You do have to worry about spam filters and if they actually receive your email. Hopefully you get some kind of verification.

And it would take effect on Sunday.

Was that DM to Elon? Or is Elon spying on private messages?

Mods are still generally going to have a lot of discretion. How often do you see admins get involved here?

We’re not going to allow hate speech. This is fully intended to give us something against those who, as you say, use the button as a weapon.

Give us a chance and let’s see how this actually plays out.

A lot of that falls under “attacks on users” or “attacks on groups”. Of course we’re still going to enforce that.

“Don’t make us de-mod you” is effectively what a lot of this comes down to. The goal is to be just a little less quick with moderation tools and, when we can, use our words a bit more.

I don’t expect this to change much for 95% of communities. The ones that are really going to have to change are the ones with super fragile philosophies that can’t stand up to a single sentence of criticism.

Weird. I can’t see the .ml after your name. Must be a Lemmy bug.

I don’t think they realize how easy (and low risk) it can be to set up a Mastodon server. Particularly when you don’t have to allow the public to create accounts.