EDIT : !loneliness@lemmy.today has been created . The /c/ will also work as suicide watch. It was @wesker@lemmy.world 's idea to change the /c/ to include lonely people more .
I have been wondering why lemmy has nothing that is active and modded (which is bad for a /c/ like that ) . But i don’t wanna have any fall back from the law as i am quite brock atm so is there any such risk ? I am proposing this idea and will only carry on according to what majority thinks .
EDIT: Edited a bit which may have been misleading and because one user draw my attention it do reread if you have read the post before so you don’t get any wrong idea.
Not directly related but I had a situation yesterday when someone on masto randomly dropped their s-thoughts on me. It was very hard to come across that by surprise and I was really lucky my wife was next to me to talk about it immediately.
I suppose we do need some resources in the fedi to guide people towards. Just the most basic things:
I know its everything but basic to the people in need but I think being able to listen or help on the spot is an additional thing, not the most important. The most important would be providing something if you get a whiff of it, you report (like reddit‘s send help feature) the person/posts and the moderators/admins can guide them towards a resource with q&a.
Now its pretty much on topic after all I guess.
Thanks for reading, have a good one.
Yes that is why this idea came to me . Also why censor the word suicide that is a really bad thing to do here let me SUICIDE not acknowledging it will only make the people with those thoughts feel more lonely and distant and like it is a bad thought to have thus making them more incapable to ask for help as it is a bad thing to say or think.
We censor the word, same as everything else that has trigger potential, to not trigger people. Since you study psychology, you will know why thats bad. I‘m only studying it for fun, not „studying“ it.
Nah you know if a kids parent told him never to say gay as it is a bad thing and should never think about it and all the feelings are in his head and it will go away eventually that creates a negative feeling now replace the word gay with suicide . I am really really sure this is a very real consequence if you do that.
Edited some misleading bits
Would be nice to at least have a url and some hotlines on hand. Is there any way to write a bot that you can summon with @ or something?
I agree. Not sure how the whole bot thing here works. They can be written but I dont know if .world needs to host it or if any place can. Pretty sure you can make a bot and instruct it to watch a set of communities. We‘d just have to make sure it doesnt get banned. Something like this should also exist already. Might wanna check github or something.