Welcome all to Mildly Infuriating! I’m aware many of us are reddit refugees. Lemmy.world seems to be the best instance that complies with my morals and principles.

I want to help grow this instance. I’m bloody passionate! That said I always want to share that passion and branch out to other communities and encourage a healthy environment.

I would like to recruit moderators, but the moderation is not limited to just mildly infuriating. I have other projects in mind and those are as follows:

LemmyShitpost - For nonsense memes, shitposting and dumb stuff. Made a goofy meme/shitpost? Post it here.

LemmyBeWholesome - for wholesome memes, cute pictures, nice comments. Post those here.

Lemmy Review - For mocking reviews, bad listings, q&as, basically anything and everything related to the wacky world of e-shopping. (not to be confused with Etsy Sellers, which appears to be a more serious community.)

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With that said. I have rules for moderation and those are as follows:

  1. Uphold the rules in compliance with Lemmy.World.
  2. Ensure that all moderators comply with the rules, corruption, censorship of content and intent to censor content for personal gain will be against the rules of this community.

I have witnessed the following on reddit and I want to discourage such behaviour as it’s bad practice and a detriment to the community.

  • Removing/deleting posts from users as a moderator and reposting them.

  • Banning/Removing users due to a personal beef when the user has not been in breach of community rules.

  • Removing/Hiding opnions from other users that disagree with practices/actions made by the community in question. Opinions should be encouraged and listened too.

  • Using information provided by users on the platform to blackmail, harass or engage in unsavoury practices.

  • Allowing users special privildges in exchange for favours/currency or friendships. …

If you are not disuaded by anything written above. Then you can send me a dm with information on why you would like to join the communities.

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If you are not interested in becoming a moderator but would like to branch out your community to this one then feel free to post your community below this message.

I am aware I am a human so I may not get it right, but I am open to listening/learning as the fediverse expands over time.

Welcome all new fediverse users! Thanks for taking your time to read this post and thanks for joining the mildly infuriating community in the ongoing fight against social media enshitification!

  • DojanEnglish
    17•2 years ago

    Thank you for taking the initiative! I hope the fediverse grows large and diverse, that we may knock the corporate run sites out of the market and give the control back to the collective.

    I’m curious though, why are the communities prefixed with “Lemmy?” Is it so other fediverse platforms know what platform it originated on?

    • AerOPMEnglish
      16•2 years ago

      Lemmy Review is a play on words for me as in “Let me” but instead “Lemmy” It’s just a playful name above all things.

      • DojanEnglish
        14•2 years ago

        Oh my goose, I didn’t realise that Lemmy could be read as “Let Me.” That’s so clever! I’m a sucker for puns! That was all it took to convince me, haha.