If power-hungry mods want to discredit themselves by banning people for a single downvote and then getting bad publicity for it, and then risking the chance that a rival community is set up - draining their numbers, then so be it. I’m all for people showing us who they are in those situations.

Not the OP, but yes I personally do.

What a strange rule

Well you can make use of the Piefed tagging system to distinguish different locations or topics etc

Isn’t this effectively suggesting to delete the community and remake as US Politics?

Indeed. tbh we need a “piefed federate” tool built really.

I also added them all to piefed.social manually. I do that a lot. I am following all the ‘discover’ communities where people advertise, so pull them into piefed.social.

True, but Reddit let this problem fester for a long time.

What’s interesting to me here regarding this, is Reddits current preparation timescale. This isn’t going to be enforced until March 31st, 2026. This tells me that Reddit would have been unprepared for a complete mass-walkout of community moderators during the 2023 Reddit API strikes. A large chunk of Reddit during that period was genuinely inaccessible. But after a few token gestures and a few examples made of some especially rebellious mod-teams, most of the striking moderators returned.

A huge opportunity was missed by people running major communities to functionally degrade Reddit in at least the medium-term as a website. You can’t just hastily promote random people to replace moderators Reddit is either forced to remove or who leave voluntarily. The average person is likely too lazy, too arbitrary and too corrupt to effectively oversee communities of notable sizes.

Piefed 1.2 will fix this.

Well it isn’t possible, and probably not ever possible to automatically redirect lemmy-based subscribers to a new community on piefed via migration. I also think lemmy users would not like that even if it was.

But Rimu did suggest he wanted it to automatically do it for piefed based users, and have it so all posts are automatically migrated on all piefed instances too.

I think you missed the link to the community.

People feel the same way about lemmy.

For Porn sites only

I suppose it’s more me being curious about why the bigger-boys aren’t using age-ID there.

Also, a detail but:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/supreme-court-lets-mississippi-age-verification-law-go-into-effect-for

It’s considered likely to be unconstitutional.

The ruling now allows Mississippi to enforce its social media law while case continues in the lower court. In the ruling, Kavanaugh also cited several district court rulings opposing similar age-verification laws, concluding that “the Mississippi law is likely unconstitutional.”

So I’m curious. If this law is in play in Mississippi now, are Mississippians being prompted for their ID on Discord, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit etc? I would check myself but my VPN doesn’t have a Mississippi server.

If not, and they’re not bothering, then why is Bluesky reacting like this specifically?

I really, really doubt that a website owner based in USA would be extradited to the UK for not complying with UK local law with how they run their website. That’s absurd.

I doubt that the USA would recognise and take down websites for not following Ofcoms requirements. And Ofcom would 100% be too cowardly to even threaten that. They’d just geoblock.

No. It was also down to holding them potentially viable for what their users post.

A forum about hamsters shut down.

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