• @[email protected]
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    -115 hours ago

    Fair enough. I do appreciate your posting of content at times. However, not all content is good content. Quality trumps quantity.

    Maybe it would be best to focus more time on non-meta topics, like sports communities, gaming communities, hobbyist communities, etc. I feel that the neverending discussions of what is going on with whatever Lemmy server or communities and what needs to be done about it become a self fulfilling prophecy. The more that people focus on it, the more they tend to disagree.

    Sometimes users and mods and admins are going to have disagreements and get angry at each other. It doesn’t need to be linked all over Lemmy every time that happens. We already have plenty of options for servers, it’s best to allow instances to handle their disagreements internally/privately and we don’t need everyone else in the fediverse getting in on every bit of drama. If the admins and mods are truly that bad at their jobs, the users will speak with their actions by leaving the server and/or community.

    MeanwhileOnGrad is indeed a community that has generated some drama, and our admins have had discussions about this. Our current consensus is that due to the draconian censorship on hexbear always and lemmy.ml sometimes, it’s important to have hard evidence of some of the crazy and violent things that those communities upvote and agree with. This provides an easy way for new users to see for themselves what they are getting into if they choose to interact with, or god forbid join, one of the tankie servers. Although some drama gets generated along with that, the alternative would be to leave the blatant lies and bad faith tactics unchecked, which would be a much bigger problem imo.

    • Blaze (he/him)
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      315 hours ago

      Maybe it would be best to focus more time on non-meta topics, like sports communities, gaming communities, hobbyist communities, etc.

      I am the main poster on

      And a few other communities. I even organize a weekly thread on [email protected] so that other “main posters” can discuss about their feeling of “shouting into the void” (https://sh.itjust.works/post/31030466)

      I feel that the neverending discussions of what is going on with whatever Lemmy server or communities and what needs to be done about it become a self fulfilling prophecy. The more that people focus on it, the more they tend to disagree.

      [email protected] shows the opposite. All interested users went to it, posted content, and reached 3k daily active users, which is more than [email protected] . They all agreed, and found at least one community that they can use from now on, whatever happens with [email protected]

      It doesn’t need to be linked all over Lemmy every time that happens.

      It’s usually limited to [email protected]. It wouldn’t have spread over all Lemmy hadn’t the mods decided to lock that community, basically forcing the Blahaj users to start a new community that would get visibility on /All.

      Although some drama gets generated along with that, the alternative would be to leave the blatant lies and bad faith tactics unchecked, which would be a much bigger problem imo.

      Your conclusion is the same that makes people post to [email protected].

      If the objective is to offer a better alternative than Reddit, we have to evidence that there are indeed countermeasures against power tripping mods and admins. [email protected] is that countermeasure. And if people don’t like drama, they can just block that community. Same for [email protected] , one of the recurrent themes are going to be drama, as it’s the easiest context to create memes about.