Yes indeed but despite their more extreme beliefs compared to the average lemmings, they are quite lenient and accepting with lemmy.ml. I wouldn’t call the devs insane, solely for the fact that they gladly welcomed all the Reddit immigrants despite that they get numerous hate posts about their ideology.
Just to clarify, I’m just a normal libcenter guy, not an extremist.
Lemmy.ml is run by the developers of Lemmy. They align with lemmygrad, however they try to keep their politics out of lemmy.ml. How successful they are with that is another matter.
As of a few months ago, lemmygrad is run by them as well. I don’t remember the specifics, but there was talk of some form of taking over every other Lemmy instance as well (I know there were calls for it from at least one of the tankie communities, either lemmygrad or hexbear), and the general hostility of both lemmygrad and hexbear users was why many instances defederated from them at that time.
But most of the moderation is done by community moderators, not admin. So it isn’t necessarily the face of the instance but the face of each individual community.
However, if the moderator doesn’t assign their username to the moderation action, then you can’t really tell who’s done it. It just says “mod”, but it could be a community moderator, or it could be an admin. I can understand a mod not wanting to publish their username with the action, but it should still at least tell you what capacity they were acting under. Generally, I think instance admin are more sensible (with the exception of hexbear).
Also, when you load the instance modlog you’ll end up seeing moderation from every other instance, and it doesn’t even tell you which community it refers to most of the time.
Edit: Here’s another quirk: it’s possible for someone on one instance to moderate in a completely different instance. I actually have had some moderation on lemmy.ml, but it was a comment in lemmygrad. The comment is still visible to me and I don’t see it in the modlog on lemm.ee (my instance) or lemmygrad.ml, but on lemmy.ml the comment has been removed and it shows up in their modlog.
The open modlog is amazing, however the only trouble is it’s often impossible to tell who is doing the moderation. It could be the community mods, it could be the admin. I can understand not wanting to show the specific user that performed moderation, but I think it should at least tell you what capacity the moderator was working under.
Admin have ultimate control over their instance. However, they should try to set reasonable expectations for users, as otherwise users will leave. Admin tend to be sensible, with the prime exception being hexbear.
Community mods have free reign over the community, but must act within the rules of the instance. Thus, if the rules of the instance allow it, then a community mod may have every right to ban you for any reason they like - even if you broke no community rules. The idea being: if users don’t like the moderation they can easily set up their own, competing community (just like how reddit was supposed to work, eg how r/anime_titties was created for news because r/worldnews moderation was crap).
I’m sure there are dodgy mods on lemmy.ml, but I’m not aware of the admin performing bad moderation.
Lemmygrad and Lemmyml are run by the same insane people…
Yes indeed but despite their more extreme beliefs compared to the average lemmings, they are quite lenient and accepting with lemmy.ml. I wouldn’t call the devs insane, solely for the fact that they gladly welcomed all the Reddit immigrants despite that they get numerous hate posts about their ideology.
Just to clarify, I’m just a normal libcenter guy, not an extremist.
My multiple bans would suggest otherwise, you either get downvoted or banned. They really don’t like it when people actually agree with you.
That wouldn’t have anything to do with you being an obnoxious dink, would it?
Can you tell me an example? I find no reason hating someone if they agree with you.
I mean, if you make a comment arguing against their weird commie POV and it actually gets traction, they don’t like it one bit.
Huh, didn’t know that. Lemmyml seemed totally fine though?
Lemmy.ml is run by the developers of Lemmy. They align with lemmygrad, however they try to keep their politics out of lemmy.ml. How successful they are with that is another matter.
Well, I’ve never come across anything that made me notice, which is certainly a good thing.
As of a few months ago, lemmygrad is run by them as well. I don’t remember the specifics, but there was talk of some form of taking over every other Lemmy instance as well (I know there were calls for it from at least one of the tankie communities, either lemmygrad or hexbear), and the general hostility of both lemmygrad and hexbear users was why many instances defederated from them at that time.
If you want to see the face of a instance, look in the modlog.
But most of the moderation is done by community moderators, not admin. So it isn’t necessarily the face of the instance but the face of each individual community.
However, if the moderator doesn’t assign their username to the moderation action, then you can’t really tell who’s done it. It just says “mod”, but it could be a community moderator, or it could be an admin. I can understand a mod not wanting to publish their username with the action, but it should still at least tell you what capacity they were acting under. Generally, I think instance admin are more sensible (with the exception of hexbear).
Also, when you load the instance modlog you’ll end up seeing moderation from every other instance, and it doesn’t even tell you which community it refers to most of the time.
Edit: Here’s another quirk: it’s possible for someone on one instance to moderate in a completely different instance. I actually have had some moderation on lemmy.ml, but it was a comment in lemmygrad. The comment is still visible to me and I don’t see it in the modlog on lemm.ee (my instance) or lemmygrad.ml, but on lemmy.ml the comment has been removed and it shows up in their modlog.
The open modlog is amazing, however the only trouble is it’s often impossible to tell who is doing the moderation. It could be the community mods, it could be the admin. I can understand not wanting to show the specific user that performed moderation, but I think it should at least tell you what capacity the moderator was working under.
Admin have ultimate control over their instance. However, they should try to set reasonable expectations for users, as otherwise users will leave. Admin tend to be sensible, with the prime exception being hexbear.
Community mods have free reign over the community, but must act within the rules of the instance. Thus, if the rules of the instance allow it, then a community mod may have every right to ban you for any reason they like - even if you broke no community rules. The idea being: if users don’t like the moderation they can easily set up their own, competing community (just like how reddit was supposed to work, eg how r/anime_titties was created for news because r/worldnews moderation was crap).
I’m sure there are dodgy mods on lemmy.ml, but I’m not aware of the admin performing bad moderation.