Any critiques, desire for clarity, outright hatred, whatever have you. I will respond the best I can.

I know there’s been some blowback on some of the policy updates but it’s been difficult to really explain fully that the restrictive content policy is temporary, this community was very unmanaged for a time and it had to be reigned in somehow and with the limited tools at disposal the temporary policy changes were made.

Here’s a comment that also explains a little bit behind the decisions made recently as well.

For community mods, we have a community mod coord matrix group chat now. Feel free to DM about it.

Also, there’s another ongoing discussion regarding SFW communities on lemmyNSFW here.

  • @rustling_leavesEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    Some thoughts:

    1. It would be nice if file upload limit would be increased, maybe to 1.5 MB or 2MB? 1MB just feels too restrictive and I end up having to shrink down a lot of the images or convert them to jpgs that I am trying to upload

    2. I think it would be nice to set up some limits for example or at least have that conversation, for example only 2 years of posts for each community or 9999 posts for each community, then other posts would “drop off” and disk can be reclaimed, similar to 4chan style image boards. As much as I want to have content forever realize that hosting this stuff isn’t free.

    3. I am not a fan of scat or throw up porn but I do think it should still be here. Maybe admins can have some sort of toggle to prevent some communities for showing in c/all but otherwise I do think we should have those communities.

    4. I also think we should continue to have those celebs communities. Those communities aren’t purely “sfw”, your boss would definitely raise an eye brow if he or she would see you scrolling through Katy Perry red carpet photos not to mention if you were doing that around family or kids, there would be questions. Furthermore those communities sexualize celebs and post explicit comments about them which again isn’t a “sfw” thing. Other lemmy instances may have communities for those celebs but with more focus on their work for example Taylor Swift community focused on her music not just her hot sexy body, you know?

    5. If people don’t like certain communities they can block them. I myself have blocked around ~35 communities mostly centering around hentai/anime, not a fan of that stuff but to each their own.

    6. Thanks for the admins for getting this up and running and maintaining it. It’s nice to have a sanctuary now that reddit is hellbent on ruining their site to get an IPO and cash out.

    • Padded PersonEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Quick responses to the two of those i have suggestions/answers to:

      One way around the limitation is to use a hosting site like catbox.moe to host the images. i know that doesnt solve the issue, but for now its the best i’ve got :/

      Once we have the tools to allow sudo quarantined coms the admin team does intend to allow scat throw up, etc on the instance. in talking to the admins they have made it clear its very much a temporary thing due to limited lemmy tools. (some contents are perma banned but they are listed seperately and are more along the lines of “illegal” rather than “not my taste”)