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[–] 8 points 3 months ago* (3 children)
  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    THANK you. I was like, what is this person talking about? I've never had reason to ban anyone, all I've done is remove abusive or trolling comments, and I don't get punitive or personal with repeat offenders.

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  • [–] [S] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Well I can’t upvote anything. I used to upvote something there once in a while. Today it came up with the “problem upvoting” on just that community.

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  • App or technical problems with Lemmy are not mod abuse. You need to be sure of it before you accuse another mod of moderator misconduct. It's literally in the community rules that you need to include a modlog screenshot showing what happened and if you had checked you'd see you were in fact not banned.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago*

    block 'em. curate your own feed and participate in other communities.

    once your feed is curated, it's better here than other social media and you don't have to engage with any groups you don't want to.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I never banned you. I haven't banned anyone.

    If you were banned, it might have been under the previous mod, who abandoned their post over 4 months ago when I took over.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Mods should not be able to perma ban without cause. I.e. for a ban to be possible it needs to originate from a rule breaking offence inside the community.

    Nah, that's a corollary of freedom of association: freedom to disassociate. Not saying I necessarily agree with your ban from /c/workreform. With the limited information I have, I'm inclined not to.

    The only mod of that community is @kat_angstrom@lemmy.world.

    Did you PM @kat_angstrom@lemmy.world and ask why you were banned?

    I’ve never posted on !workreform@lemmy.world .

    Maybe try /c/Antiwork? Because if I remember correctly, /c/workreform is just a nerfed version of /c/Antiwork.

    This is not an instance ban from some obscure instance, this is a .world comm.

    Badge of honor, .world sucks lol

    This is just making me not want to say anything anywhere, because these snowflakes mods preemptively banning people make no sense at all.

    Look, if you ever have anything actually worth saying, eventually someone's gonna get upset at you. E.g., people get upset at me all the time because I uncompromisingly assert my anarchist analysis and worldview on capitalist and statist instances. It's just an unpleasant part of being a human. I absolutely empathize with what you're going through.

    I don’t think I’ll last here on Lemmy.

    Yeah you might. Unlike Reddit, you can start up a new work reform community (or ideally something more radical lol) on a different instance, even a distinct /c/workreform. De facto, Lemmy.world does have too much influence in the Fediverse, and it does use that influence to impose neoliberal values on the Fediverse. Really, Lemmy.world is Reddit 2.0, warts and all, just with Fediverse access. But unlike Reddit, the Fediverse has tools to change that distribution of power. Namely: choose communities on other instances, e.g. "some obscure instance". And it probably makes sense to migrate to an instance whose admin team most closely represents your values.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That's so weird. I've never banned anyone, seriously.

    I know there was a mod prior to me, I want to say around 4 months ago? Could it have originated from them and only now got noticed? No idea who they were, they abandoned their post and I had a queue of 76 reports going back 3 months to go through when I took over.

    Yeah, this ain't me.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    You can change server fairly easily.

    That's the difference between the fediverse and alternatives

    Personally, I left beehaw because of a mod there. Whilst they said it was a safe space, they were looking for a complete echo chamber where you had to agree, and simply pointing out a suggestion wasn't feasible and caused more issues was an attack

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works also severely limits the size of the Threadiverse for its users.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    I never realized they were

    Honestly, every other mod was ok.

    But, the person (actually a mod of a community) the beehaw mod was defending, if you checked their comment history, it was excessive. And even worse, made it seem that allies like myself who weren't part of the community at all were unwelcome, unwanted. Which is ridiculous, because it doesn't reflect the community in real life at all

    So, my recommendation has always been to stick to open servers that are balanced. But, the great thing about Lemmy is that if you want something less balanced, just block servers or join servers that cater for your views

    You'll never find one that is perfect though. But, just don't put yourself in a position there is a better option that you miss out on because it isn't 100% (ie, kamala and Trump were not the same)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    So of the plethora of bans that have come my way

    A plethora?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    world frequently bans users from all admin-connected communities if they're banned in one.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    😳 I had no idea. That kinda seems like a bit much. Especially since, and maybe this is just a numbers thing because it's probably one of the biggest, but most of the unpleasant people I've interacted with have been from world

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    That's not how the fediverse works though. You can't make a unilateral rule about only banning for offences in that community.

    There's loads of communities with very, very petty mods who treat their community as their fiefdom. This is the case with every social platform ever.

    Its more noticeable on the fediverse because there are very few large well moderated communities.

    Just make an account on another instance, block the fieflords,

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Anyone can create a community on world and decide who to exclude. Banning random people limits a community's reach; best to report such communities here and instead contribute to communities with reasonable moderation practices.

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