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?
Speaking to the bot thing, a few of us have access to it in order to remove egregious violations in communities where we may not be mods.
I’ve used it to remove CSAM accounts and posts for example. Middle of the night spam attacks, and so on.
Really it’s for content in which there is no question it should be removed… when the bot is working. :) Sorry @[email protected] ! ;) It doesn’t work a LOT!