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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama

Tags: fediverse news, lemmy news, lemmyverse

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[email protected] mod suppresses criticisms of fediverse spam campaign, using mass ban technique to silence opposing viewpoints (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the [email protected] community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of...

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (4 children)

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

What was the name of that mod on reddit with 5k communities? I remember they were very well known, but it's been a long time since having an account there.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It sounds crazy to hear someone mods 5k communities or 108 until you put eyes on them and realize most are dead, functionally dead, or memes. I modded 100+ subreddits on reddit when I was there, the drop in population after about the fifth was massive. After about 15 or so we were at truly inconsequential populations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I do wonder however if it suggests things about a person, that they moderate that many communities. For instance, is it indicative of power seeking behavior?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I do not recall, but they must have received a very large paycheck each month!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

IIRC it was more that they paid to be a mod. Someone had money to burn.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Could have been any of a few dozen.

That being said, there were a couple that were automod only mods. They'd get added to help set up and maintain automod, and never do anything else.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago

They're not worth mentioning