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  • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    As much as public modlogs are required, the lack of accountability of some mods repeatedly reported for power tripping makes me question sometimes if all of this is not in vain.

    [email protected] is still the most popular privacy community

    [email protected] is still the most popular world news community

    On the other hand, there are several features that Lemmy always ignored, and that exist on Piefed

    • consolidated comment view for all crossposts
    • actual instance blocking
    • multicommunities
    • keyword filters
    • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 days ago

      As much as public modlogs are required, the lack of accountability of some mods repeatedly reported for power tripping makes me question sometimes if all of this is not in vain.

      Maybe it seems that way since mods don’t always or often yield to pressure on YPTB, but if there wasn’t a modlog or if they could hide it and not announce actions publicly. We wouldn’t even know. People would still complain about their bans but there would be no public evidence. No one could make a critical assessment based on the public evidence it would be the banned person’s word against the mods. That’s what a life without the modlog is, that’s what it is on Reddit. I do not believe that real people want to go back to that. Server admins and mods maybe but not people.

      On the other hand, there are several features that Lemmy always ignored, and that exist on Piefed

      I believe the second, third, and possibly the fourth one are coming in later Lemmy versions.

      • Blaze (he/him) @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        No one could make a critical assessment based on the public evidence it would be the banned person’s word against the mods.

        I agree. I’ll ask Rimu to enable the modlog on Piefed.social.

        It just got enabled on https://piefed.world/modlog (so similar to https://quokk.au/modlog), it should appear in a few hours

        I believe the second, third, and possibly the fourth one are coming in later Lemmy versions.

        Let’s talk again once they are here.

        Edit:

        • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          That’s nice that he did it but the fact that he gives the option to turn it off without forking isn’t good, the reason why Lemmy’s modlog is so great is because it isn’t optional, and while you could modify your own Lemmy instance to hide and disable it, you’d need to break mod action federation to completely remove it. By not being optional it is more resilient. Piefed though makes it easy for corrupt or non-accountable admins to turn it off and hide who did what and when. Just like it is on Reddit.