• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      12 天前

      Thanks for that context.

      The specific “burned out” is a common killer among folks that try this: community management

      “Well, two years in, and I cannot say this place is any better, just differently bad if not worse. Too many people here seem to think that because it’s not “corpo social media” that anything goes, and boy do some people really run with that.”

      I can’t say I blame them. People can be horrible. Managing a community also means managing the worst of people. I had a former employer that did community management of a dating site. The level of mental trauma the front line workers endured was more than I could imagine. This is also why I completely understand instance admins that follow an aggressive blocking/banning approach. Beehaw put up tall walls and defederated aplenty. Blahaj.zone actively bans based upon user activity that is even on other unrelated instances. I can’t fault either of these approaches because the alternative is dealing with the worst users en masse.

      I hope that instance owner/manager gets some of that much deserved rest.

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        10 天前

        You might have read it in reverse? He started by asking for help from additional admins, then switched to wanting to shut it down and just be done with the Fediverse completely.

        If he comes back, it will be on Beehaw or some such.

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            10 天前

            The edits may be confusing but the changed part was put above rather than below:

            Original plea below, though it’s superseded by the above.

            So while below one of the horizontal line separators he asks for help (then crosses out that text), above he adds:

            This instance is shutting down for good on 7/31/2025.

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      12 天前

      Sounds like someone wasn’t prepared for the reality of human interaction on the internet.
      I mean its completely fair to say that they don’t want to deal with it, but also what did they expect?

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        12 天前

        but also what did they expect?

        Can I ask you what the worst examples of community management looks like? As in, what do you believe would be the worst part of the job?

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          12 天前

          When you moderate a platform that the public is free to upload anything to, you will see everything. From insults to threats to gore to CSAM. Thats how the internet is. That is the worst part in my opinion, because you cant just look away, but actually have to deal with it.

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            12 天前

            I agree with you. However, I don’t think most people understand that. For most folks they haven’t been exposed to the most mentally darkest souls among us.

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              12 天前

              This really is a complicated problem, but if the fediverse wants to grow without relying on slave labor for moderation like Meta and the rest, then we have to find ways to lighten the load on moderators. Thats why creating transparent pre moderation tools like the image scanners used by many fediverse instances is so important.

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                12 天前

                Thats why creating transparent pre moderation tools like the image scanners used by many fediverse instances is so important.

                Are there any moderation tool projects going on right now one could throw a few bucks at to support it?

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                  PieFed has a number of features designed to democratize moderation - e.g. keyword filtering (allowing users to filter All, None, and even just Some content, of e.g. Musk or Trump or USA) facilitates individual end-users to curate their experiences so that mods don’t have to be as aggressive at removing things.

                  Another cool feature is the user icons - like a brand-new account on the Fediverse gets an icon next to their name, as too does someone who receives let’s say >10x more downvotes than upvotes, or a potential unregistered bot account that posts 10x more often but never replies to comments. These icons don’t remove content like a moderator would, just label it so you can choose to use that knowledge however you wish.

                  Another one is that people looking for a less controversial discussion environment can auto-hide or even auto-remove content from your feed - I have these turned off but if someone would be offended easily and want not to see things that are heavily downvoted, they have this option. Here it is the combination of the entire community and the end user deciding their personal tolerance threshold that decides what content appears in someone’s feed. There are also options to use “community members only” votes, to help separate drive-by votes from people who have not joined the community and were just scrolling All, e.g. for polls and such.

                  Oh yeah, PieFed has polls. Also flairs - both user and post. And categories of communities that are user customizable and shareable. It has a ton of new features, both related and unrelated to community moderation. Check it out!

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            12 天前

            I managed a forum for a decade, and seen everything except CSAM. You just delete it.

            It was on a .tk domain and it got suspended for content violations anyway