cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25427659
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Legitimately think that they simply did not think the proposal through. It was pretty nakedly an attempt to push back at radical echo-chamber communities, without understanding that rules cut both ways, and in the process of trying to justify and clarify it without being 'ideological', managed to just highlight how absurd the proposed rule was to begin with.
The two big problems with .world's admins is that they're very much amateurs (which is a hard thing to avoid in our scenario here), and that they, like many centrists, have trouble discerning where their ideology begins and ends. They feel the need to phrase things in 'fair' and non-discriminatory terms, but in doing so, often blunder into self-contradictory positions, because ultimately, discrimination (in the sense of discerning and marking) between views is what all rules are based on. The kind of "The law is the law" attitude that people who are accustomed to following, but not making, law, are prone to. One hopes that a mixture of experience and pushback will improve them, with time.
But yeah, had they implemented that, they'd go more auth and right, and I'd probably be packing up all my comms to go to another instance. Again.
I'm going to quote @[email protected] on their comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/14430767
Yeah, basically. Which is why the pushback is important, and, though it reflects a serious paucity of understanding, it's also good that they're willing to retract in response to pushback.
They're slow learners, and perhaps everyone is in a position of power, but we'll see if we can teach them.
Do they even want to learn? Sometimes I see threads like this in [email protected], when they're wrong, they double down on it, then a bunch of people tell them they are incorrect again, and they never answer: https://lemmy.world/comment/14411568
JordanLund is widely agreed to be a poor mod in terms of their inability to handle conflict, man. Don't know what kind of response you're looking for.
Just questioning that he's still on the community team of the instance that hosts the vast majority of Lemmy: https://fedihosting.foundation/lw-team/#lw-group
It feels like every week there is a post about him on [email protected]
He isn't the worst mod, but certainly has the biggest negative impact because of the communities he mods.
It was (unintentionally) the best thing they could do to show users it was a terrible blanket rule and also showed that they weren't smart enough to notice it was a terrible idea before making it public.
I could see that. I legit thought it was a good proposal to suggest at least this part:
Edit: I was probably overstating the case - it could be good, I suppose? Then again, why not leave it to the mods to decide what they want for their own communities? Yet the instance admins should also have a say what kinds of communities exist on their instance, especially if legality of content is part of the issue. It's definitely a balancing act no matter what.
Especially in light of some of the stuff that came before. But it definitely went off the deep end with the likes of:
Woah, not the best choice of words there perhaps even if the concept itself was meant legitimately.
I would really hate to see the mods of e.g. [email protected] have to put up with crap like that, or as you said it's more likely that they would simply step down as mods, and then hopefully migrate the community elsewhere. Unlike the debacle with 196, such a move there would be fully supported by the community members, in that case, I have zero doubts.
All you need to consider whether 'just let people post and you have to accept it' is a good idea is to think about the worst thing people could post. Flat earth was supposed to be an example of harmless stuff that was being koderated, but the blanket rule also applies to people promoting 'age is just a number' and 'white people are superior' and '[minority group] should be exterminated'.
They could have made it clear that you have to allow opposing views that don't promote harm to others, but based on their response to the pushback I don't think they thought that far ahead.
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Agreed.
I literally missed the whole kerfuffle and am very glad I did.
Pardon me while I lol
In your defense, it is freaking hilarious 😂
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I thought a centrist was someone between "Don't be Stalin" and "Don't be Hitler."
We are discussing in a thread about the political compass, so even strictly going by the meaning of the word "centrist" it wouldn't put you only on one axis in the authoritarian half.
But in reality a "centrist" is usually referring to someone in support of the status quo or at least someone that doesn't want to rock the boat too hard. Where exactly that person falls in the ideological spectrum can vary widely between countries, and even if they are not outright conservative in their expressed opinions, the very act of preferring the status quo makes them structurally conservative.
Something like 80-95% of people on planet earth are centrists, so yeah.
Though to reactionaries on social media, it's considered a pejorative term I suppose? Like people who dare to use something other than ~~Arch~~ Linux, even if required to at work.
We haven't quite left behind the "enragement increases profits" mindset that we all were taught on Reddit, to allow for more nuancer POVs other than "oThEr SiDe BaD". Meh, it's human nature.