This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
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Banned from lemmy world completely for reporting tos breaking comments like this https://lemmy.world/comment/23350098 in a single thread https://lemmy.world/post/45909721.
Almost undoubtedly in retaliation from Serinous for calling out all their other removals and bans
Okay, so with this ban, Serinus has effectively placed himself as an Admin of lemmy.world itself.He is stating positions for Lemmy.world itself, not just himself or his communities. Kaplan and other admins like @Ruud@lemmy.world are not stepping in and not criticising his behavior. With this behavior ongoing, it must be approved from the top level down or that the admins are totally out to lunch and not capable/willing of stepping in.
Moreover, a bot exists and has been talked about in the past. I was given access to it when I was on Lemmy.world. The bot was created by KingOfFlorda to allow for users like myself and Jordan to be able to deal with CSAM and other extremely bad actors when the admins were not available. There is no reason to believe that Serinus does not have access to the bot. The bot in question allows a non-admin user to apply an instance level ban to someone.
It was with this bot that you were banned from the instance.
You were not banned from an Admin account, you were banned from the bot account.
@MrKaplan@lemmy.world and @Ruud@lemmy.world have now, in effect, made @Serinus@lemmy.world an admin by allowing him to repeatedly post positions on behalf of Lemmy.world with stuff such as this:
In conclusion, Lemmy.world can now no longer be trusted for any admin decision. They are not being transparent with their decisions or even who their admins and those who have admin abilities are. They are willing to give total control of the website to someone who has repeatedly lied, repeatedly silenced others for misinformation that have categorical proof and someone who has openly posted a mod level comment condoning the bullying of instances provided they are under a certain number of users. Lemmy.world admins are willing to give admin level control and abilities to a user but are unwilling to force him to take the accountability of an admin.
Kaplan stated about Anarchist.nexus that there is "there is no sufficient moderation of violence on communities there". Yet, Lemmy.world has no sufficient moderation of its admins or mods at all.
FYI, if you want a defed vote, just start it. Any member with access to vote can open a governance thread. https://github.com/db0/threativore/blob/main/README_manual.md#governance
If you don't feel confident about opening the thread ofc, you can always request one of the admins does it.
Talking with some people about it. Kaplan has gone beyond the pale with the petty defederation but Serinus' behavior (and the lack of active admins otherwise) have demonstrated that lemmy.world has insufficient moderation for admin abuse on their instance. Ruud won't lift a finger or even have any input at all. Their admin team is either corrupt or non-existent and letting them run around setting the stage for everything due to their size is untenable and unsustainable. I have no reason to believe that anyone on the admin team will do anything without pressure being applied as they've demonstrated in the past they're not willing to do anything without pressure being applied.
A reactionary administration team, especially one so emotionally charged and driven, isn't trustworthy. I'm not even sure if it can be fixed. Serinus would need to be removed from any/all position where he speaks for admins, that (frankly massive security risk, not to mention totally bypassing of the modlog) of a discord bot would have to be killed and Kaplan would need to be relegated to devops only. I have no reason to believe that @Ruud@lemmy.world will do this. Genuinely believe that, at this stage, the only reasonable option is defederation. They've proven they're not willing to listen and are willing to engage in consistent admin-level abuse.
The dog keeps getting out of its yard and biting people. No owner is around with a leash. Time to lock our gates.
I'm also in favor of starting a vote. I messaged an admin about it but they said it would probably be best to wait for the drama to die down. I agreed then but I don't think I agree now since this is just getting worse and worse.
Eh, there's not really much urgency here. It's not like these actions are driving our users away.
Apparently they leaked someone's email I feel like that and this are good reasons to distance ourselves from them even if it's not immediately urgent.
One of the users whose comment you reported I have tagged with "Idiot, do not engage", and they have a net -18 with me.
I don't think I'm surprised LW admins would allow their comments.
Clear PTB.
LW and MrKaplan being zionist scum. shocking, isn't it?
Just adding to the long list of issues with lemmy.world
LW shadow bans users. Why would their communities be any different?
True on the Serinus part. And don’t care about that ban, goferking0 can be a big report abuser.