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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If you look at the content feed of /c/conservative most of the recent posts seem to be fairly anti-conservative, or at least not very flattering. For example "Almost Twice as Many Republicans Died From COVID Before the Midterms Than Democrats" was just recently posted.

In other words they may be modding both subreddits because they're not actually conservative.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Scroll back to see what they were posting originally, the stuff with the downvotes was nasty. That's why people got together to change that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You'd think the moderators would be removing the anti-conservative stuff though if they were actually conservative.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Probably creating many communities. Though I agree it is difficult to remain impartial on topics like this.

[–] socialjusticewizard 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah, their "moderates" list is huge. I hope that with individual instances having more control here, we don't see quite as many of these absurd thousand-community mods.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Good grief, their community list is absolutely bloated, probably an attempt at powermoderating or domain squatting if I had to guess. It is unfortunate that they're modding LGBTQ+ though, they seem to suffer from a case of "enlightened centrism" and that is pretty harmful given today's climate for trans rights. (For context, the post in question is a single panel comic of a trans person dragging a child into an gender affirming care clinic, basically perpetuating the groomer libel of LGBTQ+ people)

[–] TiredSpider 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this is the most likely answer, just another power mod.

[–] socialjusticewizard 4 points 2 years ago

I wonder how long it will be before "power mod disorder" gets into the dsm

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@Goathound @Hurts @Izzent Maybe he was over here a long time ago. Went to reddit. Saw all the popular communities and Created all of them. I would signup for another instance, create the community you want. then link everyone. enough people then they will get bigger then the one on lemmy.world instance. Worth a shot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

This is both the upside and downside of Federation!

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[–] TiredSpider 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

beehaws LGBTQ+ community seems pretty good if anyone is looking for an alternative

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I agree, it's great :)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh. This is interesting. Now we need /c/lemmydrama ....

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

grabs popcorn

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't the the community is actually conservative, but rather critical of conservatives.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Scroll back, you'll see what it was like before a concerted effort to change that happened.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really hope it's in good faith, cause if it is, that may be a slimmer of hope that conservatives can co-exist amongst LGBTQ+. I'm more of a centrist (no, that does not mean I play the both sides are equally bad or I play both sides, get that out of your heads) and I have a few conservative opinions. This does not mean I agree with the extremism of the U.S. conservatives pushing laws and misinformation to opress LGBTQ+ and other minorities. It's sickening.

[–] socialjusticewizard 11 points 2 years ago (6 children)

What does "conservatism" mean to you? In my opinion there is no functioning definition of it that is safe for LGBTQ coexistence.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You can always come to kbin’s LGBT or queer communities and avoid that drama.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

@hurts is also a mod for both "Republican" and "Democrat".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I'm not sure. They may be a power mod, trying to grab as many communities as possible, they may be trying to infiltrate one of the communities, or they may be some form of a centrist or conservative queer person. One of the good things here is that the mod logs of these sites are open to the public, so we can keep an eye out for unjustified bannings or iffy behavior from this user and move away from their community if needed.

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