Blaze (he/him)

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Cake day: August 28th, 2024

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  • 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] ?










  • Very true, but perhaps not universally so. Even if a tenth of one percent of those users who left were to have come here, it would have been noticeable. Instead, we stayed the same size.

    Twitter and Reddit have been around for more than 10 years, people are familiar with both sides, are know which one they prefer (it can be both).

    That’s why I was not expecting any Twitter not liking Reddit to come here, the same way Mastodon probably didn’t see a lot of new accounts when Reddit messed up in June 2023.