After being harassed in multiple discord channels by powermod FlyingSquid the news mod blackbeard has shuttered his account and moved to bluesky.

https://ibb.co/cY44MgF

https://lemmy.world/u/Blackbeard

"The recklessness with which people downvote polite disagreements reminds me of all the worst parts of Reddit, and it proves to me that this isn’t the social media savior I’d hoped it would be, and is instead just another echo chamber. I hope eventually lemmy.world (and the fediverse more broadly) can grow out of that, but some of the behavior I’ve seen on the inside from both mods and admins doesn’t really inspire much confidence for that kind of evolution in the short term. "

FlyingSquid is the same mod who has the power to siteban people from lemmy.world

Why does lemmy.world keep having issues with their powermods and admins? Why do powermods get the ability to siteban their enemies from the largest instance?

    • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat
      377·
      1 month ago

      It is not misinformation to say that Kamala Harris is the commander in chief of the largest military force in the world and she is overseeing a genocide.

      That is textbook misinformation.

      • Kamala Harris is not the commander in chief, Biden is.
      • Kamala Harris is not “overseeing” anything in Gaza. Netanyahu is overseeing the genocide, Biden is arming it for some reason, and Kamala Harris is a whole different person running a political campaign to be able to make decisions about what we’re going to do now that our ally has apparently decided to kill millions of people who didn’t do anything wrong.

      The linkage of Kamala Harris with the genocide in Gaza, persistently and disingenuously, with an apparently-successful outcome of greatly increasing the genocide by putting Trump in charge instead, is one major type of misinformation on Lemmy. If you were coming and saying “It is not misinformation to say that Kamala Harris hasn’t even condemned the genocide and is losing Arab voters because of her attempt to waffle on this crystal-clear issue,” then that wouldn’t be misinformation, whether I agreed with it personally or not. But going off into factual la-la land in order to accomplish your political goals for any particular discussion is absolutely misinformation. Thank you for providing a good example.

        • TʜᴇʀᴀᴘʏGⒶʀʏ⁽ᵗʰᵉʸ‘ᵗʰᵉᵐ⁾@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          123·
          1 month ago

          I’m largely on your side here but

          Biden literally vanishes for weeks at a time. Biden is a walking corpse who doesn’t make any decisions, they have to stuff him full of Adderall to get him to do anything

          Source? This sounds like Republican propaganda

          And just to be clear- I feel that a vote for either Harris or Trump was a vote for genocide

          • Hamartia@lemmy.world
            15·
            1 month ago

            I’m with you on this Lukacs is a something of a mirror image of the partisan twits he’s railing against.

            FS needs to calm down and have their abusive and manipulative actions there underlined so that they can learn from them and move on.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.world
      124·
      1 month ago

      Tell me you don’t know what the Vice President does without telling me you don’t know what the Vice President does.

      This is exactly the sort of misinformation I remove from Politics on a daily basis.

      There is a PUBLIC PROCESS for Harris to become President:

      https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/politics/kamala-harris-presidential-power/index.html

      "To officially transfer the presidential powers to Harris, Biden sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the president pro tempore of the Senate, at 10:10 a.m. ET before going under anesthesia.

      The letter reads: “Today I will undergo a routine medical procedure requiring sedation. In view of present circumstances, I have determined to transfer temporarily the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States to the Vice President during the brief period of the procedure and recovery.”"