Having dealt with spam waves ourselves we are certainly understanding of the situation! I read your status updates and what has been going on. That is also why we choose to close the problematic communities/magazines instead of defederating.
We really hope that you find the time and peace to resolve these things. There is no bad will here, we know that these things need time. If there is anything we can do to help feel free to reach out.
Instead of mentioning your instance so we can help you you seem to have other motives.
Edit: but if you want the logic. We had discussions internally as well as with other instance admins about this and the conclusion was - even from other instance admins - that closing registrations would be a bad idea. Currently a lot of people are sent to lemmy.world from reddit and 3rd party apps for example. If people land here and are not able to register they might not look into it further and give up because it is too complicated or overwhelming. So that would actually be worse for the fediverse. That is why we want to make the sign up page more informative and provide options.
We are not ‘dropping’ messages from smaller instances. @ruud and others did tighten up some things to fend off some attacks but that should not interfere with the federation.
If you could have at least mentioned your instance name we could ask our backend administrators to have a look and we could get back to you with an informed answer.
We will not close registrations, what we will do is show people information on how the fediverse works and give them the option to register on other instances. That will be implemented in the next couple of days.
You know enough about ‘MAP’ to bring it up and pretend it’s no biggie and could become a thing? Those aren’t marginalized people this is a piss-poor attempt to lump Pedos with the LGBTQ crowd. Off you go
I replied to you a bit lower here too and this will also be my last post about this because if you don’t understand it now you never will and i will accept that.
Izzy came back from another account to say their goodbyes, as they no longer wish to be involved anyway. This post seems to have disappeared.
All Izzy’s accounts are banned. And the reason they posted was not to say “that they didn’t wish to be involved any longer” because that’s a bit after-the-fact right. They wanted to cause more drama.
Then a bit later, admin came to SF to make a post looking for new mods. When people brought up the situation, they locked the thread.
I posted what we had to say and closed the thread immediately after. You are twisting the timeline of events to use it in your favor, pure sensationalism.
You seem to feel a certain way about the admins on this instance. You are a moderator and you would be welcome to interact with others in our moderator discord server and at least make an informed post but seemingly you prefer not to interact with the others and instead to make up your own version of things.
But to end this on a positive note, we had people reach out to become moderators on !sciencefiction and we’ll hook them up with eachother so they can get things going again.
That it was about the same thing every time does not mean it wasn’t harassment. You got your answer when you came on matrix but you didn’t seem to understand that we expect moderators of communities to be respectful to others. How can they moderate a community and be acting like that? And now you are here as if we didn’t take time for you to explain things.
And saying “sync users are more toxic” is something you said on matrix yesterday too which was like… definitely A take.
This was a case of harassment from one user to another. That one is a developer of a successful app and the other is the moderator of a successful community has nothing to do with it. Izzy was asked on numerous occasions to stop derailing every conversation and stop targeting the user. You can not like something, you can be critical of something but at least try to be constructive. They were relentless. And when a warning was given by the admin they came back guns blazing, now also making accusations towards the admin team.
We have NO financial connection to Sync. We do not accept ANY money or other incentives from anyone exactly for this reason also, about how it might look if things go south.
Normally we don’t talk about the bans in public because whatever we say people will twist the story make their own versions of it and run with it. So I posted what we had to say about that and locked the thread.
So finally I just want to say that it is unfortunate what happened but there were MANY occasions where Izzy was offered the chance to prevent this from happening. And as a moderator of a big community he has to be an example. Moderators should be held to a higher standard than normal users.
I didn’t want to remove it out of a kneejerk reaction. They had this in their sidebar:
Rule #6: Banned subjects include pro-Nazi and/or pro-racist sentiments; support for conspiracy theories such as Q-Anon, International Jewish Conspiracy, Holocaust denialism, etc.; “is X the mark of the Beast?” drivel; anything calling for direct/indirect violence against any individual or group, including LGBTQ+ individuals or groups; pornography of any kind; gore; spam; asking for money; pro-Mormon and/or pro-Jehovah’s Witness posts.
Edit: they can repeal this decision. If they remove that line from their rules and live by it we are up to having normal conversations even if we don’t agree with the viewpoints.
But our stance on LGBQT is clearly laid out in the instance rules. We want to provide an inclusive platform. There are enough LGBTQ people who are christians.
EDIT: The community’s moderator/owner hasn’t been online in over a month. If anyone wants to take over this community and make it follow the Lemmy World rules then contact me.
If the moderators of /r/Belgium decide to move here we can ofcourse give them a mod spot too.
On the https://kbin.social/m/Belgium there is not much going on and this community is already linked there as a related magazine. I think the people on kbin will find their way.
Since the /r/belgium subreddit is now private - I reached out to them. Sent a message about what we wanted to do here and that they're welcome to join here and that a mod status is open too.
Since I see there is interest here in getting some kind of interaction going, I can join the /r/belgium discord later and try to talk to someone.
In the end it's up to them if they want to do their own thing that's fine too ofcourse.
Edit: I reached out to the /r/belgium admins on their discord channel and pointed them to this thread too.
You have moira_mayhem on Kbin and LW and this account. So yes, you have alts.
We don’t give a platform to fascists that’s why we defederated from those instances. But what you want is an echo chamber, I’m sure the instance you applied for will be better suited. But that account will be banned from this instance as well.
Don’t worry about that you and your alts are banned. I didn’t ban this account yet so you can answer if it is ok to post your conversation with thekingoflorda here.