I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.

  • OpenStars@piefed.social
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    8 hours ago

    Tbf, that admin telling someone to kill themselves wasn’t exactly a high mark for their ethics imho.

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      8 hours ago

      It isn’t a high mark, I agree. But while the “kill you are self lol.” thing could be just an admin in a really shitty day, this lack of transparency is consistent behaviour.

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        8 hours ago

        I get what you are saying: shittiness that happens daily is a more consistent pattern than something that happens ONCE.

        On the other hand, an admin telling someone to literally kill themselves is such an extreme event that it might be grounds for their removal as an admin?

        It’s an age-old philosophy problem: which is worse, stealing daily vs. actually killing someone once?

        Or is that a trick question, since both are kinda shitty, no?

        In any case, what happens when someone does BOTH of them?

        The answer is ofc literally nothing, when said person is protected by the instance admins who are also the developers of this codebase. I wonder what would have happened though if Huffman was caught saying something similar to the users of Reddit? Yeah, nothing, that’s right - it’s not like we would leave Reddit or anything:-P. (Except I did, and now I’ve left Lemmy too, hello from PieFed!:-D)

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          4 hours ago

          Afaik the admins are the creators of lemmy right? Or are they just the creators of a particular instance? If its the first i would imagine they are the only ones that can de-admin themselves, and if its the latter i would imagine no one can de-admin them

        • Lvxferre@mander.xyz
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          7 hours ago

          Yup, they are both shitty, and grounds to remove an admin.

          However when it’s a single event there’s still the chance that it won’t happen again, as the admin could regret it. There’s still grounds for “this won’t affect me, as a user, in the future”.

          And when it’s both, as you said, it gets even worse.