A new announcement on making reports 😁

Hi comrades,

Lemmy (as a whole) has been blowing up due to a HUGE influx of new users. On Lemmy.ml they take care of 400 new account requests every day; that's also why their moderation is slow today, the devs need to focus on code more than moderation.

I just want to go over how reports work because yes, you can report both comments and posts across the fediverse!

To make a report, you just have to be logged into your instance and then click on the three vertical dots under a comment or post. Then, a few more icons will show up; click on the flag like here:

Reports go to the following persons:

1. Your instance administrators. If you are on Lemmygrad, we see your reports.

2. The community's moderators. Currently, reports go to community moderators as well as admins of the instance the community is on.

3. Admins of the target's instance. Reports also show up for the admins of the instance the person you report is registered on.

That means if you're from lemmygrad and report something on, say, news@lemmy. ml that was posted by someone from lemmy. world, all three admin teams will receive your report + the moderation team for news@lemmy.

If we, lemmygrad.ml, delete something that's on lemmy.ml, it will only be deleted for our instance. People from other instances will still see that content.

Therefore we tend not to delete stuff that's on other instances as it would only prevent us from further engaging with it and there's no point in that.

Also be aware that when making a report, your username is passed on too. Reports are not anonymous.

It's important to keep reporting stuff however, especially if they break other instance rules! On Lemmygrad, we take care of our reports and do delete and ban people appropriately based on reports: we (the admins) can't see everything ourselves. So remember, if you see something, say something!