this post was submitted on 28 Apr 2025
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[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Ugh, the comments here are so full of BS and distortions of what really happened ๐Ÿคฆ

So here is the actual tl;dr: Some people asked the main Fosstodon admins what they think about having an openly Trump supporting, islamo- and transphobic moderator in their team and their response was "not here on Fosstodon and not our problem" (paraphrased, but close to their actual response).

That is pretty much like this scenario: lets say you get (credibly) informed about someone openly corrupt in your organization. If your response is: I have not seen them steal money in our organization and our processes should prevent any theft happening, then you are missing the forest for the trees.

If an organization can't get such basic governance issues right and prefers to hide behind a "neutral" stance on something that is really concerning to a large percentage of their members than they irrevocably lose a lot of trust and that is more than justified.

[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (51 children)

As a moderator myself, it's a pretty thankless job. It's a bit like being a politician in that no matter what you do, there are lots of people that are going to hate you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Thank you for your service o7

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It depends on the community. Larger general purpose communities tend towards that, the people who acknowledge you are typically people disputing a ban or who took it personally. On the other hand, for a Lemmy example, look at the admin Ada (and similar examples) who have reasons to regularly communicate their decisions and achievements and are clearly in line with their general community's values โ€“ their community won't have as many people crying about censorship because the community doesn't pretend that they will tolerate bigotry.

Mods who just delete garbage posts (sometimes called "janitors" on other platforms) are typically faceless thankless volunteers, or abusive personalities powertripping. It's a tough job, and someone has to put their hand up for it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago (14 children)

Feel like Im missing a lot of context.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Some kind of mod drama

In recent days, there has been a minor furor across the fediverse related to one of the moderators at fosstodon

From the link in the link

https://coreysnipes.com/thoughts-on-fosstodon.html

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Alas, not everyone on the fediverse is so friendly and welcoming towards people who "express certain political views" by using a position of power to suppress those they disagree with.

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