Not commenting on the validity of your ban or not, but if you get instance banned on Lemmy - the system will automatically directly ban you from all communities on that instance that you have previously commented on. So it looks like a mass community ban.

Quite hard to enforce that given even with growth, it would be federated.

It might be hard to enforce for every instance but even if only 1% of instance admins get strongly worded letters threatening fines if they don’t follow the law, I guarantee you that many more will just decide that it’s not worth the risk, they close their instances and we end up with even fewer users than before.

Lol, Ofcom still are stuck trying to ban 4chan. You overestimate their ability.

They don't need to lawyer up if they have no presence in the UK. They can just send them a meme picture of a hamster.

Lemm.ee shut down for entirely unrelated reasons.

Ofcom don't know what the Fediverse is.

Interesting. I didn't know it was active really. People tend to use r/fediverse or r/redditalternatives.

I think the difference there is that there's no evidence of government meddling and intervention. Whereas here, there is.

It is what it is. I have no idea how to incite a new wave short of Reddit shitting itself in some way

Piefed already automatically has a toggle in its settings that can be activated. On piefed.social any account that self-deletes within 24 hours has all of its posts purged.

This is a lemmy problem.

They launched without any community mod tools beyond "delete post" for their entire run. The site predictably got overrun as site admins had to bear all the weight.

What do you mean "another migration"? Piefed and Lemmy communities and instances can be viewed from both.

Piefed groups comment boxes from crossposts into one post. So no matter which crosspost you're looking at, you'll see all responses.

Have any of Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord implemented age-checks in Mississippi then?

If not, why is Bluesky the only one going dark there?

I'm not banned, but I'm here because Reddit essentially in active decay. It's old. All the community names are taken. Some taken years ago. The site is too big to be effectively maintained by admins, leaving many communities badly-run, half-abandoned and being swamped by bots, trolls and whatever else. You can't grow anything there.

You can on the Fediverse. Community discoverability is by far much better on here, and the federated structure of it means that no-one can camp on communities to stop others from making it. You can just be replaced by someone else if you run it poorly.

There are many other problems too such as the site using AI to ban people, buggy notification system etc.

He wasn't moderating any large communities.

The difference here is that if this was Reddit, an out-of-control community moderator would be untouchable and they'd have a monopoly on the community name. This doesn't happen on the Fediverse.

Said this elsewhere, but:

What's interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale for the changes here. This isn't going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can't just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

People whine about terminally online moderators being power-hungry and garbage, but I can assure you hastily promoted randoms given the keys are far worse in most cases.

Yes.

Do we want Reddit amounts of users? No.

But there's a lot of growth between here and there.

Dbzer0 itself is very pro-AI. Or at least it has a lot of pro-AI communities.

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This is likely why you see that.

Piefed is an entirely different software. You would have to sign up to a piefed instance.