Hello everyone,

Following the recent discussions on [email protected] and [email protected] , it seems that people realize that Lemmy.world is subject to European laws, and not the US ones.

This is another event where US citizens seem to be looking for an instance that would adhere to their “legal culture”, the previous one being the US elections, where the topic was discussed everywhere, before getting channeled into [email protected]

I don’t know anything about Dutch or Finnish laws, but I’ve seen many recent articles about people arrested in Germany for their social media posts that were considered hateful or violent (which is frankly a culture shock to me as an American), so I can see why some of the posts on Lemmy in the past week would be concerning.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13870047

So, the question is: could Discuss.online become that instance? And host US-focused communities like “AskUSA”, “USPolitics”, “USFinance”, this kind of things?

I am mostly asking because there’s no secret that the DO admins aren’t the biggest Lemmy fans, so would you guys be okay if your instance would get promoted, potentially causing an influx of users and communities, some requiring moderation?

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 days ago

    I thought you mentioned they were related as in the presence of HB trolling would turn away too many Redditors from wanting to stay on Lemmy (it almost did me), so while definitely the defederation is a different topic, yet it is related as in a necessary precondition even if not sufficient on its own.

    And I put so much material about other instances in case for some people the defederation of HB was a dealbreaker, now they know what options there are moving forward. Although personally I’m very happy with this outcome:-).

    • Blaze (he/him)English
      3•2 days ago

      yet it is related as in a necessary precondition even if not sufficient on its own.

      Would you be interested to mod communities here?

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 days ago

        Not as the main driving force but I’d help out sure (I’d have to learn the tools, I’ve never done it on Lemmy before). Do you have ideas for a team yet?

        • Blaze (he/him)English
          2•2 days ago

          As a non US citizen, I would rather not become a mod on for instance a “AskUSA” community, but I can create threads to try to find candidates on [email protected] or elsewhere

          • @[email protected]English
            3•2 days ago

            @[email protected] @[email protected] would you be interested in helping to create + moderate an AskUSA community, perhaps on Discuss.Online? I ask b/c I value your judgement:-).

            The goal would not be for it to be big & fancy so much as to help make Americans feel more welcomed onto this international space and have a place to ask questions related to the great US of A.

            I’ve never modded anything on Lemmy before, so I am unfamiliar with these tools, though I did mod two small gaming communities on Reddit. I was never very good at it tho:-P.