Folks, I need a little bit of your help. We started this little Lemmy instance without thinking much about it - lol.
So my question to you folks, what information are you missing. As I have noticed, our rules are a bit too hidden on this page. I will try to include them in the sidebar. Currently they are on our Legal page.
Is there any other information you need?
Small hint: Even if it’s very cyberpunk’ish here, you are of course allowed to create communities or share posts that have nothing to do with cyberpunk :)
Update:
Link to the rules are now in the sidebar!
They (beehaw) were having issues with gore/porn trolls posting replies to legitimate comments. Regardless of your stance on free speech, I think everyone can agree that trolling is an issue.
You can’t exactly open Lemmy at work during a quick break if you’re expecting that stuff to show up in the middle of a productive discussion.
That won’t stop the trolls, now they’ll just create burners on beehaw itself. They are hurting innocents to do exactly nothing.
It won’t stop them but it severely hinders them.
Beehaw’s registration process takes time. Rather than spin up a bunch of accounts instantly and troll rapidly (causing massive admin/moderator overhead), they’ll have to register direct with beehaw. This limits the number of accounts action has to be taken against.
Looking at it from an attackers perspective, is it worth it to wait 1+ days of going through a registration that requires the user submit answers to a questionnaire, just to troll users on beehaw? Probably not.
Until other instances defederate, your path of least resistance is to stay put. When that changes you’d reassess, and move elsewhere.
you’d create the burners en masse and then burn them one at a time.
I understand that. Beehaw has a questionnaire they require to be filled out as part of their application process.
You can filter verbatim responses (if 100 accounts have the exact same responses, they’re probably not legit) and do other things to help cut down on bot accounts being used for trolling. This is why I said it’s a severe hindrance, not a 100% perfect solution.
Additionally, they can just attach themselves to other instances anyways. It’s impossible to stop them unless you make yourself an island and make it beyond hellish to sign up. Meanwhile you’ve affected the 99.9% of good people on that instance by cutting them off. It just doesn’t make sense to me.