You can blacklist instances on piefed as a user.

You can use instances like lemmy.zip and I believe lemmy.sdf.org if you want almost no blocking.

There used to be more topical themed instances but some shut down

Lemmy.world, piefed.social, lemmy.zip are all perfectly fine fits here. Hexbear and lemmygrad are blacklisted by most of the fediverse, beehaw does not allow new community creation by randoms anyway iirc

piefed - no idea but judging by how people talk about it, Lemmy is clearly becoming too mainstream so some people feel they need to move into further obscurity.

No. Piefed is simply another piece of software with different tools that reads lemmy instances. It’s not an instance in itself. piefed.social, which I am posting from - is the largest piefed (and original) instance.

I really like Lemmy on paper but good god this instance drama is off-putting.

You barely notice if you don’t follow certain communities.

which I find silly altogether because people are specifically hyping fediverse because “iTs AlL coNnEcTeD” and “you are in charge of your feed”. I’m contemplating running one or two communities (and I’m totally fine with them being small and slow) but I don’t know where I dare to make them because apparently I’d have to be paying far closer attention to the nitty gritty of every bit of instance drama to make sure I’m not on “the wrong side”.

What are the communities you’re wanting to make?

The instance would just get defederated within 24 hours by 90% of the fediverse.

What? What instances?

No, he’s pointing out the severe issues with the system at scale. If someone is stalking you on Reddit, that sounds more like a “this user should be banned” issue.

They can be very trolly, but also people very much dislike the pervasive ideology on there.

I thought lemmynsfw was sort of ‘mass-delisted’ by most instances? In that users from lemmynsfw.com can interact with the wider fediverse but the communities on there don’t display out to other communities - because the issue is the communities there, and not the users.

https://lemmy.world/communities

You can set the filter from “Local” to “All” and you’ll find a direct community search on the side.

True. I am just mostly trying to make a record of this stuff for the future. Obviously in the event of these tools existing, mods wouldn’t have to turn them on.

I definitely think there needs to be some rough guide on making your community federated and then advertising it effectively so communities can get that early kick.

You think that’s literally always the case? Really?

Yes, although communities on here already roll with some of these rules. Some don’t want double link posting or want to ban specific urls or specific keywords - they just have to do it manually. This can cause mod burnout over time.

Yes, piefed is independent in the same way as lemmy is.

Piefed has tools that Lemmy does not: Flairs, user flairs, hashtags, custom feeds/topics, scheduled posts, poll posting, events - word filters for users.

http://piefed.blahaj.zone/

May I suggest instead donating to the Piefed project if you wish to donate at all - given its faster development cycle currently.

And since you’re from blahaj, your own instance also has a piefed.blahaj variant.

Well I’m thinking in terms of how to ‘shore up’ the fediverse, so to speak - to make it able to cope with potential future growth. I do think all of the examples in my OP that I’ve given are pretty general and one or more of them would be implemented by most communities the moment they were able to do so.

Well yeah Piefed actually already does this. But some people will just ignore it even if everyone uses Piefed. I would make use of blocking repeat-url posting and have it so anyone who ignores it has their post automatically removed or blocked.

To be clear, I’m not thinking about Lemmy here specifically. But in any case, however its done - either via the settings, or an easy to access official or officially endorsed mod-bot - access and knowledge to and of these tools should be easy and well-known for community owners.

If you need tools, find them. If they don’t exist, create them. If you don’t have the skills or time, then don’t volunteer.

Not every would-be moderator of a community has the skills or knowhow to make and/or host these things. Even Reddit now, at its size, lacks some capable tools not consistently covered in automod tools.

I suppose not. Although I imagine if the Fediverse gets more users it will happen more and more. The current mod tools are not really up to the job as it increases in activity.

That happens on Reddit even with singular communities. Sure, maybe some topics will come up multiple times.

Yeah, but Reddit has a much larger userbase and in some cases it’s good that topics can be split across multiple communities. The Fediverse has the opposite problem.