https://lemmy.world/post/24135976
So they're trying cut back on echo chambers and power tripping mods. I like this, but I wonder how this going to play out.
this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2025
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We’re going to allow some “flat earth” comments. We’re going to force some moderators to accept some “flat earth” comments
You.. like this? Glad I'm not a mod, this is how places like Reddit became what they are today. Opinions should be allowed, but admins should be able to moderate blatant falsehoods.
We've already run into problems with that where mods banned people talking about Israeli war crimes as "misinformation". Despite it being headline news.
So that's obviously not a great system.
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Reddit is a living emblem of the problem this is trying to solve so I have no idea what you mean.
Mods can’t be trusted to enforce the truth. It’s far too complicated and they invariably end up enforcing their own distorted view of the world instead.
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Policy sentiments aside, wow that post is so up it's own ass. There was definitely a more concise way to communicate the change.
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I'm not an expert in political philosophy by any measure, but I kind of feel like lemmy.world is a small case study in the pros and cons of realpolitik.
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Well, time to make my alt community account my primary one. See y'all on the other side!
I make them perna ban me first. Fuck them.
But yeah. Gtfo, and be carful, if the world is flat that means it has an edge.
.world continually making dumb changes
Seems like they locked the community in protest of recent .world TOS changes. Although I think a much better protest would be to simply refuse to enforce the changes they felt are unsatisfactory.
...or just migrate the community to another instance? Like why are we in the fediverse? Have people forgotten that if you don't like a instance, you can just move to another one?
Migration as a first choice is rash.
It's really not. The whole purpose of federation is that you can just go to whatever instance you like best.
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From the announcement in question:
Some communities will receive an immediate notice with a link to this new policy. The most egregious communities will comply, or their moderators will be removed from those communities.
Nothing like a good power trip from the admins. Even if mods are power tripping people can make a new community. This was a bad response by admins, they bowed to only the most vocal minority. Vast majority of people have been fine with the moderation on .world. only classy thing to do is to take it back and play it off like it was a trial run that didn't work out