If the mod team sees that you are posting about plans or actually planning a banner that says “Join Lemmy” or something similar, that is fine. If you are posting about an effort that is more along the lines of “Fuck Spez” or a giant penis with a Fediverse logo, we will remove the posts or comments. You can’t plan that here. Lemmy.world admins do not want us over there making the Fediverse look bad on Reddit, and today is no exception.
It’s fine to post funny pictures of what people on Reddit have already done, but we won’t be planning anything like that here.
I would agree that the guillotine picture was way too far but what’s so bad about the voicing of discontentment (aka: fuck spez)?
Genuinely asking, not a rhetorical question.
You know the meme: “I feel sorry for you”; “I don’t think about you at all.”?
First off, Fuck Spez. I fully support anyone who wants to pop in there and make sure that “Fuck Spez” isn’t getting removed, but if it looks like Lemmy is just a refugee camp for angry ex Redditors to complain about Spez (who should be fucked), that’s not inviting to others who aren’t as riled up as the rest of us. It needs to look like a separate, fully functioning community.
Keep the shadow ops in the shadows.
Potential former redditor here: You are correct in assuming Lemmy is a “Refugee Camp” of sorts- it’s become abundantly clear with the reprehensible actions of Reddit the company that users are no longer of importance to them. I don’t care about API access, I’ve never used a 3rd party client, but pricing the existing options out of existence with little warning is appalling. That’s just the tip of the iceberg, the actions taken against subreddit moderators is horrendous, and underlines their attitude toward the user base. Comply, or be cancelled. All of this to make reddit “profitable”. Get yo Ferengi lookin’ ass out of here, u/Spez! As for me, I believe I can help grow my personal interest here, mostly by cross posting at first. Perhaps once there is enough people here, I can let Reddit go and wither in cyberspace… sounds like a plan, right?
If we are advertising Lemmy or the Fediverse, we want to do it in a way that shows we are (on the whole) less toxic than the Reddit spaces we left behind. Some Reddit users may see the “fuck Spez” as a glowing endorsement of Lemmy but others who are looking for a place to discuss things in a more civilized way may not. Those who are likely to both seek out and remain on Lemmy.world once they find us are also likely to fall in the second group, so it’s best to be careful.
I don’t know, saying fuck spez doesn’t seem toxic, it just seems like we are affected by those decision. I don’t think most of us hate spez personally, but we do hate his decisions.