Ok. If you are sincere then I am sorry, but that only means that you should majorly re-evaluate your behavior and try to honestly analyze if you are having the positive impact you claim to desire for Lemmy.
If you truly have an interest in improving the fediverse and making it a better place with better communities and a more diverse group of users, then you should be able to recognize that I am on your side, despite your personal dislike of me. I know that I come off as condescending and arrogant at times, but that’s because I deeply care about making this platform succeed, and it can be immensely frustrating when those who claim to support and believe in the platform seem to be acting counterproductively and worsening the climate on Lemmy by fanning the flames of petty drama and constantly calling for communities to split apart, servers to defederate, users to be banned, etc.
You consider that mods locking a whole community without intent to reopen it is petty drama. The 290 comments on that announcement show the opposite: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20937206
(I know you don’t care about links, but I’m doing this for other people reading this).
constantly calling for communities to split apart,
Not sure if that’s because you only follow this account, but the one where I post most “in community” content is @[email protected]. I regularly post there trying to build communities rather than split them.
I’m also the main poster on [email protected] , which objective is indeed to grow communities.
servers to defederate
Kind of similar to the point above. Ml, hexbear and lemmygrad are known to be tankies, so I was suggesting one instance to have them all defederated, to allow for new joiners to have a better first experience on Lemmy: https://feddit.org/post/6819084
Is it really that debatable? The feedback from the comments was quite positive. I don’t remember calling for any other defederation, but maybe I forgot.
users to be banned
When did I last asked for someone to be banned? My latest comment on the kind was there, but I was actually against a ban:
IP banning him from the whole site seems too much.
Fair enough. I do appreciate your posting of content at times. However, not all content is good content. Quality trumps quantity.
Maybe it would be best to focus more time on non-meta topics, like sports communities, gaming communities, hobbyist communities, etc. I feel that the neverending discussions of what is going on with whatever Lemmy server or communities and what needs to be done about it become a self fulfilling prophecy. The more that people focus on it, the more they tend to disagree.
Sometimes users and mods and admins are going to have disagreements and get angry at each other. It doesn’t need to be linked all over Lemmy every time that happens. We already have plenty of options for servers, it’s best to allow instances to handle their disagreements internally/privately and we don’t need everyone else in the fediverse getting in on every bit of drama. If the admins and mods are truly that bad at their jobs, the users will speak with their actions by leaving the server and/or community.
MeanwhileOnGrad is indeed a community that has generated some drama, and our admins have had discussions about this. Our current consensus is that due to the draconian censorship on hexbear always and lemmy.ml sometimes, it’s important to have hard evidence of some of the crazy and violent things that those communities upvote and agree with. This provides an easy way for new users to see for themselves what they are getting into if they choose to interact with, or god forbid join, one of the tankie servers. Although some drama gets generated along with that, the alternative would be to leave the blatant lies and bad faith tactics unchecked, which would be a much bigger problem imo.
I feel that the neverending discussions of what is going on with whatever Lemmy server or communities and what needs to be done about it become a self fulfilling prophecy. The more that people focus on it, the more they tend to disagree.
[email protected] shows the opposite. All interested users went to it, posted content, and reached 3k daily active users, which is more than [email protected] . They all agreed, and found at least one community that they can use from now on, whatever happens with [email protected]
It doesn’t need to be linked all over Lemmy every time that happens.
It’s usually limited to [email protected]. It wouldn’t have spread over all Lemmy hadn’t the mods decided to lock that community, basically forcing the Blahaj users to start a new community that would get visibility on /All.
Although some drama gets generated along with that, the alternative would be to leave the blatant lies and bad faith tactics unchecked, which would be a much bigger problem imo.
Your conclusion is the same that makes people post to [email protected].
If the objective is to offer a better alternative than Reddit, we have to evidence that there are indeed countermeasures against power tripping mods and admins. [email protected] is that countermeasure. And if people don’t like drama, they can just block that community. Same for [email protected] , one of the recurrent themes are going to be drama, as it’s the easiest context to create memes about.
Ok. If you are sincere then I am sorry, but that only means that you should majorly re-evaluate your behavior and try to honestly analyze if you are having the positive impact you claim to desire for Lemmy.
If you truly have an interest in improving the fediverse and making it a better place with better communities and a more diverse group of users, then you should be able to recognize that I am on your side, despite your personal dislike of me. I know that I come off as condescending and arrogant at times, but that’s because I deeply care about making this platform succeed, and it can be immensely frustrating when those who claim to support and believe in the platform seem to be acting counterproductively and worsening the climate on Lemmy by fanning the flames of petty drama and constantly calling for communities to split apart, servers to defederate, users to be banned, etc.
You consider that mods locking a whole community without intent to reopen it is petty drama. The 290 comments on that announcement show the opposite: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/20937206
(I know you don’t care about links, but I’m doing this for other people reading this).
Not sure if that’s because you only follow this account, but the one where I post most “in community” content is @[email protected]. I regularly post there trying to build communities rather than split them.
And if you are referring to split communities like [email protected] to [email protected] , that’s because ml are known to be very power tripping: https://feddit.uk/post/12952230. This is known, and there is even a whole community dedicated to them, on your instance: [email protected]. I don’t post there that often.
I recently asked for consolidation of [email protected] and [email protected].
And if you are referring to [email protected] , that was initiated by PugJesus, not by me: https://sh.itjust.works/post/29284968?scrollToComments=true
I’m also the main poster on [email protected] , which objective is indeed to grow communities.
Kind of similar to the point above. Ml, hexbear and lemmygrad are known to be tankies, so I was suggesting one instance to have them all defederated, to allow for new joiners to have a better first experience on Lemmy: https://feddit.org/post/6819084
Is it really that debatable? The feedback from the comments was quite positive. I don’t remember calling for any other defederation, but maybe I forgot.
When did I last asked for someone to be banned? My latest comment on the kind was there, but I was actually against a ban:
https://feddit.org/post/6939586/4208071
Fair enough. I do appreciate your posting of content at times. However, not all content is good content. Quality trumps quantity.
Maybe it would be best to focus more time on non-meta topics, like sports communities, gaming communities, hobbyist communities, etc. I feel that the neverending discussions of what is going on with whatever Lemmy server or communities and what needs to be done about it become a self fulfilling prophecy. The more that people focus on it, the more they tend to disagree.
Sometimes users and mods and admins are going to have disagreements and get angry at each other. It doesn’t need to be linked all over Lemmy every time that happens. We already have plenty of options for servers, it’s best to allow instances to handle their disagreements internally/privately and we don’t need everyone else in the fediverse getting in on every bit of drama. If the admins and mods are truly that bad at their jobs, the users will speak with their actions by leaving the server and/or community.
MeanwhileOnGrad is indeed a community that has generated some drama, and our admins have had discussions about this. Our current consensus is that due to the draconian censorship on hexbear always and lemmy.ml sometimes, it’s important to have hard evidence of some of the crazy and violent things that those communities upvote and agree with. This provides an easy way for new users to see for themselves what they are getting into if they choose to interact with, or god forbid join, one of the tankie servers. Although some drama gets generated along with that, the alternative would be to leave the blatant lies and bad faith tactics unchecked, which would be a much bigger problem imo.
I am the main poster on
And a few other communities. I even organize a weekly thread on [email protected] so that other “main posters” can discuss about their feeling of “shouting into the void” (https://sh.itjust.works/post/31030466)
[email protected] shows the opposite. All interested users went to it, posted content, and reached 3k daily active users, which is more than [email protected] . They all agreed, and found at least one community that they can use from now on, whatever happens with [email protected]
It’s usually limited to [email protected]. It wouldn’t have spread over all Lemmy hadn’t the mods decided to lock that community, basically forcing the Blahaj users to start a new community that would get visibility on /All.
Your conclusion is the same that makes people post to [email protected].
If the objective is to offer a better alternative than Reddit, we have to evidence that there are indeed countermeasures against power tripping mods and admins. [email protected] is that countermeasure. And if people don’t like drama, they can just block that community. Same for [email protected] , one of the recurrent themes are going to be drama, as it’s the easiest context to create memes about.