So yeah… maybe the turtle slowly waking up that he was just a Laptog for reddit and thrown away as soon as they didnt need him anymore ( moderation is allways a volunteer thing and shouldnt be like a 2nd job ).
Lol.
An actual bad person when given mod status in too many subs: “This site is great”
Site admins ban him and deny appeals
The bad person: “This site is exploitative!!”
Reddit sucks, but this is probably the one good thing to come from Reddits recent actions.
Fully agree. Power mods like him are a huge problem on reddit and I hope this will not repeat in the fediverse.
I mean, the benefit to Lemmy is that it is easy to create a new instance to replace ones controlled by power hungry mods.
Sure, I just hope it plays out like that. I can easily imagine a situation where instances or communities get too big to fail. What’s the point in creating a splinter community where 10 or 100 users migrate to when all the content and discussion takes place in the original community.
On reddit I had started boringdystopia despite there already being the bigger aboringdystopia because I disliked the moderation. I surprisingly saw decent growth in the sub as well.
So just because there’s a bigger “original” out there, doesn’t mean you can’t do well and make a working community.
Tbh the smaller communities are the better ones imo
Ya thats what i wonder bc that kinda happened on reddit.
trying to encourage a code of morality, as seen in my post for mildly infuriating a few days ago mentioning some of the actions these moderators had done against the community and why they are bad for the health of it.
I hope being one of the large communities it offers a template for those to follow, I might not always get it right but I hope to do my best to eliminate it here. Bad mods ruined reddit.
Bad mods weren’t the only thing contributing to the downfall of Reddit. Infact, Id argue most moderators of Reddit were genuinely good and helped foster each subreddit community in a reasonable manner. As with all things that involve humans, there will always be bad actors, but I think overall I had maybe 2 instances I can remember in all my 14 years of Reddit where a bad moderator removed content because they didnt agree with it.
You dont even need to go to a new instance you can just join another comunity on a different server
Ya but how easy would it be to get people to actually move there. Even tho on Reddit theres a rule against duplicate subs there were ways around that (like “real___” or “___uncensored”) but the problem was that some ppl just didnt care about poor conduct and the replacement subs sometime ended up not taking off or being overrun by an extreme group (tho sometime it did work.) So I wonder about that here bc a lot of ppl use that to say this isnt a problem here
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That’s the one thing I like a great deal, is the decentralization. I’m sure at some point we’ll see heavy manipulation across the Fediverse but it will be of a different nature. If mods start running a fiefdom on a major instance, just leave the instance.
It will but they’ll be server admins instead.
Hopefully no instance ever becomes too popular by itself where this will heavily affect everyone though.
I’ve been disenfranchised by the mods for a long time, so while I don’t like seeing what use to be a good thing burn to the ground, it really is rooted at the poor administration overall at the site that allowed abusive moderators to run major subs. This outcome is more akin to the snake eating its own tail, but I agree. These toxic abusive moderators getting booted out of a major vein of public discourse is only going to be a positive.
It’s almost hilarious that this guy was given a taste of his own medicine.
Oh, is that’s who it is? If so, fuck them.
Weren’t they a massive dick about as well, it wasn’t just an accusation without evidence.
Seems like everyone here deserves eachother.
This case is actually even funnier because that mod turned out to be right! The art was AI generated! Aspects of other people’s watermarks and other AI giveaways were left in the final art so either the whole picture was ai generated and the sketches were done after or it’s all AI generated.
Edit: this might’ve been wrong. I’m unable to find my original source to back this up so take this story as hearsay. I’ll leave it up for history sake though.
Are you sure about that? I know that was the case with some recent AI-accused artists, but I haven’t seen this specific case mentioned.
The reason I ask is that:
A. There’s nothing I can find online. If you have a link, I’d love to be proven wrong.
B. After looking again art the image in question from January of this year, I don’t see any watermarks or AI tells (hands look perfect and natural, and I couldn’t spot any watermark residuals).
I think I might’ve been wrong here. I had heard and looking into it at the time but it’s possible I mixed multiple stories in my head that happened at the same/similar time. My original source was from a news YouTube channel that I watch/listen to but it wasn’t the headlining news of the video and it was months ago so I have no idea how to search it and see what sources they used.
Sorry if I accidentally spread any misinformation here.
Sorry if I accidentally spread any misinformation here.
No worries! You realized you might be wrong and corrected yourself. I forgive you, lol!
Apparently the artist provided a lot of evidence that it was his own work and had even provided the PSD files to journalists who reached out to him.
This seems unusually high-effort for ‘AI generated art.’
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This website is exploitative garbage with no respect given to all the app makers and third party developers that have kept its decrepit heart beating all this time, submitted by /u/awkwardtheturtle to /u/awkwardtheturtle
/u/spez is a liar and a hypocrite, the admins are two-faced goons, and they are all toxic embarrassments instead of people. They seemed ok when I met them in person (though tiny Spez did seem like he had a lot to compensate for), but promises and assurances from people like chtorrr and redtaboo have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are stooges, not innovators.
Let it all burn to the ground where this useless website belongs
I’m a human volunteer content transcriber and you could be too!
I can’t wait for the future where ai can very reliably transcribe anything for the blind folks out there so they can freely browse stuff like we all do.
Good human
Aaaaaand he’s gone
Well that’s not what I meant when I said to suspend akwardtheturtle but I guess it succeeded.
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🦀🦀🦀
Turtle is the most drama-seeking person I’ve seen on Reddit and I’ve been there a long time. They always seek out drama and then screenshot it and post it to r/CenturyClubDrama. They contribute like 80% of the total posts to that sub. They also post really long rants and then ban the person they’re ranting at so the person can’t comment back. Don’t be like turtle.
That fucking CenturyClub bullshit; I lasted about 2 days after getting invited to the subreddit a few years ago. What a morass of powermod drama queens and groupthink twats. For some god-unknown reason, I got an re-invite during the protest blackouts from one of their mods, no clue why. Because they were going to talk me out of shutting down a +1M sub?
Yeah, it’s pretty terrible now.
I was one of the first 100 users, almost a decade ago ago, and it was surprisingly chill. Everyone knew it was just shitposts and no one had anything to be proud of.
Now it’s people who genuinely think they’re hot shit. And it’s so full of ego it’s absurd. It’s literally a joke subreddit guys.
Please let them stay away from the Fediverse… Stay the fuck away from Lemmy and Kbin. Get out, touch grass and eat some ice cream but stay away from us.
Agree.
Also Mmmm, its not too early for ice cream is it?
It’s never to early for ice-cream (or to late for that matter).
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It never is
Is it ever?
I decided to agree, and ate the ice cream despite the time of day.
Mods : Reddit :: Admins : Lemmy
I also think we should be weary of people asking to be mods and if anyone you do make a mod acts like turdle you remove them as a mod and ban them
I am very much uncaring for turtles predicament. He or she was an ass to ever community at every possible chance. now it’s expected the community help them out? Hell no, hope the removal is permanent
Yeah this seems like some selfawarewolves shit. And even in this whiny tirade they just couldn’t leave some sort sexist/ableist/hateful insult off. As much as spez is a fucking tool, people like turtle are the bigger reason honestly the whole site had turned to diarrhea IMO - rampant assholes taking over the site.
Yeah I don’t get why they felt the need to bring up spez being short (is that what they were getting at?) Seems childish. Who cares if he’s not tall? What’s that have to do with this…
Turtle is either a massive troll and/or a massive misandrist who loved to use that sort of terminology at all times, that’s why, this quip is in the fucking kiddie pool of the slurs and insults they used for no reason other than their life is seemingly so miserable. They are a childish asshole, that’s all there is to it.
The two bad guys fighting each other,
just like in RussiaThey’re still fighting, just not in public view .
I really hope whatever website replaces Reddit has some sort of way to mitigate/control these “super” mods
I hope they don’t end up over here. “Power mods” are just the worst.
I got banned from a sub for a relatively tame normal opinion about something or other, like a video game or something. Sent a mod mail asking what happened and what could I do to make it right, got muted and then banned from 10 more subs immediately.
I just nuked my 15 year 750k karma account after giving him a piece of mind to each modmail box. I’ll absolutely burn the earth before letting some internet loser feel like he runs my life lol.
I got banned from r/entertainment for criticizing Lizzo’s outfit when the whole crystal flute nontroversy happened, nothing racial, nothing about her weight or about the flute-playing itself, just that I thought her outfit she was wearing looked trashy. BANNED. Reddit has been on the decline for awhile now. I just wish I could filter out ANY news of Reddit on other sites, it’s kind of annoying how much sites like Lemmy.world still lean on Reddit for content instead of trying to do their own thing.
Oh yeah I hate how many posts are just Reddit links.
Do people not know you still help by visiting?
(they don’t, people are dumb 😂)
Yea, I’ve been going cold turkey since 6/11. I thought the whole point was to NOT GO so that Reddit could see how unpopular its decision was. It kind of feels like people are just not bothering with even trying to protest. I’m sure those that stick around will have a series of annual “that’s it, I’m done” moments coming in the future as Reddit makes more and more unpopular decisions and people just put up with it because they couldn’t even go a few weeks without visiting the site. I’ve already made my peace with the fact that Reddit is gone and I’m ready to move on. At this point I’d be more conflicted if they actually backed down on their stupid API policy and let 3rd party apps back on.
I nuked my 15 year 750k karma main for less just to spite some butthurt super mod 😂
I keep my account for local use but I wiped out my post and comment history (and got banned from half my subs for using a script to do so which just makes it easier to not use 😂)
Yup, that sounds like AwkwardTheTurtle.
That’s how I lost my original 10+ year Reddit account.
Someone would just start their own lemmy instance if the mods are unreasonable.
How does that solve the issue? If you are banned from a community you won’t be able to post or comment to it
You create your own community. If the mods are jerks, you can convince people to switch.
You could create your own community on reddit as well
Reddit will issue sitewide bans for posting about certain topics. The mods of lemmy.world seem to be going down that same path, unfortunately.
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Tbh considering you kinda have to be in the know to be here id imagine turtle would be baned by most communitys here but at the same time you’d think someone who is trying run a good subreddit would also know that turtle is a jack ass
I haven’t looked at the names of who have re-started up all the most popular communities from reddit, but I would expect to see some familiar usernames…
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Decent guys with small dicks are twenty miles above this turd.
Aww, thanks! :)
Turdle is a hypocritical piece of shit
Yeah, this is a “nothing of value was lost,” moment by reddit, lol.
Admins do to them what they did to users and now they’re pissed.
Major “you can’t fire me, I quit!” vibes
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I once reported them for a blatant rule violation and got a response from Reddit admin in seconds rejecting the report. Guess awkward knew where spez buried the bodies or something? Must have been nice to have a bot auto-rejecting reports of their bad behavior.
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How could you wish such a horrible thing upon anyone?! :'D
I don’t particularly feel bad for you.
