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[email protected] mod suppresses criticisms of fediverse spam campaign, using mass ban technique to silence opposing viewpoints (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the [email protected] community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of...

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Oh man, I am so happy I blocked that community months ago because I just have no interest in it or their diet.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

At this point we should turn Rule 5 into it's own joke. Bad vibes? Rule 5. I don't like you? Rule 5. I'm having a bad day? Rule 5. The great servers need a sacrifice? Rule 5. Bitching about Rule 5? Believe it or not, Rule 5.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Rule 5

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm not vegan, but honestly I can understand. As soon as you have an opinion which is not the one of the majority, your posts, even in thematic spaces, are heavily downvoted, and it's tiring. I'm not conservative, I disagree with the posts in c/conservative, buy why would I downvote the things they publish there? A lot of Lemmy members do, however. Same with c/vegan or the religious communities.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The Fediverse seems a lot "bubblier" than Reddit, with people quicker to hit the downvote button for views that intrude. I've lost a lot of drive to engage here, I find myself often dropping a comment into a discussion and then never looking back at it. Unfortunate, but I suppose not too surprising when communities are smaller.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

It's "vegans" like this that make the entire movement look bad. They need to be removed as a mod. The movement needs to be honest by letting free and equal exchange of ideas and viewpoints

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (10 children)

Justified ban imo. You weren't there to discuss veganism as a vegan, you were there for drama. It's not spam when they make a lot of posts to their own community. Unless the content is hateful, the correct response is to block.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The heck is going on?

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (5 children)

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

What was the name of that mod on reddit with 5k communities? I remember they were very well known, but it's been a long time since having an account there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It sounds crazy to hear someone mods 5k communities or 108 until you put eyes on them and realize most are dead, functionally dead, or memes. I modded 100+ subreddits on reddit when I was there, the drop in population after about the fifth was massive. After about 15 or so we were at truly inconsequential populations.