I used to see this on Reddit, I’m disappointed this behaviour is also on Lemmy.
Users collecting mod status on multiple communities, and then using that power to mass-ban a single user from a bunch of communities.
Modlog show how incredibly trigger happy some mods can be. Minor transgressions, deserving to have their comment removed at least, but then banned from unrelated communities as a consequence. This will only get worse as users become supermods.
Edit: It seems this is how an instance ban is reported, by banning from any communities the user has participated in. Then perhaps it isn’t all as bad as it seems.
Thanks, didn’t realise it was a historic issue. Only just noticed.
I guess I should expect to be banned from a bunch of communities for even mentioning it. It’s so petty and shows how thin-skinned people can be. Shouldn’t be mods if they can’t perform the role objectively.
lemmy.ml is a trap run by literal communists (who also happen to be the main developers of the lemmy software) it’s basically like the Lion King scene “but what’s that shadowy place?” “oh that’s lemmy.ml, we don’t go there”
But the nice thing about federation is that even thought it’s run by the developers, we don’t have to participate there and they evidently don’t want us “sheep” to participate there either so we can have a mutually beneficial relationship of not having anything to do with one another.
The problem is not being communist (or following Deng Xiaoping), that’s fine. It’s to follow certain Reddit patterns of moderation that you see regardless of the mod being communist or not, such as hidden rules.
And the presence of that specific hidden rule (“don’t criticise the Chinese government here”) there is an open secret. It’s enforced so often that, even in cases like this - where dessalines is actually saying the truth* - people don’t believe it.
*check the modlog, the guy was behaving like a wild monkey.
Hopefully more apps start to support piefed and maybe more instances will make the switch, allowing us to jettison there need for ml’s lemmy development.
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