Hello World,
following feedback we have received in the last few days, both from users and moderators, we are making some changes to clarify our ToS.
Before we get to the changes, we want to remind everyone that we are not a (US) free speech instance. We are not located in US, which means different laws apply. As written in our ToS, we’re primarily subject to Dutch, Finnish and German laws. Additionally, it is our discretion to further limit discussion that we don’t consider tolerable. There are plenty other websites out there hosted in US and promoting free speech on their platform. You should be aware that even free speech in US does not cover true threats of violence.
Having said that, we have seen a lot of comments removed referring to our ToS, which were not explicitly intended to be covered by our ToS. After discussion with some of our moderators we have determined there to be both an issue with the ambiguity of our ToS to some extent, but also lack of clarity on what we expect from our moderators.
We want to clarify that, when moderators believe certain parts of our ToS do not appropriately cover a specific situation, they are welcome to bring these issues up with our admin team for review, escalating the issue without taking action themselves when in doubt. We also allow for moderator discretion in a lot of cases, as we generally don’t review each individual report or moderator action unless they’re specifically brought to admin attention. This also means that content that may be permitted by ToS can at the same time be violating community rules and therefore result in moderator action. We have added a new section to our ToS to clarify what we expect from moderators.
We are generally aiming to avoid content organizing, glorifying or suggesting to harm people or animals, but we are limiting the scope of our ToS to build the minimum framework inside which we all can have discussions, leaving a broader area for moderators to decide what is and isn’t allowed in the communities they oversee. We trust the moderators judgement and in cases where we see a gross disagreement between moderatos and admins’ criteria we can have a conversation and reach an agreement, as in many cases the decision is case-specific and context matters.
We have previously asked moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification when this was suggested in context of murder or other violent crimes. Following a discussion in our team we want to clarify that we are no longer requesting moderators to remove content relating to jury nullification in the context of violent crimes when the crime in question already happened. We will still consider suggestions of jury nullification for crimes that have not (yet) happened as advocation for violence, which is violating our terms of service.
As always, if you stumble across content that appears to be violating our site or community rules, please use Lemmys report functionality. Especially when threads are very active, moderators will not be able to go through every single comment for review. Reporting content and providing accurate reasons for reports will help moderators deal with problematic content in a reasonable amount of time.
Who else has the Alexandrite front end working? It is the only one I have found that just works and doesn’t show down votes. I’d rather have the option to ignore them entirely. The Photon front end doesn’t work for me, likely due to JS or some other aspect that is not straightforward in a white list firewall. I don’t use any apps for anything that can be done in a browser. I have tried a couple of other front ends and have accounts on some other instances, but something about this setup on a-dot-world is the only doom scroll I actually enjoy. The way block fails to actually block and delete doesn’t delete are both major factors pushing me away from Lemmy too after what seems to be a major uptick in negativity here lately.
that surely wasn’t intended to be paused for an extended period. I wasn’t actively aware of this until now. usually we update all interfaces automatically shortly after releases.
i assume there was an issue at some point where the update broke something and it was forgotten to follow up on that later. I’ll have a look at that later.
Can it be self hosted on a local network safely. I have no chops in internet stuff or servers beyond spinning up Mainsail/Klipper, a basic OpenWRT router, and Gradio mods to Oobabooga Textgen. I have a PC I want to use for network attached storage and a basic LLM, so if Photon can run like that, it would be a good time for me to try it. I’m just not in a position to pay for internet services like a domain and all that. It is also intimidating when I’ve got no one to really help me learn IRL and have never found the ideal entry point I can wrap my head around. That’s why I just whitelist. At least I can’t write a script wrong and nmap the internet or some sketchy download can’t dial out.
I would love to mod the code of a front end to make down votes a toggled option where I only use them for modded communities.
