Well, time to make my alt community account my primary one. See y'all on the other side!
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
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I make them perna ban me first. Fuck them.
But yeah. Gtfo, and be carful, if the world is flat that means it has an edge.
Tankie mods on world are criticized for being too tankie in moderation.
Admins try to address this by forcing mods to argue instead of immediately ban if something is posted against their beliefs.
A non-tankie mod thinks it is bullshit that they have to engage in every online argument in good faith and takes their subs (I know this isn't the official term but it communicates the idea) dark in protest.
i still use sub. i dont think ill ever stop. like how podcasts are still called podcasts and they dont even make ipods anymore.
Here's something to blow your mind: podcasts pre-date the iPod.
The term "podcast" was coined by Ben Hammersley, a BBC journalist and The Guardian columnist, in February 2004. The word is a combination of "iPod" and "broadcast". Hammersley first used the term in an article for The Guardian.
To be honest for people who didn't use redet a lot, 'subs' is very confusing because it doesn't relate to anything in the Threadyverse.
These days when I see subs I think submissives.
These days? Definitely made sense to me even back when I redditted. I am submissive to catsbeingjerks, hmmm, and Noita.
Excellent summary.
You have to allow a little raw chicken in the mayo now.
So now people are to be allowed to sealion and troll and JAQ off in your community, so long as they do it respectfully.
Or else.
Imagine running, say, a community for vulnerable trans kids, and being forced to allow a constant influx of 'helpful suggestions', just so long as they're phrased in pretty language.
Yikes
Short version: yesterday, Lemmy.world announced essentially, though they buried it under lots of distracting verbiage, that they were going to follow in the footsteps of Vichy Twitter and Meta and allow hate speech and misinformation, and probably more to the point, they intend to force recalcitrant mods to allow it regardless of their own views on the matter.
And the head mod/creator/whatever they are of unpopular opinion took exception to that and locked the community in protest.
I just want to highlight the term "Vichy Twitter" because I really like that. Thank you.
I'm another mod of the community. Admiral didn't let me know they were doing this.
I still 100% support their actions regardless.
So you don't support the LW announcement?
I thought this couldn't happen in lemmy. Oh well...
This can certainly happen on Lemmy. And you can bypass it by setting up yourself and your communities on a different instance with more reasonable rules.
Lemmy can't change human nature. It does not restrict bad behavior. It offers alternatives. Everyone gets to choose among instances and communities. The hope is that people will shift away from the ones that become toxic when better options are always available. It tends to be a gradual process, but I think it is working.
Everyone has the right to make dumb decisions :)
I'm not an expert in political philosophy by any measure, but I kind of feel like lemmy.world is a small case study in the pros and cons of realpolitik.
Mostly the cons.
https://lemmy.world/post/24135976
So they're trying cut back on echo chambers and power tripping mods. I like this, but I wonder how this going to play out.
Policy sentiments aside, wow that post is so up it's own ass. There was definitely a more concise way to communicate the change.
We’re going to allow some “flat earth” comments. We’re going to force some moderators to accept some “flat earth” comments
You.. like this? Glad I'm not a mod, this is how places like Reddit became what they are today. Opinions should be allowed, but admins should be able to moderate blatant falsehoods.
I don't, but I also moved all the communities I mod off LW
Reddit is a living emblem of the problem this is trying to solve so I have no idea what you mean.
Mods can’t be trusted to enforce the truth. It’s far too complicated and they invariably end up enforcing their own distorted view of the world instead.
We've already run into problems with that where mods banned people talking about Israeli war crimes as "misinformation". Despite it being headline news.
So that's obviously not a great system.
Did you document this on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com ?
Yeah I'm pretty sure I remember it getting called out there.
Define "blatant falsehood". See where the problem starts?
You… like this?
Yeah. You know the saying, "Sunlight is the best disinfectant.".
That saying is total bullshit. I've seen people say it for years, only to one day turn coats and reveal that they supported the falsehoods all along.
Sunlight helps scum find other scum.
.world continually making dumb changes
Seems like they locked the community in protest of recent .world TOS changes. Although I think a much better protest would be to simply refuse to enforce the changes they felt are unsatisfactory.
...or just migrate the community to another instance? Like why are we in the fediverse? Have people forgotten that if you don't like a instance, you can just move to another one?
Migration as a first choice is rash.
I gotta rash, man.
From the announcement in question:
Some communities will receive an immediate notice with a link to this new policy. The most egregious communities will comply, or their moderators will be removed from those communities.
Nothing like a good power trip from the admins. Even if mods are power tripping people can make a new community. This was a bad response by admins, they bowed to only the most vocal minority. Vast majority of people have been fine with the moderation on .world. only classy thing to do is to take it back and play it off like it was a trial run that didn't work out
I have no idea, what is it?
They locked the community in protest of . world's new pro-disinformation and pro-hate speech policies.
Wtf dot world?