Yeah that is true, at least it is for all the ones which aren’t critical-mass communities or instances (ones that are a large percentage or engagement and userbase here). The ones that are, would likely be more detrimental and someone banned from those would be more likely to leave Lemmy, or violate the will of admins by evading those bans on new accounts.

Removed by mod

I can see a (good faith) admin as wanting to do a 1 year ban instead of permanent in hopes that in a year a person will reflect on their actions and have a different outlook when it expires. Though yeah in this case it’s probably just to make people not go as far as they could in calling it out, so they can say “it’s not that bad, it’s a temporary ban”.

Absolutely PTB, it’s one thing to silence a user for personal beliefs that go against the admins in the communities on that server (which is also PTB in and of itself) but it’s a whole other level to do it to someone for actions outside of those communities or the instance.

This type of thing is unfortunately common on lemmy.ml, I’m kind of surprised there aren’t more posts here calling them out on it.

It will federate if he carefully chooses to reply only to people who aren’t on Lemmy.ml, since it is their homeserver that handles the federation of those comment replies. I know because I’ve seen users who are site-banned from an instance and can still comment and have it appear in other instances because they were replying to someone who wasn’t on the server they were site banned on.

CC: @holo@lemmy.wtf @cm0002@lemmy.world

I’m sorry but the start a new instance argument people throw around to dismiss moderation issues is a stupid one. Why? Because on federated systems like Lemmy, the instance that has the bigger slice of the pie (most users, most active communities) has the most control and power. Meaning the biggest platforms have the ability to kill your Fediverse experience almost completely, and starting a new server or joining another one won’t help you if you’re banned (I’m assuming you’re not going for intentional ban evasion) and if you’re being censored, it also won’t help you because they’ll still censor you from the majority of the fediverse. If they’re big and powerful enough they may even get others to join them in defederating your instance, making the impact that much bigger.

So while it is technecally true to say that Fediverse platforms are decentralized, I think it is dishonest and disingenuous to try and frame moderation issues like the ones with Lemmy.world or lemmy.ml as ones that can be solved by starting your own server, or migrating to another server. They can’t, because those servers control a larger portion of the pie, as in the communities and the userbase available.

So you believe that shit BP made up about us watching our carbon footprints so they can blame us for climate change? If so then shut the fuck up, because you don’t actually care about stopping or reducing climate change, if you’re going to advocate for the solutions that were literally made up by the oil companies so we wouldn’t protest them and/or get their business BANNED, which is how these problems are actually solved.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/23/big-oil-coined-carbon-footprints-to-blame-us-for-their-greed-keep-them-on-the-hook

I was thinking exactly that, she is certainly behaving very similarly to how Beaver did back in the day and is absolutely power-tripping now. If banning people who criticize the mod’s posts in any way is power-tripping, then accusing people of being fake vegans for disagreeing is absolutely power tripping.

PTB for sure, they’re removing comments not 100% in support of them which is iffy, but now they are trying to decide that people aren’t real vegans because they don’t agree with the mods, WTF?!?

Also is it just me or does this mod seem like they might be an Alt of Beaver (a previous mod of the Vegan community who was removed from the community for power-tripping) was known for making alts and trying to sneak herself back in as mod a few times with her alts, as well as fostering ill will towards the mod who removed her using her alt accounts. She ultimately deleted her accounts after being called out for the behavior and when these tactics weren’t working.

@TheTechnician27@lemmy.world Maybe you might want to look into this, it’s very possible the person who was power-tripping before was somehow able to get back in as a mod on an alt account without you or other mods knowing it was them.

There’s a word that describes communities like that, echochambers.

Torrents-CSV looks really good. It would be great if they had a search plugin for that honestly. It’s just nice to be able to initiate downloads from Qbittorent itself.

I think this is less meant for long term torrent sharing and more meant for people to use the BitTorrent protocol to share stuff with each other. They’re only sharing it with a small group of people.

It’s not like a traditional private tracker where it’s a group of people, or a public one where it’s the whole world.

Also a lot of the recent posts are nonsense. Not like making points that are wrong, but are nonsensical and meaningless. Like one post which is just a picture of a phone running windows claiming Linux is configurable.

If one wanted to criticize Linux that is absolutely the wrong way to do it.

Hmm yeah, that makes sense. Some things there could be considered spam as well, the same way that someone making nonsensical meaningless posts would be not okay (posts like this would probably be considered in that category, and this is most of all that’s been posted there lately).

@kersploosh@lemmy.world What do you think? Does this seem like it goes against LW’s TOS or User conduct rules? Personally I feel like !linuxsucks@lemmy.world is skirting the boundary but there’s times it goes too far.

Which ones does it violate, maybe we should get lemmy.world admins on this. I mean they’ve acted on his community before when he used an ableist slur, but they don’t seem to have done much else lately. Though they also might not be aware of how much it has devolved.

Didn’t he lock the community and begin locking every post to keep people from replying? How are people still getting banned if they’re not able to post or comment there anymore?

PTB lemmy.ml communities have a lot of powertripping, sometimes by mods of the communties, sometimes the instance admins themselves. They do not like nuance or disagreement with their narrative of any kind.

This issue has been resolved for 3 months, the mod contacted me and apologized that it was a mistake.

it can also be read as a clumsy misspelling of “idiot” which is probably why I’ve never seen someone use that acronym. Acronyms or shortenings are meant to make things simpler, but at a glance people might just think you’re calling me an idiot.

Though even if they get it, they still almost certainly don’t agree with you, and I can’t say I blame them.

It’s not satire if you intend it to be true but only say it’s satire later when being called out. Intent is very clear here. If your original post was satire you wouldn’t have started this thread wit the title “liberal mods can’t handle me”