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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

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I cannot repost what Flying Squid was posting here, because it involved highly disturbing and dangerous content, including:

Content WarningGraphic content, harassment, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which I reported immediately.

While this behavior is shocking, it’s not completely out of left field, as members of this community and platform will already be familiar with their behavior. Flying Squid has long been regarded as one of the least productive and most problematic mods on all of Lemmy, often picking fights and abusing their mod privileges. I view this change as a positive step for Squid, .world, and Lemmy as a whole.

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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 8 points 22 hours ago (14 children)

jordanlund is still around who is like squid’s slightly less chaotic yet just as unproductive twin. i will certainly be sticking to !world@quokk.au for now.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 18 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (9 children)

I can second !world@quokk.au along with !usa@ponder.cat and !politics@sh.itjust.works, and !technology@lemmy.zip.

I never understood the beef with FlyingSquid. Every time I heard this hue and cry about how he was abusing his powers, I asked for details, and it turned out the details were that he sent one rude message to one user, months ago, or that he liked to argue with people. Whatever. If he's now in a bad place I hope he gets some help. Life is fragile.

Jordan is too nice, and too much pretend-objective behind a supposedly objective set of rules, in my opinion. He tends to allow clearly toxic people and behavior, as exemplified by you-know-who, as long as they are careful not to violate any of the written rules more than twice or three times a week. There's nothing wrong with being nice but in some positions of authority it can wind up getting abused.

Jeffw is great. To me the epitome of his style as far as I can tell was when people starting complaining about the fact check bot, and he said "Oh, you don't like it? We'll remove it then." Why it was ever some kind of more complex other operation besides that, everywhere else, is why I no longer chill with lemmy.world.

I have mostly moved on from the LW communities and I would recommend that you do the same, so I care very little about all of this, just tossing in my opinion in passing.

Edit: Removed the suspect instance, replaced it with blatant shameless self-promotion.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I can second !world@quokk.au along with !usa@midwest.social and !politics@sh.itjust.works, and !technology@lemmy.zip.

Good choices, but Midwest.social admin is known for power tripping: https://feddit.org/post/5548029?scrollToComments=true

Are you aware of any other community for US news?

[–] nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago

!newsondb0@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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