This is an opportunity for any users, server admins, or interested third parties to ask anything they’d like to @[email protected] and I about Lemmy. This includes its development and future, as well as wider issues relevant to the social media landscape today.

Note: This will be the thread tmrw, so you can use this thread to ask and vote on questions beforehand.

Original Announcement thread

  • possibly a cat@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Hey Menu, I don’t know if you were one of the ones that downvoted me or not, but I was wondering if you might be able to help me understand why people think the option to shadowban is such a bad idea?

    Edit: What is going on here?! Someone please have mercy and explain…

    • BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I think you got downvoted because people were not looking for a way to make it ok for the racist instances to stay on join-lemmy.

      I am not really familiar with shadowbannig, but users could just check their posts from another instance and find out about the ban.

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        1 year ago

        Thank you for replying!

        users could just check their posts from another instance and find out about the ban.

        That wouldn’t be the point, but I don’t believe anyone cares to hear the details. No problem, I understand that.

        people were not looking for a way to make it ok for the racist instances to stay on join-lemmy.

        Neither was I, of course. Thank you for this peek into the mentality.