So I look in the modlog from time to time. There’s been some actions I’ve seen that I don’t agree with, but there is no way to see the context, so I’ve never spoke up. But today I saw something that concerned me. I’m just going to copy/paste the modlog so you see what I see.
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Technology@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Indiana@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod Banned
AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Chat@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Socialist Rifle >Association@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Antifascism@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Michigan@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Lord of the >memes@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Ohio@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community United States | >News & Politics@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community The >Onion@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Religious >Cringe@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Iowa@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Memes@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >Minnesota@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod
Banned >AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Food Crimes - >Offenses against >nutrition@midwest.social reason: Lib expires: in 1 year
I don’t know who this guy is, or who the mod is, but essentially this guy is getting banned for being liberal.
Or am I misreading the situation???
Each instance gets to be its own fiefdom to an extent. If you’re shitty enough to a wide enough audience or you tolerate shitty users you might be defederated, but for the most part as a mod you get to decide the rules for your server.
In this particular instance the mod decided to ban someone for whatever reason, maybe it was being a lib, maybe they were annoying a mod, it doesn’t really matter.
The cool thing is that you can avoid the instance if you want, or block it so you don’t have to see anything from it, or start your own instance with blackjack… And hookers. The options are unlimited.
So you’re saying there’s no holding mods accountable for their actions. We can only leave.
Seems like thats counter intuitive to growing Lemmy.
Just leave the instance, not the fed. It can be seen to help grow it. You’re free to start your own instance and allow/disallow anyone for any reason. Remember that there isn’t 1 Lemmy. It’s not like reddit where there’s one site. It’s more like a whole shitton of very similar sites that overlap. So one rogue mod is messing up a News, just ban that instance and find another one.
It’s counterintuitive to growing an instance maybe.
The whole idea is that there is no centralization.
It (the fediverse) is de-centralized.
The point is that there’s no one entity in charge.
You don’t have to leave the fediverse because you don’t like an instance. You’re free to start your own communities and/or instances anywhere else, no one is obligated to tolerate anyone and everyone in their space.
you’re only ignoring/blocking/locking yourself out of one tiny piece of the Fediverse, the rest of Lemmy is still available to you – whereas if you had run afoul of Reddit, the entirety of Reddit becomes inaccessible, not just one particular sub