I have decided that new moderator (including a new head moderator) are needed for the future of this community. I will step back into the position of moderator that I had previously held. If enough people demand I will consider stepping down completely. I apologize for any harm that I have caused to this community.
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I wouldn’t want to be head mod because I don’t think I could commit the time a community like this deserves, but I would consider throwing my hat in the ring for a lesser mod position.
I’ve also never moderated a Lemmy community, so there may be some challenges there.
I think it’s important that any new mods understand Link’s vision for the community and what it means to create a space free of liberal/capitalist/colonialist apologia and talking points. It’s not easy to build up a community like this, but Link did an excellent job IMO of creating a space for discussion of complex topics without ever allowing the direction of conversation to be dictated by either bad faith actors or people ignorant of basic anarchic principles.
Copying a comment I made deeper in this thread here for visibility
Not sure why my other comment was removed after being up for several days, but this is clear evidence of a group of people organized on another platform to change this community. Grail and others have admitted as much in this thread and elsewhere.
I was willing to give kittenzrulz the benefit of the doubt on this, but silencing formerly active members of this community for calling out an obvious op in progress is a step too far. This is no longer a safe space for anarchists since it’s been infiltrated at the highest level by those that do not agree with the community’s guidelines or original intent.
To kittenzrulez - I know you reached out to Grail on discord in the immediate aftermath of Their original post on blahaj meta. Have you been colluding with Them since then or even before? No good faith uncompromised moderator of an anarchist space would silence discussion (including evidence) of an active op in progress. Any half well informed anarchist should be able to spot that shit from a mile away and an uncompromised moderator would shut down the offending accounts without prejudice. You chose to do the opposite and it tells me everything I need to know about the state of this community.
Edit: just checked the modlog and all comments critical of the Grail coalition have been removed from this thread for reason: “conspiracy”. Is it suddenly against the rules in an anarchist community to point out people actually conspiring against that community? Seriously kittenzrulez? Have you no historical context for this type of thing?
Yeah, this community’s carked it. Its ruler is just waiting another day or so to make sure it doesn’t get back up before issuing the death certificate and moving on. I wouldn’t have thought this would be so easy but Lemmy wasn’t made by nor for anarchists so I guess there wasn’t much we could’ve done but watch it happen and get banned/posts deleted for talking about it.
Lemmy was made by and for Marxist-Leninists but they’re very openly non-sectarian, meaning any leftist who doesn’t instigate in-fighting is welcome.
It’s really just blahaj that’s this way, I don’t know what ada has been doing but this is gonna keep happening until she gets it together.
My point was that a system not (as) dependent on hierarchy might’ve stood up better. It’s not “those icky tankies are so bad even software they wrote magically works against us” but “this software is built in a way that makes our Communities (the subreddit-like construct specific to Lemmy) depend entirely on like three people… when we’re lucky.” When one of the three gets bullied out of the community he made and the other two don’t have the community’s interests at heart, the community’s screwed unless some specific person steps up to be the authority for a new one.
…On the other paw, perhaps our failure to just go make a new, collaborative Liberty Hub reflects poorly on us. I don’t mind blaming the instance a bit, though. Dunno what I’d consider a safer, more sensible one at this point.
Good_Girl here, back from the dead to step up for this community and this community only. Proof is on my account over on hexbear
Edit: after seeing that my comments below got deleted, this instance can burn for all i give a shit. If you’re gonna bend the knee for obvious bad actors you can eat shit.
My gods, I clicked on your link and the instant transphobia on Hexbear hit Me like a brick in the face
transphobia
This link?
“instant” when You had to literally go look for something to get mad at.
That screenshot is in reply to the very first comment of yours that I clicked on. Did you report those people for their transphobia?
Hi kittenz, I can probably step up as a moderator; buuuut. I haven’t moderated any lemmy forums before
I’ve heard that there isn’t moderation tools on phones?
Please step down. I wish you the best, but please for the good of the community and yourself step down and step back.
Hi, going to say that I would like You to not be a moderator please. The whole debacle ousting links (and completely stopping any sort of posting here) was kind of caused by You…
With the way a timeout or, timed ban (unsure of the terminology) caused the post You made in blahaj meta - I’m not confident that moderation will not be just like that.
You are not eligible to be the moderator of a major Blahaj community at this time. You approached the misgendering situation in a way that stirred up as much damage and harm to the community as possible. Whether or not that damage was intentional, it was and is real, and my belief is that, Your moderation style would continue to damage the community.
I would rather have left a comment or reported the comment, but I couldn’t because I was banned. I had to escalate My response. My response did not cause LOC to leave the mod team, they were already suffering from burnout and other issues with moderation. The change was already coming, and LOC decided to make it after they misgendered Me. I’ve been in this community since then trying to lower tensions by pointing out that the issue of division with Mindtraveller was solved, and I offered to mod in order to continue to undo the contributions My post made to the drama. I’ve been talking with kittenzrulz over Discord, and they say they have issues with communicating assertively. This has lead some users to feel that this community’s mod team is distant and uncommunicative, and this has lead to paranoia about their intentions. Having spoken with kittenzrulz, I can say that they wish only the best for this community and everyone involved in all this. They’re just nervous about saying the wrong thing and making the problem worse. They want to respect the community’s wishes as best they can. The only problem is that a lot of users want LOC back, and this is impossible because LOC doesn’t want to mod anymore. kittenzrulz doesn’t have LOC’s level of confidence which made a lot of the users here feel at ease.
Hi, I’m a member of The Outside. Vi- Grail’s moderation makes me feel safe. They are a great choice if queer acceptance and safety is a matter of concern.
i think the acceptance of grail as a mod would look on the whole inappropriate. how could the claims of a coup or an op be denied, if the person who instigated the bullying and departure of the previous head mod, became a mod in that mods place?
Because I forgot lemmy was a thing and went back to reddit like some naïve child. Excuuuuse me for trying to be politically active. Who or what the fuck is mindgoblin?
Not sure why my other comment was removed after being up for several days, but this is clear evidence of a group of people organized on another platform to change this community. Grail and others have admitted as much in this thread and elsewhere.
I was willing to give kittenzrulz the benefit of the doubt on this, but silencing formerly active members of this community for calling out an obvious op in progress is a step too far. This is no longer a safe space for anarchists since it’s been infiltrated at the highest level by those that do not agree with the community’s guidelines or original intent.
To kittenzrulez - I know you reached out to Grail on discord in the immediate aftermath of Their original post on blahaj meta. Have you been colluding with Them since then or even before? No good faith uncompromised moderator of an anarchist space would silence discussion (including evidence) of an active op in progress. Any half well informed anarchist should be able to spot that shit from a mile away and an uncompromised moderator would shut down the offending accounts without prejudice. You chose to do the opposite and it tells me everything I need to know about the state of this community.
Edit: just checked the modlog and all comments critical of the Grail coalition have been removed from this thread for reason: “conspiracy”. Is it suddenly against the rules in an anarchist community to point out people actually conspiring against that community? Seriously kittenzrulez? Have you no historical context for this type of thing?