Hello World!
We’ve made some changes today, and we’d like to announce that our Code of Conduct is no longer in effect. We now have a new Terms of Service, in effect starting from today(October 19, 2023).
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The new Terms of Service can be found at https://legal.lemmy.world/
In this post our community mods and users may express their questions, concerns, requests and issues regarding the Terms of Service, and content moderation in Lemmy.World. We hope to discuss and inform constructively and in good faith.
Just that lemmy.world can’t have a team of full time fact checkers, so we have to be adults and do our own research.
That sounds more like a cop out though. Like not having to moderate blatant disinformation, which is exactly what happens on the mentioned instances.
As a community moderator (c/games) we try to.
Not so long ago we got a topic on Chinese games that ended up in a cesspool of sinophobia.
I did what I could to clean up the blatant insults from both side while mostly keeping the interesting part, but spent probably two days keeping an eye on it to prevent it from degenerating again 😅.
The problem is in such a case that both sides believe in their side of the truth and refuse to acknowledge that the other side got some good points too.
By keeping moderation from having to be the judge, jury, and executioner, we hope to provide a common ground on which all parties can debate. Moderation is here to keep baseless insults somewhat at bay, and keep illegal content out of our instance.
Examples like this are of course hard for me to judge from the outside. Is boycotting China as much as possible because of their government sinophobic already?
I’m talking about proper disinformation & extremistic comments, like genocide apologists, calls for violence and such. I think there’s things we can agree to disagree on, and things that just shouldn’t have a place at all on any sort of social media, because of their fundamentally destructive nature to our societies.