One of the major issues is replication and propagation of illegal material. Because of the way that content is mirrored and replicated across the fediverse, attacks that flood communities with things like CSAM inevitably find their way to other federated sites due to the interconnectedness of the fediverse.

The only response currently to dealing with these types of attacks, even if they’re not directed at you, is to generally defederate with the instance being attacked. This means whoever was attacking the site with CSAM has won, because they successfully made it so that the community becomes disjointed and disconnected from the rest of the fediverse with the hopes that it will die.

lemmit.online runs on it’s own instance. have you encountered other reddit archival bots?

Have you tried kbin? Same content in that it's Lemmy compatible, but slightly different sorting algorithm which (in my view) seems to result in a more rounded/balanced set of posts being promoted.
Yes there a different set of issues - it's earlier in it's development phase, but developing fast (collapsibling comments is being worked on, API (and therefore 3rd party apps) is imminent, many other improvements are developed and expecting to go live this month...

Yeah my local is just as trash as the all though?

I honestly mostly stick to subscribed.

Once a day I check all with “Top of the day”

For emerging communities I use [email protected] (which just moved today to [email protected]

I’m just about ready to give up.

Don’t force yourself if you don’t feel like it. Lemmy still have a lot of rough edges, hopefully it will get better over time, but at the moment it takes some commitment to use it as a Reddit replacement

The ultimate method is:

Cultivate your own ‘Subscribed’ feed.

Then almost every post is good.

You choose your own level of involvement.

This whole federated system is about whack-a-mole.

I hate politics, so I filter it out. Oh, look, somebody spun up a new instance! Time to filter out the same fucking communities I filtered on every other goddamn instance.

Sports is another one. I hoped everything would end up on fanaticus.social but no, we need our own communities on our own instances, making it so that there are seven communities dedicated to the same team.

Great news, communism is neither an ad nor a dictatorship!

I don’t think hexbears are leaving their communities just because you are blocking them. There’s probably just proportionally a lot more leftists around than you’re used to seeing.

That’s a bit of paranoia to think people from Hexbear are out to spread their evil ideas to polute your mind any way they can…

For starters, a way to unban people would be nice. Then, also, a way to easily see new content for their community. Like, only new content. And not see it after it has been marked as “reviewed” (except as context to unreviewed content, when unfolded). I mean, new posts, new comments, etc. With alerts. Also, sudden activity alert.

A way to match keywords, and bring up matching posts and comments.

Metrics about each user’s contributions to the community, are they new, or seasoned. Did they contribute mostly popular content or unpopular content? What words do they use most? Etc.

Compiling multiple reports for a single post/comment into one. Ignoring reports from select users.

That’s all I can think of for now.

But, essentially, a dashboard with live content, showing “old” content as “greyed out”, and relevant actions, would be really, really useful.

Edit: additionally, automated actions would be great. Answering posts/comments matching regexes with templates populated with the user’s information; automatically removing, issuing warnings, and banning (outright or after n warnings) people for specific terms, etc.

It would also really help to have automation workflows (e.g. user commented with “r-word” or “n-word”, autocomment a warning, wait X minutes/hours, or Y minutes/hours after user comments again, remove comment/ban).

This automation could come as an additional tool, to be ran under a separate account.

Love the attitude 💪 Let me know if you need help in your quest.

Report queue. Right now, reports go to a queue that both instance owners and mods use. This makes it impossible to mod because the instance owners mark items as completed before mods even had a chance to look at them.

Now, if it’s the case where it’s user abuse it’s fine for the instance owner to take care of it.

But if it’s just breaking the rule of a community, the instance owner should never even see it.

Separating the queues would help both mods and instance owners.

The ability to hide a community from All and/or Local. Some communities just aren’t appealing to the general public. And when All surfers see posts, they just downvote them into oblivion.