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when you report someone, who receives the report? Mods on my instance? The mods of the specific community I'm reporting from?

When a report is made, it goes to three instances.

1. The instance of the person making the report
2. The instance of the account being reported
3. The instance of the community in which the content was posted

Each instance only gets a single copy of the report and that report can be actioned by the admin of the instance the report is on, or moderators of the community. Only a single report is generated for each instance even if it meets multiple criteria, and it is one report per instance, not one report per admin/moderator. Marking a report as complete on one instance does not mark it as complete on another instance.

If a report leads to content removal, that removal will only federate if the reported content is removed by a moderator of the community, or by an admin of the instance that hosts the community or the user. If removed by any other admin, the removal doesn't federate to other instances, and is purely removed for local users.

I noticed months ago that transphobic comments were being tolerated in communities on lemmy.world, which was one of several things that disillusioned me of the instance. Unfortunately I didn't take screenshots, so I can't recall exactly which communities I saw such comments, and I'd really hate to speculate. The comments I saw left up were the usual TERFy hot takes about women's sports.

Reports go directly to the community moderators, and you can find that list in the sidebar aka under "community info."

Reports may also go directly to admins, but I'm not sure. If you have an instance level concern, it's probably best to contact an admin.

most of the users i have blocked are from there, and it's not a very long list either

World is pretty hit or miss like that, unfortunately.

But it comes down to individual mods. There's some C/s that have mods listed that aren't active, and haven't gotten weeded out yet. And you have some real assholes there as mods and users, which is to be expected from the larger instances (the one I'm in as well, shithustworks has some major jerks here and there)

Iirc, both mods and admins have access to reports, but most instances of any size, the admins really don't have the time to handle them.

Any community demanding "be civil" can fuck right off, because they're almost guaranteed to protect trolls and bastards from any meaningful condemnation.

Blocking them directly is the way to go.

only places that care about banning transphobes are here, hexbear, and lemmygrad really. i mod c/traa on hexbear and how we deal with this is by having 26 fairly active trans mods. we spread the workload out on banning people, we usually have a response to ban within 5-30 minutes, sometimes its instantaneous. we care a lot about making sure as few people as possible see abusive material and to make sure even the mods have not many interactions by spreading the burden of dealing with transphobia out a ton.

i add pretty much anyone that is a trans socialist to the mod team if they ask. i dont like the idea of having a clique, it should be easy to join, i do semi regular asks if anyone wants to join

also, on top of our 26 mods, we have 15 admins that help with bans, a bit over half of whom are trans. which is about proportionate to the userbase

From my own point of view (which nobody else on this planet has to share) I like how these mods seem to roll… I’m very happy to encounter liars, flamers, trolls, the misinformed, provocateurs, satirists, deluded individuals, disingenuous actors, bots, cat fishes, psychopaths etc etc online because it keeps me sharp - I’d hate to have a drip fed supply of agreeable posts and interactions that never challenged nor jarred me.

On an instance with “world” in the title I’d be very disappointed if everybody was of similar views and opinions. Remember, we’re all strangers with our own motivations, world view, limits and red lines. These can be vastly different… but if we retreat to a safe space, echo chamber, whatever, we will never see how others see the world. We will never interact outside of our tiny social (media) circle. Imagine having exactly the same world view at 50 as you did at 15. Might as well join a religion/cult.