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/0 Governance @lemmy.dbzer0.com Unruffled [they/them] @lemmy.dbzer0.com New rule proposal for the Golden Rules - Voting post
Ahoy me hearties!
To run alongside the discussion on the simplified Golden Rules for the instance, I decided to post a separate proposal for a single rule addition.
The proposed rule is: Off topic comments and downvote trolling to protest the use of genAI images is not permitted in our communities.
Edit2: The community feedback has been strongly positive, thanks for all your feedback. Notably, quite a few folks would like it to be more generic, to cater for future scenarios as well. So taking that into account, and adding the rationale for the change, I came up with:
To protect our communities, community members and mods from abuse: no comment trolling, dogpiling, or downvote trolling is allowed.
I hope that works for most folks, and please feel free to leave more comments if you can suggest an improved wording. I do read them all.
It would only apply to communities where GenAI art is not disallowed by the community rules, so mods can opt in or out.
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/0 Governance @lemmy.dbzer0.com fxomt @lemmy.dbzer0.com LockedRewritten application/golden rules (for simplicity) - Sense check
The vote has closed, thanks for participating everyone!
Hey y'all. I've gotten lots of feedback from some users (mainly r/GenP users) about the application, so i've reformatted/rewritten them to make it clearer.
Do note: Only language that's corrected here is english. Nothing else
Important note: Read the golden rules. and there are THREE (3) questions you must not miss.
Appeal rooms:
- https://matrix.to/#/#div0-appeals:matrix.org (Matrix. for everyone)
- https://rvlt.gg/xtEPAnXg (Revolt. For r/GenP users specifically)
:::spoiler Registration application in English
Thanks for your interest in joining dbzer0! Note that while we're anarchists, you don't have to be one. Please read the golden rules beforehand.
Golden rules
- Don’t be shitty. i.e. telling people to kill themselves, or [bad-jacketing](https://anarchist-archive.org/library/en/anonymous-not-liking-someone-doesnt-mean-theyre-a-cop-on-bad-jacket
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Hey peeps, do you have some lemmy instances that you think are cool? We maintain an endorsement list on the fediseer which has gotten a bit stale lately so I think it would be cool to endorse some of the new instances popping up to help raise awareness about their existence and reward admins doing a good job.
I thought I'd just add some myself, but why take all the responsibility myself when we can crowdsource it?
So if you have any fediverse instances (not just lemmy!) you think our instance should be endorsing, please do mention them here, along with the reasons why (see the other examples in our endorsements).
governance type: sense check
thelemmy.club's Nazi bar problem: defederation worthy?
FINAL UPDATE
@bdonvr, admin of The Lemmy Club has, in my opinion, responded in good faith to the concerns raised in this post, and so I have withdrawn my proposal for defederation. In summary:
- They will no longer be allowing conservative/right wing communities on their instance
- A couple of accounts were banned ( marathon and Bernard )
- "realcaseyrollins decided to voluntarily close /c/news@thelemmy.club, /c/censorshipnews@thelemmy.club, and /c/opeds@thelemmy.club."
Personally, I think this is just about the ideal outcome, and I hope this will convince folks to give The Lemmy Club another chance.
The Lemmy Club is currently suffering from "The Nazi Bar" problem. All of their top communities are run by three right-wingers as illustrated below.
The Lemmy
Looking for a new instance admin
Hey peeps, after hitting the frontpage of reddit, we got a good amount of new users on our instance, to the point where our admin team was struggling to keep up with the application forms.
More users means more issues and therefore more reports, so we are looking to onboard one more admin to the instance. If you are interested, these are the requirements:
Requirements
- You must be an anarchist, and enthusiastically endorse the instance policies and our anarchist code of conduct. For example this means we also expect you to also be pro-piracy and not hostile to GenAI.
- You must have been on this instance for at least 3 months, to ensure you understand our culture. Hopefully you've been a lemmy poster as well as we expect our admins to dogfood our service. If you were already a comm admin, even better!
- At this poi
Background:
August 26, 2024 a dbzer0 instance admin instance banned a user, @marcie@lemmy.ml per "Sanctioned mod due to slanderous & unsubstantiated community ban and zero response to appeal. Ban to be lifted once issue is resolved."
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https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=9924804
From what I could gather, she received the instance ban after banning an instance member from a community (!transgender@lemmy.ml). Whether or not the community ban is justified doesn't really seem to be an issue here, an instance ban is an extreme response to a community ban and is inherently an unbalanced action that has vastly different ramifications. This means that no local users can interact with or see the instance banned user compared to one local user not being able to interact with one community on
Community vote on banning X/Twitter links aka "Twitter in the shitter?"
UPDATE: Proposal approved, see https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36484194 for policy change announcement.
Ahoy me hearties!
We were thinking this might be a good test run topic for instance voting in our !div0_governance@lemmy.dbzer0.com community. Please be patient with us if anything breaks or isn't working properly. Feedback is welcome.
The voting topic
Given the current political backdrop and recent video of Elon Musk performing clearly identifiable Nazi salutes at the Presidential inauguration, some communities have started banning all links to X/Twitter. A couple of examples I noticed yesterday:
**The vote is on whether our instance should follow suit and implement an instance-wide ban on X/Twitter links in pos
Affiliations recalculated and all affiliation flairs added!
As mentioned in the previous post, the Governance community is now live. I have refactored my affiliations lookup script to be more accurate and have added everyone's application affiliation to their threativore flairs.
I want to say, y'all are pretty creative and keep coming up with favorites I've never heard before. I still have quite a lot of uncategorized answers to go through, but most of you have been assigned a tag.
As a way to reward people who are coming up with unique answers, the first person who registers with a new favorite, also gets the
first emoji assigned.A few of you seem to mention people who are neither anarchists, pirates nor foss (advocates). Usually, and unless that person is a complete reactionary or PoS, we let you through. However