Reddit power tripping mods migrated en masse to lemmy.world and recreated another Reddit environment there ! glad the fedivere isn't constrained to big servers. but this is still a big problem to resolve as those mods make it hard to engage in conversations with communities that are solely hosted on their instances.

[–] Emperor@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks ago

with communities that are solely hosted on their instances.

This is the beauty of the Fediverse. If you don't like the way a community is being run, start a new one. It's a drum @Blaze@feddit.org has been beating for a while.

As a matter of principle we should be wary of centralisation and think carefully about where to start a community. I'd also suggest starting communities elsewhere if the main one is on lemmy.ml.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Hold up a sec, now you're just smearing people

It's just a mod in a COMMUNITY, lemmy.world has been pretty free-speech friendly

I would be more careful of BeeHaw & Sh.itjust.works & Lemmy.cafe, if you wanted to raise suspicions

Also, There's Mbin/Kbin & PieFed as alternatives to Lemmy

[–] towerful@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Beehaw gets a pass because they are trying to make a safe space. It's literally their motive. The mods there have repeatedly said they are anti-free-speech, but they are massively inclusive (until that inclusivity hurts someone else, IE they don't include transphobes, homophobes, Nazis etc).
Beehaw is a really friendly and welcoming place, they have great discussions, posts etc. Just... Treat everyone like a human, and don't be a cunt.

[–] Aux@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Surprisingly Beehaw is more welcoming than LW. LW is just full of power tripping ex-Redditors. I'd actually say that Reddit is better these days. It's mind boggling...

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Beehaw is more welcoming, but them not federating LW and SJW probably removes 90% of the Lemmy content to their users.

Also, they don't plan to update to newer Lemmy versions, which also prevents their users from using new features like instance blocking.

[–] towerful@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Again, that's their game plan.

Federating with certain instances increases their moderators workload. Their moderators/admins are expected to perform at a high level (provide a safe place).
Beehaw respects their moderators/admins. So without the adequate moderation tools, defederation is pretty much their only option.
They are considering other community platforms. They are hoping federation/Lemmy works for them, but they aren't willing to compromise on their community goals

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I am aware they want to switch to another software, and that's fine.

It just seems a bit ironic that they complained a lot in the past (and rightfully so) about the lack of moderation tools, but now they don't offer their users a very powerful one: user-level instance blocking.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be more careful of BeeHaw & Sh.itjust.works & Lemmy.cafe, if you wanted to raise suspicions

What do you mean? I've used Lemmy.cafe for a while, never noticed anything worrying. Same for SJW.

Beehaw has been addressed in the other comment.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I've just banned everyone from SJW. /s

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks, at least now it's clear!

Ultimate power tripping move ha ha

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I recall seeing a /conservative sub on .world but it has been removed. What happened to it?

[–] Aux@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 weeks ago

Nah, lemmy.world admins are fucking lunatics.