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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama

Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse

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[email protected] mod suppresses criticisms of fediverse spam campaign, using mass ban technique to silence opposing viewpoints (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the [email protected] community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of...

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I personally believe this particular mod may be abusing the community's rule 5, stretching it to suit their agenda. But I'll leave the interpretation up to you.

Note that others are reporting being banned by simply downvoting community posts. Suggesting further overreach.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I forgot Lemmy lets you see who downvoted and upvoted. Idk why that is happening. I thought the brigade was about comments.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I'll be one to admit my own comment was a bit cheeky. I had honestly never really noticed the [email protected] in my All feed until today, when this particular mod started posting a great deal of really poorly formatted memes. My cheeky comment was my only ever comment in the community.

I can't speak to any actual brigading, as the community normally isn't worth my time, which is very, very important to me.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

Not just poorly formatted...they were full of insults.

Theory: the posts are bait so Beaver can feel powerful banning people.

I'm on a (admittedly slow), slide towards vegetarianism so I'm obviously pro-vegan....but apparently I got banned two days ago for rule 5