This unfolded on “United States | News & Politics@midwest.social”. Owner ‘seahorse’ showing the kind of person they are.
This is not how you run a server.
Edit: link to comment:
Confirmed its real, and now I am blocking that instance. Thanks for the info. There is enough content on lemmy, a few instances can be excluded.
I personally think that’s a bit much to block an entire instance over when just one admin is being mildly annoying. Their comment is basically nothing imo lol. Compare that to the OP of this post whose profile picture is a cartoon pony from a children’s show having an orgasm.
Oh I’ll still see those users on different communities, because blocking the instance only stops their threads and communities from showing on my All sorted list
Added a link to the comment in my post. Thanks for reminding me!
Yeah it’s definitely real, I came across it in my feed before seeing this post. Guy seems like a real arsehole.
So server admins are how we get the Reddit mod experience
Welp, just in case I just made !theonion@sh.itjust.works
o7
But it is.
Lemmy isn’t set up to create a set of fairly moderated communities with buy-in from users. It is set up so anyone can be a dictator on their own server.
Yup. But thankfully, it’s also set up so they can quickly become dictators of their own little desert island.
Users can still quickly leave until they found a fair admin
A fair admin for now.
And when the fair become unfair then we move onto the next, as it should be!
I feel like relying on benevolent dictators only to run communities isn’t the best option.
That seems fairly un-hobbity, with all respect.
At some point one instance is going to have democratically elected mods and admins, that would be interesting.
In the meantime yeah, we are still using other people’s servers
Admins are legally responsible for anything that gets posted on their server, so they require control. They also put in time and money to keep the server running.
There may be other technologies where all-powerful admins aren’t necessary, like peer-to-peer networks. But then everything gets much more complicated. No more opening a website and entering username and password, now users need to install a client first and use a private key. It’s not clear who is responsible for moderation. Scaling will be much more difficult. Users don’t want to store gigabytes of historical data on their devices, so some servers are still needed. The way Activitypub and Lemmy works is really a hybrid between normal websites which is a well-known paradigm, and p2p which is still experimental. The p2p part is only done on the server because it would be too complex otherwise.
I’m not saying that admins don’t require control. What I’m saying is that there isn’t an ability to distribute admin and mod duties on Lemmy in a more granular sense. There is only one admin head or one mod head and that can lead to mod issues the same that Reddit had.
I suppose this could be improved, but not sure how exactly. Afaik there is no issue about this yet, and anyway we lack development resources to implement everything. Sometimes I imagine how much we could achieve if Lemmy had 2000 employees like Reddit.
This question has been discussed at length in the thread. If people want to boycott Lemmy and switch to Mbin or Piefed, that’s their choice, but maybe not relevant in this context?
Their comment here is valuable, posting this screenshot every time they comment seems counter productive.
That’s the beautiful thing about lemmy. If I don’t like the current dictator, I can easily switch to a more benevolent leader.
Sorry to hear, I love the Lotr memes community
Never too late to make your own. Especially if enough people decide this is worth blocking the instance entirely.
Thank god we’re doing things on more than world
Yep, that’s mainly why I hopped to it so fast.
Tell me about it
Indeed, but I have enough communities under my belt to be honest 😅
Fair enough. The Onion community had pretty little traffic to begin with so I think I’ll be fine.
yeah i have my problems with midwest. i think a succinct way to put it is that instance does not appreciate the federation process.
“Can’t even downvote in Ohio”
For those who don’t know what this means, but want to, you can read https://www.distractify.com/p/what-does-ohio-mean-slang and https://www.distractify.com/p/only-in-ohio-tiktok-meme.
TLDR it’s a phrase that people use now similar to “Florida man”.
I remember there was a far right mastodon server
Yeah, Truth Social lol
I remember it was smth else
Oh
Is there more context? Was it affiliated with the Lemmy instance?
nah but i remember i was looking at the mastodon blacklisted list
I’ve never blocked an instance.
If I block an instance, that blocks all users too, right?
What does “spits their dummy out” man in this context? Is it just “says dumb shit”?
It’s like a baby throwing a little tantrum, essentially.
…so was this about his take on the Gaza war? That he thought support for Palestine would lead to a loss of democracy?
No they’re saying that’s what people criticizing the protestors are arguing. I think their take is perfectly acceptable but the power tripping is pretty rough
Yeah, I’d have to look into the context but their edit kinda sours it no matter what.
Yeah, exactly. He’s saying that if you vote for Kamala in order to end the genocide in Gaza and prevent Trump from bombing the West Bank, then you’re letting the fascists win and democracy is dead. He thinks we should all be apathetic towards Palestine and do nothing as a show of “symbolic” support for Gazans.
So how do i block an instance?
Settings, last tab iirc
Damn it. Don’t wanna lose our !theonion@midwest.social community
Well, if we do…
