After being harassed in multiple discord channels by powermod FlyingSquid the news mod blackbeard has shuttered his account and moved to bluesky.
https://lemmy.world/u/Blackbeard
"The recklessness with which people downvote polite disagreements reminds me of all the worst parts of Reddit, and it proves to me that this isn’t the social media savior I’d hoped it would be, and is instead just another echo chamber. I hope eventually lemmy.world (and the fediverse more broadly) can grow out of that, but some of the behavior I’ve seen on the inside from both mods and admins doesn’t really inspire much confidence for that kind of evolution in the short term. "
FlyingSquid is the same mod who has the power to siteban people from lemmy.world
Why does lemmy.world keep having issues with their powermods and admins? Why do powermods get the ability to siteban their enemies from the largest instance?
Want to drive a power drunk redditor crazy? Block them, do not interact with them at all. It drives those types up a wall.
So that’s why my comment on Harris’ position on the genocide in Palestine has been removed for misinfo, even though a quick search proved my point.
Flying Squid takes things personally rather often, and can get heated especially on controversial topics. I don’t always agree with their behaviour as a user and as a mod, but tbh they are the more reasonable party in this particular exchange, though some of the responses are more annoying. The conversation could have easily ended like 1/4 of the way through by either of them. It’s unclear if it’s harassment to me, because I am reading it as both persistently acting childishly at times.
If they leave they leave, that’s fine. No matter who is right in this, Blackbeard has no obligation to deal with stuff he doesn’t want to.
Sounds like this was already resolved within the mod team. So if OP you’re posting for history or were unaware, fine (but you ought to look for, ask and add surrounding context and actions, next time). If you’re posting just to cause drama and a flamewar, shame on you.
Lastly, discord? Come on, we’re on Lemmy here, harass people on a federated FOSS protocol like matrix! /s
Hi, LW Community Team here.
We’ve made efforts to avoid the kind of supermods that existed on Reddit, and this is a great example. We’ve tried to have more mods with fewer communities each, and to limit the number of major communities under the same mods. This was a disagreement between two mods of major LW communities, FlyingSquid at worldnews and Blackbeard as a moderator of News and PoliticalDiscussion. Notably, this seems to be a disagreement from a couple months ago.
FlyingSquid moderates one major politically involved community (the other is closed). If Blackbeard wanted to ban him from News for report abuse, he certainly could have done that. Admins and the Community Team here try not to get overly involved in individual communities, and that wouldn’t seem extremely out of line.
Blackbeard seems to have been concerned about getting side-wide banned by Flying. I’ve seen no evidence of anyone using the bot outside of extremely obvious scammers, trolls, and ban evasion. And I don’t believe FlyingSquid would use that bot inappropriately. If that does become a problem, we’d absolutely take action. You always have the options to appeal directly to the admins (email in the LW sidebar). Currently, it’s nice to have the extra help in keeping scams and spam off the site.
I do wish Blackbeard had talked to us about his concerns. He seemed to be pretty reasonable from my interactions with him. He’d be welcome back if we could get through this misunderstanding.
I just wish FS would slow down on commenting. Lemmy world comment sections feel like a FS echo chamber because they feel the need to comment on every single post.
Even if I agree with many of their opinions, that’s just not what I want out of Lemmy, so I have them filtered.
