This post was getting attention.

Then this exchange by the mod

I tried to post and well well well, post was locked. https://lemmy.world/modlog

  • @woelkchen
    1•22 hours ago

    And naturally those link to a user’s home instance.

    But it’s not his personal home instance. It’s his corporate home instance. He wrote that he used his corporate account because it has wider reach but it really is just a free time hobby thingie, pinkie swear. Sure, he could have published the post from his actual private account and then just boosted it from his corporate one but then that fine promotional domain name of his employer wouldn’t be visible to everyone.

    My personal conviction still is that I made the right call but as I also have said: If one of the other mods disagrees, they can just restore that post and there will be not a single letter of complaint by me. There are 5 mods overall.

    And linking to heise isn’t unheard of… In fact we link to their articles every other day in the German speaking part of the Lemmyverse…

    And when there’s an actual Fedi-related article to link to and not just a low effort assortments of hashtags with a cartoon rocket, I’m happy to leave it up.

    This post from a day before is much better: https://lemmy.world/post/24151008 Still those hashtags but at least actual content by posting a tutorial.

    • Blaze (he/him)English
      3•13 hours ago

      There are 5 mods overall.

      Ruud is the main admin and has bigger fish to try. Xylinna hasn’t been active in a year. MrCenny hasn’t been active in 8 months.

    • hendrikEnglish
      3•22 hours ago

      Idk. I’ve also used company email or storage to do one-off private stuff. If allowed. It gets yet more complicated once you’re a freelancer. Or do social media stuff or programming and it’s both your hobby and your job. I can somehow relate to that. We don’t know that person’s exact situation and reasoning. All we can do here is speculate and either give them the benefit of the doubt, or not.

      And ultimately I think companies have a right to exist, too. I like that they write articles for me to read. I invite journalists over to have a look at the nice projects I’m doing. I don’t see a big issue with that. Of course they’re very different from me. All their professional life revolves around reach, publicity and attention. That’s probably some big category in their thinking and less so in mine.

      Yeah, the post wasn’t particularly great quality. More an experiment. I mean the atmosphere in the comments was good. I’ve seen worse.

      Idk. Let’s stop talking about this. It’s getting late here and I think we could go on forever about some details. Things happen and I think not everything is worth writing a novel about. And ultimately none of that is my call. I wish you the best.

      • hendrikEnglish
        2•12 hours ago

        For transparency reasons: I’ve DMed @[email protected] (As suggested in the earlier conversation… To have another mod look at it.)

        I think the other mods in [email protected] are more nominal members. I can’t see any activity from them. It’s mainly @[email protected] doing all the work there. Ruud is the instance admin and probably the last person we want to bother with small drama, and the other two don’t have any activity federated to me for months.

        (And maybe you want to contact the inactive mods in your community and see if you want to replace them.)

        • Blaze (he/him)English
          3•12 hours ago

          I pinged that mod in another comment too. Agreed with the rest of your comment.