So yeah... maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
It's not even a standoff, an asshole working at Reddit (probably not even the CEO) fired an unpaid volunteer and they're ugly crying while drinking boxed wine and freaking out about how they're gonna regret letting them go online.
It's entirely one sided and nobody really gives a single shit about this dummy. I hope they get the help they desperately need.
Wouldn't this just encourage alt accounts to get around the rule? You're only hiding it with sockpuppets instead of allowing it to happen transparently.
You could do it per email address, at least on platforms where your account is tied to one. Doesn't stop it, but if you're only allowed to mod 5 communities, you'd need a lot of sock puppet emails to mod 1000+.
If you own a domain, it's trivial to set up a catch-all redirect to your real email address. I, for example, have this account linked to lemmy_world_grue@example.com. With the maximum length of an email address being 254 characters and the "lemmy_world_" and "@example.com" parts taking up 24 characters, I could create up to 350! - 1 (yes, that's a factorial) more usernames, each linked to a corresponding unique address. (Well, give or take any limits Lemmy imposes on username length, anyway.)
They can't do that because they can't necessarily tell the difference between the personal domain of one person and one providing email addresses to multiple people.
Its easier than you think. Email is pretty consolidated around a few big players these days which means about 10 minutes of work querying the database for how many accounts will be impacted and a quick Google to find out what the domain is used for is all you need to decide whether to ban it or not.
We used to do this on IRC quite often before we could even just Google it.
I still think it’s a good idea. You can create alts to get around bans for instance, but it’s a powerful mod tool nonetheless. Most people will see the rule and stop there, and if they don’t then it’s a good way to justify an IP ban for repeat offenders.
As an aside, the thought of the kind of person that would break rules so that they can provide extra unpaid labor makes me queasy.
I would even allow as high as 25, but probably an amount that can be controlled by the instance. But we should stop these 1000+ communities controlled by one mod.
Reddit was always flawed in that reddit mod ranks were based off time added. So you ended up with a few people that own tons, and can just unmoderate everyone below them. So they arent even accountable to their peers. I recall WallStreetBets had an attempted coup for a deal or something.
Given what Lemmy and kbin fundamentally are, open source federations, this can't be done, at least not universally. Instances will set their own rules and other instances cannot directly set those rules. It is impossible to enforce this.
That said, it makes sense for instances to set similar rules, and tools to help are a good idea.
Love how the sycophants act all indignant like they weren't kissing ass and licking boots yesterday. Same fuckers that enacted the will of reddit against normal users now want to be seen as fellow refugees.
I've been disenfranchised by the mods for a long time, so while I don't like seeing what use to be a good thing burn to the ground, it really is rooted at the poor administration overall at the site that allowed abusive moderators to run major subs. This outcome is more akin to the snake eating its own tail, but I agree. These toxic abusive moderators getting booted out of a major vein of public discourse is only going to be a positive.
Sure, I just hope it plays out like that. I can easily imagine a situation where instances or communities get too big to fail. What's the point in creating a splinter community where 10 or 100 users migrate to when all the content and discussion takes place in the original community.
On reddit I had started boringdystopia despite there already being the bigger aboringdystopia because I disliked the moderation. I surprisingly saw decent growth in the sub as well.
So just because there’s a bigger “original” out there, doesn’t mean you can’t do well and make a working community.
Ya but how easy would it be to get people to actually move there. Even tho on Reddit theres a rule against duplicate subs there were ways around that (like "real___" or "___uncensored") but the problem was that some ppl just didnt care about poor conduct and the replacement subs sometime ended up not taking off or being overrun by an extreme group (tho sometime it did work.) So I wonder about that here bc a lot of ppl use that to say this isnt a problem here
trying to encourage a code of morality, as seen in my post for mildly infuriating a few days ago mentioning some of the actions these moderators had done against the community and why they are bad for the health of it.
I hope being one of the large communities it offers a template for those to follow, I might not always get it right but I hope to do my best to eliminate it here. Bad mods ruined reddit.
Bad mods weren't the only thing contributing to the downfall of Reddit. Infact, Id argue most moderators of Reddit were genuinely good and helped foster each subreddit community in a reasonable manner. As with all things that involve humans, there will always be bad actors, but I think overall I had maybe 2 instances I can remember in all my 14 years of Reddit where a bad moderator removed content because they didnt agree with it.
That's the one thing I like a great deal, is the decentralization. I'm sure at some point we'll see heavy manipulation across the Fediverse but it will be of a different nature. If mods start running a fiefdom on a major instance, just leave the instance.
Turtle is the most drama-seeking person I've seen on Reddit and I've been there a long time. They always seek out drama and then screenshot it and post it to r/CenturyClubDrama. They contribute like 80% of the total posts to that sub. They also post really long rants and then ban the person they're ranting at so the person can't comment back. Don't be like turtle.
That fucking CenturyClub bullshit; I lasted about 2 days after getting invited to the subreddit a few years ago. What a morass of powermod drama queens and groupthink twats. For some god-unknown reason, I got an re-invite during the protest blackouts from one of their mods, no clue why. Because they were going to talk me out of shutting down a +1M sub?
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