• Facebones@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    I started on lemmy.world, and volunteered to mod a few communities relevant to my interests. Somebody started swinging at me on a post, sounding pretty super right. I looked at their profile and they were straight on some nazi shit. Literally, espousing nazi talking points.

    I also noticed that they were mod on one community I was mod. I linked to relevant content and asked admin to remove said mod, and if they don’t it’s their perogative but I’d remove myself from mod-ship, no worries. I just don’t want to share a space with that person who so openly is on that bullshit. 🤷

    I was banned from the entire instance within 10 minutes.

  • Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Because they’re incompetent neoliberals who didn’t want anything to the left of them to exist because it exposes them as immoral shitbags. What they didn’t understand at the time was that when you remove the left from your space you are drastically shifting your community rightwards. Now they have a fascism problem and it looks increasingly like Voat did.

    It wasn’t really supported by their users either. It was a decision that seemed to entirely come from Antik.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      You won’t get an answer here that isn’t just shameless self-aggrandizement.

      youre-awful

      The shameless self-aggrandizement is 100% true btw

      joker-troll

      • Infamousblt [any]@hexbear.net
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        I dunno what the right way is but I type a : and then that pops up a like search thing that lets you pick one. Once you pick one it pops this big long string of bullshit into your post that becomes an emoji. So for example if you type :sicko you get a bunch of stuff like party-sicko

      • iie [they/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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        1 year ago

        one trick you can use is to “view source” on a comment to see what the person typed

        click the three vertical dots for more options, then click the icon that looks like a document

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      I have lurked here for a long time, but I just don’t understand the logic here. I read the statement that was linked here, and it just seemed like they were saying that they should be respectful and follow our rules? … Isn’t dismantling propaganda… through “informed rhetoric” a good thing? Why are NATO, the IMF or World Bank automatically good? … Aren’t we just creating a bubble by preemptively blocking a large lemmy instance just because we don’t like their political speech? As far as I can tell they aren’t promoting racism or bigotry. Has lemmy.world preemptively banned nazi or right-wing instances?

    • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org
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      They’re pretty incompetent admins too. It seems that their instance is down more than it’s up. In fact, it was down right now when I tried to open that link. I don’t know why anyone stays there. Maybe they don’t and those user numbers they have are nowhere near their true active numbers. In a way this sucks for Lemmy because it’s the largest instance and people seem to be attracted to that kind of thing, so they get a bad first impression of Lemmy.

      • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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        It’s down so often because it’s the largest instance, and it’s perpetually DDOSed among other more vile attacks. Lemmy.ml is federated with them, so I see their announcement and status posts and can definitely confirm the numbers aren’t inflated.

        • xapr@lemmy.sdf.org
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          Here’s one of their explanation posts about the situation: https://lemmy.world/post/2923697

          All their explanations for why they’re constantly down basically go back to them letting it grow much bigger than they could handle, because they decided to be the “savior” of Lemmy. Contrast that with what the largest Mastodon instances did when the Twitter migration happened, which was to close registrations and refer people back to join-mastodon to find another instance. This included the largest instance, mastodon.social, which is run by the creator of Mastodon.

          Incompetence is understandable given that it’s new software, the sudden influx from Reddit, plus everyone makes mistakes. The bigger problem that I see is the hubris that made them decide that they could absorb all the new Lemmy users and then not ever changing that decision even after it became clear that they had major stability problems. In their effort to “save” Lemmy, they’ve actually given a lot of people a terrible first impression of it. I’ve seen countless people complain on r/RedditAlternatives about how Lemmy sucks when the details they provide make clear that it’s lemmy.world that they’re complaining about.

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      I’ll always appreciate that post because it convinced me to leave lemmy.world and subscribe to hexbear communities. I was nodding along to all the quotes from “scary hexbear” in the OP