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My experience as the original mod of this community. - lemm.ee

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My experience as the original mod of this community. - Reddthat

Dunno if it really fits here, but I figured it was worth sharing and there isn't anywhere else it would go

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I found this really relatable, as someone who used to be a mod on a Lemmy instance before I basically got run out of the server I was on by intolerant bigots. Everything came to a head with this brigade on the server's admin (who is a good dude as far as I can tell):
https://feddit.nl/post/30629695
https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40329206
Leading up to this, leftist trolls had been brigading my communities, throwing fits about me sharing left wing articles and flooding my posts with downvotes. I didn't mind the downvotes because Lemmy is a leftist platform at the end of the day, but did make a rule against "I don't like that website" comments because it amounted to spam.
It is difficult to cultivate flourishing communities centered around news, current events, or politics on Lemmy that isn't a BlueAnon echo chamber. This is why I am here (using Lotide) and don't plan on using Lemmy again anytime soon. The community is far too toxic and propagandized to be a healthy place for political discourse.
- Technically, lemmy is just using a protocol that allows it to federate with other people using that protocol. Many of the leftist went to Lemmy because they were kicked off the other platforms for the Nazi Bar Problem. The developers of lemmy didn't create the protocol. They are using Lemmy as their version of the software using that protocol. The same protocol used by threads, etc
  
  Fair enough, I really am speaking of Lemmy so broadly because 99% of Lemmy instances are leftist. Culturally and politically it is wayyyyyyy more homogeneous than even Mastodon.
- well said! Just the fact that a lot of Lemmy says that "Reddit is too Right-Leaning" for them, tells you just how bad it is here. Reddit of all places, being too right leaning?! Give me a break! lololol Reddit is want of the biggest anti-conservative places out there. lol
  Even my girlfriend, who hates Trump and conservatives, gets sick of all the anti-trump and anti-conservative stuff on reddit. lol
- Wow, I just read all of the stuff in those links. This stood out: @bdonvr, admin of The Lemmy Club has, in my opinion, responded in good faith to the concerns raised in this post, and so I have withdrawn my proposal for defederation. In summary: They will no longer be allowing conservative/right wing communities on their instance
  So much for Lemmy being all about diversity. lol
  I wouldn't be surprised at all if this eventually happens to my communities, but so far the admin has been amazing and truly believes in diversity. But I'm sure that people will keep hammering on him.
  
  some of the people try to bully to control the content which really just destroys what the fediverse is supposed to be.
This was a good read.
Do I post too often in the communities I engage in?
- Post as often as you want.
- I don't think you do. You're not overwhelming anything, and I think that's the main thing.
  
  That's good to know, thanks.
This right here sums it up nicely:
The whole shtick with Fediseer is to pressure instances into falling in line under threat of defederation. It's reasonably effective, most small instances would struggle when cut off from chunks of the federated network they're trying to be a part of.
I also think most Admins probably hope to get some money coming in through donations, and you need to be reasonably vanilla and attract new people for that to work.
We really don't need donations to keep running, in fact we don't even ask. I'll be damned if I let some random Internet dude with an over-inflated sense of self-importance tell me who I can or can't allow on the instance I run as a hobby, as to not offend his political sensibilities.
@realcaseyrollins@narwhal.city I meant this as a reply to your post but failed.
- The problem with the grouping of servers running lemmy is they are the Nazi problem. I am not an overly political person, I lean right but I call it more common sense and personal responsibility. On Lemmy, they turn everything political and rarely have a sense of humor. It's why most of them were kicked off other platforms because of their extreme views.
  If you have ever watched silicon valley, you will understand the issues with the fediverse.
They legit stole his community from him. And then laughed about it. So much for Lemmy celebrating diversity.
But I'm happy to see that there are some more conservatives coming to Lemmy. !Conservative2@lemmy.today is a new comm started by a more moderate conservative.
He doesn't like me and was so annoyed by my community that he started his own. I don't mind it though and I think the more conservative voices the better.
I did warn him to be careful of takeovers and that he'll have to be sure to mod every single day or he can lose it. He wasn't super friendly to my advice though. But hopefully he sticks around.
He's about to find out just how hateful the alt-left of Lemmy can be though.
- Unlike the Democrats, we are not a monolithic group. We don't share a single brain.

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