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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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.world mods and admins are just seething right now because they were unsuccessful in moving 196 to .world. The whole community just fucked off to [email protected]
This behaviour will just continue, its what .world is destined to do because they think we need them.
Y'all are assigning way to much maliciousness to the people running a non-profit.
I usually trust LW, especially Ruud. One point I just don't get is why staying federated with Threads
I do think the L.W. position is a bit too status-quo, but being misguided isn't the same as being a mustache twirling villain
i think it was ruud who banned me for antiwhite racism from political memes, purely because Iinked readsettlers.org .
I trust him as a sysadmin. Not sure he does that much moderation these days
I actually think that's part of the problem. If you don't eat your own dogfood, you don't know where the problems are.
ruud isn't and hasn't for a long time been involved in LW moderation at all. the last moderation type site admin action taken by ruud was september 2023. all LW site moderation is done by the LW site admin team and to some extent our community team.
the LW team operates more or less independently from the rest of the instances we have at FHF. some topics are discussed in the wider circle of moderators across instances (same role, just different terminology depending on the software) but decisions are generally still on the LW site admin team.
Makes sense, thank you for confirming
True, but at the same time maybe he doesn't want to talk on Lemmy that much. Also I think they also manage Mastodon, that would be something to stay active there regularly too
Yes, but again, this is part of the problem. Ruud deciding to host and maintain a dozen fediverse services he doesn't use personally is a choice, which has these sort of effects.
I personally run lemmy and only lemmy because I use it all the time and know exactly what's happening here and what the drama is and can put my development time into improving my instance.
Good point, your approach is probably the best
Why is a decentralised instance in a decentralised social network infrastructure wanting to be the centralised instance.
IMO, Lemmy.world is a greater risk to Lemmy than Meta's threads.
Yeah duh, thats why everyone is pissed at .world. Their admins also didnt sign the anti meta petition (fedipact) and for that and many other reasons are defederated by other instances.
Imo the fedipact is silly. It shouldn't be a reason to defederate from someone
Nobody is deferating because someone didn't sign the fedi pact, but people do bring that as a con for that instance.
You have to see it as a sort of shopping cart test of basic human decency. If you cant even manage a base level of agreement over why the fediverse exists and what can endanger it, then your instance should not be trusted with majority control over lemmy.
It's nice that you're so certain and righteous. That's certainly never gone badly for anybody else in history ever.
i think the sublinks dev is ongoing, they said they wanted to switch to that and eventually cut ties to lemmy. They probably want the largest userbase to take with them
It's halted at the moment. [email protected] is usable
oh god whats the story on that? Why are people so adamant on splintering?
Sublinks main dev got a child.
Piefed dev knew Python and not Java
but why reinvent the wheel it's such a waste of effort
Honestly, If I wasn't on lemmy atm, I'd be hosting piefed because I know python and it's much easier to develop.
Languages are different, not all people know all of them.
If you get a book draft in Persian, are you going to continue writing in that language, or will you translate to one of your main languages?
But I thought they had multiple devs?
I'm in that Matrix, things stopped happening around 6 months ago.
Or they have a chat without me 😄
Their logic of we picked Java because it's easier to find people.
I thought they had multiple lw and a beehaw people helping as well?
They do, but nobody's leading the project
So they can cencor fedi discussions.
During elections you could not post any criticism of kamala or DNC without ban hammer..
Discussions of Dead parasite CEO... Can't discuss either....
Criticism of neo liberal regimes... Not on their Lemmy!!!
Rule1,Civility, troll🤡
This is called censorship and world makes ML seem reasonable IMHO
These ideological leanings does make me wonder who is paying the neckbeards to do this fulltime.