kolektyw_szmer

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[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It does not. Other then running a private/closed instance there's really no way to limit input from anyone with an account.

 

We had a random post in an anarchist community on our Polish speaking instance. Some 45 English speaking accounts came out of nowhere to downvote it, with a single one engaging in discussion. None of them were ever active on the instance, nor particularly in this community. Seems they just followed every crosspost.
Mods could not really do anything about it, so the accounts were banned from the entire instance by admins, as this was considered hostile behaviour against our community.
Which rises the question; should people be able to vote, end specially downvote, in communities they are not a part of? Maybe this could be at least a setting?

Another interesting concept that came from the discussion over that was "constructive downvote" - requirement of commenting why one downvotes a post.

[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

So, are the other 2 accounts who upvoted this bot's or just stupid?

[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 6 points 1 year ago

We're working on that, but not there yet.

[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 2 points 1 year ago

It could be a page on the instance with half based on a form to be filled out in the admin pages, and the other half with Lemmy funding.

[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A shared donation page might encourage them to promote it. One where there would be all lemmy dev funding options, but admins could also add theirs. Sounds like a low hanging fruit.

We'll also discuss announcing a cut of our donations going upstream in our collective.

[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 3 points 1 year ago

Anything other than the custom emoji one? We're one of the oldest instances, running with limited resources and update when we either have the time and energy for that, or when we have to.

As for spam: we block spam accounts from other instances before their own mods nearly daily, including from the biggest ones. Chill.

[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 2 points 1 year ago

It is, to the point of developing it's own deployment system to be able to run lemmy on bare metal in a way we see fit, as opposed to the unpredictable cycle and frustrating process of using the main packages.

[–] kolektyw_szmer@szmer.info 2 points 1 year ago

We've just published a polish translation of this, with some minor changes; https://szmer.info/post/356383