I just see a bunch of people who used to like the community now saying the mods are evil and power tripping and stuff. It’s the an actual reason? Why do we hate the mods over one small decision? Is it not as small as I realize?
Idk it just feels really shitty seeing people in the new blahaj 196 brigade the new community the mods set up, do you really have to downvote everything here just bc you disagree with the mods? I don’t think .world was the best choice, but Ada is real bad for power tripping and permabanning people for dissenting opinions sometimes, and I respect the decision to move. I’m not big on being banned bc I dared question whether or not trump (the guy who cheated last election) cheated, so the move is very much good news imo. What really is the issue here?
Some people don’t feel safe on lemmy.world. Some people haven’t felt safe on lemmy.world for a long time. In my view, lemmy.world is not, in general, a safe instance for LGBTQ people, people with pro-Palestinian views, and leftists who refuse to bend the knee to neoliberal impositions, amongst others. It’s basically trying to be Reddit 2.0.
Some people aren’t even federated with lemmy.world but were/are federated with Blahaj. Same reasons as above.
Some people see this as further centralization of the Fediverse. Because it is. Even if lemmy.world was otherwise perfect, we don’t need yet another huge community dependent on their servers and their people.
Alternatively some people don’t feel safe on .blahaj because they will ban you for not agreeing with their mods. Which is also just how reddit works in the smaller communities.
If the mods don’t want people to move then they don’t have to make decisions that make people want to move.
Tbf there’s no instance one could go to where they aren’t liable to be banned for looking at a mod wrong, it’s just about what flavor of power trip you want from your mods. .world is no exception, but I haven’t been permabanned from much there (other than a couple permas I earned bc I was an asshole there)
To be fair we did have a mod I think a year ago on LBZ that we removed because they weren’t putting any reasoning for bans. Technically they stepped down, but that was after a discussion on our chat. I’m not going to blindly back up anyone in the mod team with me just because we volunteer together. If someone does something shitty I’m going to say something.
I’m not sure that agree with SoftTeeth though (jfc that name is horrifying). I haven’t seen anyone getting banned for not agreeing with mods. If anything I think we’re a little too sensitive about banning people that don’t agree with us. I’ve reported people who blew up at me in comments sections rather than just removing/banning because I don’t want people to think that we ban people who disagree with us.