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We have a chance to build a new community here. How do we avoid the mistakes of /r/newzealand? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)
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Hi all, as with most of you, I'm an immigrant from Reddit. I never used to go on to the NZ or regional subreddits because frankly, I felt very unwelcome and those places were extremely negative.

How then do we build a new community that is based on being positive and accepting, even of those with different points of view, political leanings, religious beliefs or lifestyles? Everyone deserves a voice, no one deserves to be shouted down or made to feel unwelcome or belittled because they have differing thoughts.

Even festering cunts like Brian Tamaki and his ilk, deserve a seat at the table. We live in a free country and that means everyone should get a voice. Everyone gets to speak their piece, even if you don't like it.

How do we stop this community devolving into yet another online echo chamber?

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[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I said the subreddit is shaped by them so if you don’t like the subreddit the blame lies only with the moderators... Finally some of the moderators were downright bad people

If you don't like any of our team, please feel free to DM me! If you don't like me, you can still DM me (or another of the team). We try not to be bad people.

That reduces the utility of the such a log. You should be able to filter them for any server or even any topic.

Ultimately Lemmy is new, and many things are not fleshed out. This should get better over time.

Maybe some creativity needs to be applied to see if there are other actions that can be done. Maybe tagging?

Lemmy doesn't yet support tagging people or posts.

Maybe some sort of tally of reports on the user?

This makes me think of the way people on reddit try to get as many downvotes as they can...

This is a good opportunity to engage the community

I feel it's too early. Once there are problems, then we can look at solutions.

[–] BalpeenHammer 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you don’t like any of our team, please feel free to DM me! If you don’t like me, you can still DM me (or another of the team). We try not to be bad people.

I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about the moderators on /r/nz.

[–] Dave 1 points 1 year ago

I know! But if it gets like that here, I do want to know!