I'm attempted to MAYBE give a try running my own community which one of them would be for Gen-Z. My reason is the r/GenZ subreddit is badly moderated where there's a lot of bigotry and also bit of Generation-bashing which leads to stupid dramas. It would be in somewhat the format of like both causal conversation and any community/groups that talks about their nostalgia. I don't want any elitism about literally the year someone is born, just seems like a weird thing to act self-righteous about.

How do you handle politics? I tried to occasionally read up about politics but I'm not as up to date as I find if I read too much of it, it does affect my mental health for the worse. One thing I want for sure is to not make my community into a "Nazi Bar" but I'm not sure how good I am for spotting Nazis unless it the most well-known dogwistles. I know there's going to some stuff I don't agree with but it how do I know it's a red-flag that needs to be addressed and when it is just them having a different view.

I don't believe in banning politics for it unless there's bunch of people would prefer it and have a valid reason. I have some stuff I want to talk about which I say is somewhat political and want to say it to other Zoomers like me and talk about it like Job-search, money etc. Last thing I want to do is make it taboo to talk about it and give them a safe space to talk about it without feeling like someone would dismissed them.

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[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Aside from the person who downvotes most of my posts, I’m the only person on my community. Moderations’s pretty easy there. Sorry!

[–] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In !asklemmy@lemmy.world, we made it a rule to not post or talk about US politics. I generally remove posts and comments which are against this rule. Not many people seem to be reading the rules. They are free to discuss that in something like !politics@lemmy.world.

Here's the announcement from a year ago: https://lemmy.world/post/21696356

It was temporary at first, but through a community poll we made it permanent.

[–] sga@piefed.social 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

largest comm i moderate is !upliftingnews@lemmy.world

It has it's fair share of stuff to deal with, so here are some of the posts that you may want to look at. start with the sidebar.

tl;dr - ban party politics and schadenfreude. that goes a long way to reduce toxicity.

also, i am interested in joining the comm, so please link it.

[–] SuperDuperKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Thanks for linking me three post. I have just added schadenfreude rules and also rules up which I can imagine may changed overtime.

But that being said, I finally got my PieFed account sorted (excuse to try to see what the fuss is about with PieFed) and made the community, !genz@piefed.world

Any feedback to improve the community is welcome btw

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I mod !casualconversation@piefed.social

There's a rule against politics.

That's mostly it.

[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

re: politics, if you subscribe to the Platonian/Aristotelian system of philosophy, then banning all discussion of an entire branch of philosophy... doesn't make much sense. If you think through which specific behaviours that tend to arise in political discussions would be a problem for you, or which specific topics in politics are unlikely to lead to productive discussions, then you can make rules pertaining to those things rather than banning politics entirely. Of course this depends on how much time and effort you are willing to put in as a moderator to determine whether a post about politics violates the rules. Just an idea.

EDIT: I see that you have the community up and running with some rules in the sidebar. You might consider adding a rule about citing sources for empirical claims that are not common knowledge (or something to that effect). I imagine that that would help to keep political discussions civil and productive.