I am working on rebuilding one of my communities. Originally it was a small fanfiction thing but as I have another fan related domain I decided to make this one a Dark Fiction site and community.

Thing is that Dark Fiction can get… Dark.

So while I am working on the ideas and which software to use for community, I need to figure out what is allowed for rules and discussion.

Obviously moderation would need to be far more lax than say Mastodon.art or anything from Europe. You can’t start banning everyone who talks about dark topics if they follow that topic to its darker logical conclusion.

Obviously Harrassment, KYS statements, Actual Racism, and a few other things should be banned. But discussion of how a racists bigoted character might address something shouldn’t be.

I live in the US so 1st Amendment is pretty open ended.

Figured I would put this out to discuss cause it is such a disconnect between what most people would generally expect from an instance due to the subject matter.

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Yeah, I think a dedicated server is a good idea.

    For the other things, you’ll have to try. It’s difficult to speculate how users are going to behave.

    I think you can turn off downvotes in Lemmy. I’m not entirely sure if NodeBB is a good idea. ActivityPub support is fairly new and you might run into technical issues as an early adopter. But on the other hand they’re a well established project. They’re going to iron out the bugs quickly. And seems Lemmy uses lots of resources, so you’re probably better off with something else for a smaller instance.

    Ultimately, I think that decision should be made on technical requirements. If you connect to the Lemmyverse, you’re going to have the same people around, no matter if you choose Lemmy, PieFed or NodeBB. It’s all the same community/people.

    • CWSmith@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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      3 days ago

      True. And keeping the technical specs low would be best since this might be combined with a web page for an Archive. That being said, encouraging people to build their own sites is something I would prefer since content support is a pain of a different flavor.