. I'm going to resubscribe.

You and the other mods are doing great, keep up the good work on this server. A lot of reddit refugees (also myself) are joining here on lemmy. Especially once the end of the month or July 1st reddits 3rd party app wont be available anymore.

Hello.

Thanks for making this post and letting us know with transparency what's going on your mind and with this community. :)

I do have a question with you being a moderator: @[email protected] posted here regarding communities with abandoned moderation. I'm starting to encounter that as well. This comment mentioned reaching out to the mods, and I'd hate to do that when that isn't the path forward.

Can you write a guideline for mods in this instance so that we know how to resolve issues going forward? This will help with this instance maturing as we go. :) Maybe a mod only community where we can communicate with the instance owners/mods?

Congrats @sun-spider and good luck with modding. I appreciate the concise intention-action-justification-exception statement you provided. Nice!

Gonna be completely honest - I joined this server because it was open and recommended on joinlemmy. Shortly after I saw beehive he defederated this server and the concern I have is others will follow suit. I know I could easily join another server, but before I do that, is this one going to make changes to get back on beehive’s good graces and prevent defederation elsewhere?

Thank you! My feed gets overwhelmed with lemmy.world posts, so I have to filter through a lot of personally uninteresting posts to get to my subscribed communities. I appreciate the effort 😀

You and the other mods are doing great, keep up the good work on this server. A lot of reddit refugees (also myself) are joining here on lemmy. Especially once the end of the month or July 1st reddits 3rd party app wont be available anymore.

Why can't we just let the users decide what gets visibility vs what doesn't?

I know it may be a stupid question. The problem with Reddit was it become to moderated to the point if you didn't read the fine print your post would get removed.

I think users simply agree what is relevant to the community and what isn't and will vote accordingly.

If the content is obviously NSFW take it down, and if they are spamming obviously ban them and remove the spam.

I really would hate to Lemmy become overmoderated.

Gonna be completely honest - I joined this server because it was open and recommended on joinlemmy. Shortly after I saw beehive he defederated this server and the concern I have is others will follow suit. I know I could easily join another server, but before I do that, is this one going to make changes to get back on beehive’s good graces and prevent defederation elsewhere?

I don't think people will stop posting general topics here, maybe you guys have to find another way.

Now I get it! I thought there's a problem with the server and wondering why most of the posts on my feed are from this community. Haha turns out people are just posting a lot here.