Thank you for your insight, have a good one!

Alright, to be honest that whole right-wing issue with MWoG was kind of on my backlog.

I remember seeing a few problematic threads from the main mod in the past, especially advocating to keep federation with exploding-heads:

• They aren’t neo-nazis.
• No, don’t de-federate. If you don’t like it, block it, easy as that. Lemmy is meant to be better than reddit, which means dealing with opposing views. If they’re triggering or offensive to you, block them.
• Because they’re minding their own business and you keep trying to make a dramatic decision for all of us.
• But all of the communities and controversial posts are posted inside the exploding-heads instance.

@[email protected], do you still stand by those comments?

Leftists are banned from that comm if they contextualize

I just had a look at the modlog (https://sh.itjust.works/modlog/25693), there seems to be indeed a few strange cases for “apologia”. Unfortutanely, we can’t see the comments in this cases.

I’ll edit my comment in the meantime to remove the mention to MWoG.

While we are discussing, what is your stance on [email protected] ?

I link to [email protected] any time a mod power trips, the most recent examples being the Lemmy.world decisions to remove comments about jury nullification.

If (removed) screens are taken out of context, people who want to add the context can come in and explain it.

If that mod bans them, then it’s power tripping, it’s going to be reported to [email protected] and then many people (including me) will probably stop using that community

Impressive patience in this discussion

Nice comment

If instances are like separate Reddits then it is just like getting a siteban.

Indeed, and like Reddit, people are leaving for other sites, or in this case instances

That’s probably the core of the issue. People probably don’t mind being banned from [email protected] or [email protected] for such statements, it’s not like it’s a surprise based on the political stance of the instance.

Being banned from Linux and keyboard communities seems unrelated. Which is why people are recreating those communities elsewhere.

make your own

That’s what most people are doing

And how is this related to mechanical keyboards, Linux and open source communities?

https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

To me it is wrong for such prominent instances to always be the ones getting away with this type of behavior

I wasn’t going to mention it, but as it’s not your first time, (removed) is more specific than [email protected]

Instances known for power tripping are getting less and less popular over time

They already are

Accusing one of “power tripping”, in their own community, on the instance they presumably pay for, is not a rational accusation, since they definitionally cannot exist in a state of less power

Mods don’t pay for the instance, they aren’t in charge of any of it.

Some admins have strong policies against getting involved into moderation of communities, leaving potential power tripping mods unchecked.

What that community is trying to do is use the threat of public shaming to influence behavior. It’s how you get weak moderation and generic communities.

• A community is the most popular on a topic, it’s by far the most active community on that topic across the whole platform
• The single mod, who was just the first one to create the community when everyone came to Lemmy, starts to power trip
• The admin does not want to intervene
• What solution do the users have besides organizing on a community like [email protected] ?

No worries!

• https://feddit.org/post/5508290
• https://feddit.org/post/4360913
• https://feddit.org/post/3758913

Three examples from that community, where other people can discuss the moderation, and see whether it’s power tripping or not.

right winger upset

Right wingers aren’t that numberous of Lemmy, but when this happens it gets quickly disqualified by the people commenting

• https://feddit.org/post/3648616

anyone can create an instance or community

Enjoy your empty community nobody cares about because people post on the one where most of the people are, where the power tripping mod is operating

see completely automated commercial spam posts every few days.

Don’t get those accounts banned quite fast?

And we all know there’s already political agenda-pushers. Hell, Lemmy was created by some.

It’s community-dependent. Lemmy.ml communities are far from being the most popular on Lemmy: https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

Nice comment!

I didn’t say you were power tripping.

I was mentioning that community as a way to handle power tripping mods.

It also works, [email protected] is being replaced by [email protected] after the admin started power tripping.

So it’s not just moral, it also has a real impact by allowing users to organize and switch communities

lemmy.world are moderated you have zero recourse

[email protected]

As you said, a 44k monthly active users plateform is probably not worth investing time from spammers and agenda pushers.

If at some point we’ll make it, we’ll see. Seems like we are still quite far.