Admin comments on lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/post/55846636/18367529
tl;dr for lemm.ee:
In short, somebody posted a pro-Elon-Musk-doing-a-nazi-salute Valentine’s Day meme and the mods left it up so people started complaining in other communities and the admins realized “you know, we never see reports from our instance’s most controversial community” because the mods were quick to act leaving everything up. So the original salute poster was banned and all the mods were dethroned as the admins are taking a wait-and-see approach on what to do with the community.
I haven’t found a comment about what happened at .world yet but there are zero mods for their community too.
Power tripping mods getting their comeuppance!
Normally I would remove this is off-topic and better fitting in fedilore, but since it technically involves a instance admin taking action, it’s close enough. But please follow the posting guidelines next time.
As the so-called conservative movement continues its transformation into fascism, this will escalate the conflict between inclusiveness and ideals of free speech.
Even as someone who is more pro-free speech than most Lemmy users, I’m glad endorsing sieg heils is still beyond the rubicon on Lemmy.
I got banned on lemm.ee conservative community for posting a crypto scam. I mean, yeah it was a scam but it was also the official trump and melania scam coins.
So… I was the one who removed that post. Just due to it technically promoting a crypto scam, even if a joke.
Community mod banned you though. So hey, if you wanted to be unbanned, consider it granted I guess.
Lol no worries. I gave it a 10% chance of staying up anyway
This is what makes Lemmy so great. Reddit won’t remove mods for…reasons. Same three fuckers running like 75% of the damn site.
The lemm.ee admins are the real
racistspowertrippers, though!-former /c/conservative mods probably.
To be fair, though. Wasn’t the Musk “my heart goes out to you” valentine actually a Daily Show joke thing? I can see it easily being appropriated by conservatives… but was that what was actually happening?
One card featured an image of Elon Musk with his arm raised and the words, “My heart goes out to you!”
I heard the mods on the lemm.ee one were dismissing reports to protect the posts and users who were rightfully reported. So they deserve it, and it was probably the best thing that could’ve been done, second to banning the community outright of course.
The one on Lemmy.world was probably a very similar story, and if I remember right that community was nothing but trolling and occasional bigotry. As are most conservative communities on the Fediverse.
The conservative community on Lemmy.World is straight up just trolling, and not entirely just for conservative conversations.
Some people make memes out of Alex Jones, but all that accomplishes is normalizing that kind of behavior and giving people like him free cover behind humor. Dan and Jordan at Knowledge Fight have talked about the harms of turning people like him into seemingly harmless clowns.
Satirizing and making fun of people is one thing, but at some point, you need to recognize when the net effect becomes simply spreading their propaganda for free.
(When I say “you,” I mean in the general sense.)
I sure did not see that coming 😉
