After being harassed in multiple discord channels by powermod FlyingSquid the news mod blackbeard has shuttered his account and moved to bluesky.
https://lemmy.world/u/Blackbeard
"The recklessness with which people downvote polite disagreements reminds me of all the worst parts of Reddit, and it proves to me that this isn’t the social media savior I’d hoped it would be, and is instead just another echo chamber. I hope eventually lemmy.world (and the fediverse more broadly) can grow out of that, but some of the behavior I’ve seen on the inside from both mods and admins doesn’t really inspire much confidence for that kind of evolution in the short term. "
FlyingSquid is the same mod who has the power to siteban people from lemmy.world
Why does lemmy.world keep having issues with their powermods and admins? Why do powermods get the ability to siteban their enemies from the largest instance?
Speaking to the bot thing, a few of us have access to it in order to remove egregious violations in communities where we may not be mods.
I’ve used it to remove CSAM accounts and posts for example. Middle of the night spam attacks, and so on.
Really it’s for content in which there is no question it should be removed… when the bot is working. :) Sorry @Thekingoflorda@lemmy.world ! ;) It doesn’t work a LOT!
Everyone Sucks Here.
Oh, this isn’t r/AITAH? Sheesh, thought I somehow stumbled back onto reddit.
I’m pretty sure Squid can’t siteban from lemmy.world. He’s not an admin.
discord 💀
Aw, is that what you call it? I always thought that phallic names were related to the sound they made in a mouth, and I didn’t know mushrooms made a noise at all. Good for you, short king. Slay.
Whaaat FlyingSquid made a huge deal out of a simple disagreement and made it all about themselves unprompted and made it personal? I’m shocked–that he didn’t mention his offspring and him moving to England. 🙄
If you continue to report opinions and simple disagreements as misinformation, we will take action against your account for report abuse, same as we would any account.
It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to interpret that as a threat to ban the account.
I mean, putting rules in a sidebar is implicitly a threat to ban any account in a community. This is what you Reddit fans want. There are myriad ActivityPub options. You chose the one that looks and operates like Reddit and can barely communicate with the rest of the federation. Mastodon hardly sees anything on here and vice versa, even once federated. It takes janky behavior like pinging @privacy@lemmy.ml to get anything submitted to it. You guys LOVE reddit more than anyone else on earth.
So you’re gonna tell me you don’t like operating under the threat of banning? You love it! You love reddit mods!
Daw. You think that you shouldn’t have any rules? How fast would that go downhill, hmmm? The rules aren’t to power trip. It’s to keep it civil, and on topic.
But you knew that. You just love being an ass.
Oh, and zero of your community bans are from .world
Whoever is forcing you to feel the need to stay here should stop. You deserve to have agency.
I hope this helps you.
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Blackbeard seems to be okay with Harris=Hitler and doesn’t want an “echochamber” but is going to bluesky?
lol
lmao
Yeah Bluesky is easily as liberal as World. You are all idiots who can’t get over your reddit addictions.
I mean you literally get mad over internet points while I am over here saying whatever the fuck I want. Someone else implied that getting downvoted on multiple comments is like having a rap sheet. You people are not serious LMAO.
Let me tell you the secret that will change your life: downvotes are just angry emoji reactions, and reddit nerds are the worst people in the entire world.
So…… why do you seem to make such a fuss over it?
You moderate Lemmy.world 🤣
No, I don’t. 🤣
Okay whatever part of this reddit clone you operate then, the sub where you talked about being a mod was on there.
You literally made it your job to care about internet points and bans and shit for free. I happen to enjoy talking about federation software including ActivityPub as well as FOSS and its political side.
Internet moderators are universally understood to be the lowest humans on the chain of being, beneath even investment bankers.
It is a natural criticism of this software to point out the way people import antifeatures like voting from corporate social media, the cargo cult effect essentially, as well as the failure of FOSS projects to enable people to avoid advertisements or reactionary political propaganda. Lemmy still gives a bullhorn to the views of the ruling class because it is primarily frequented by middle class tech workers, who are the most heavily saturated by US/EU/SK/Aus/Japan propaganda, the papers associated with the leaders of the world financial system. This is a valid criticism of open source projects. Open platforms with zero protection like this practically criticize themselves. Mocking people who take these sites seriously is enjoyable for its own sake, to answer your question.
Awww… you downvoted me! I thought they don’t matter?
Sorry for hurting your feelings. Votes and reactions are relevant when it is easily distinguishable what they really mean. When it is as easy as a few button presses for someome on Reddit or Lemmy to impersonate different people, and votes are anonymous, they lose all value for convincing people. Same goes for the obviously fake vote counts on Reddit’s front page. You’d have to be a fool to think those numbers are real.
When manipulation is likely, getting downvoted a bunch means you’re doing something right. You can assume anyone who upvotes you when you are being critical of something has no reason to do so.
Let’s say it is less likely for people to be manipulating stuff, if you know you’re pissing off people who have values opposed to yours, or for instance a Discord full of loser manchild liberals, it should be taken like I said as an angry emoji react.
If you really want to upset me, you would have to refute something I am saying. Childish insults and pedantic nonsense and downvotes won’t work. And I know you desperately want to upset me. You got so worked up about what I said and you didn’t even know what I meant.
Full disclosure, I tend to agree with FlyingSquid in the instance that kicked all of this off. I don’t have a clear opinion of them as a mod, but personally I wish the LW mods would do a lot more about the “Kamala Harris = Hitler” type of misinformation that gets a free pass on a lot of LW.
FlyingSquid comes across as perfectly reasonable in this conversation. Their arguments that another mod thanked them for reporting stuff, that it’s two reports over the course of two weeks which is hardly excessive, and then when the two people couldn’t see eye to eye, they said they just wouldn’t flag anything, sounds all perfectly reasonable and sensible. For some reason that wasn’t okay, and the conversation got personal, with Blackbeard constantly posting these aggrieved attacks about how FlyingSquid was being childish if he didn’t continue to report things in someone else’s community occasionally, but never anything that the mods there thought was not worthy of removal. And then petulantly refusing to say something along the lines of, “Of course you’re welcome to post there if you want” when asked repeatedly if it was okay for them to just post and participate still.
I haven’t seen any Discord harassment, so maybe I missed something, but if this is what gets posted as justification for why FlyingSquid is a terrible moderator, I suspect that the “harassment” is more of the same. Maybe it’s along the lines of “not saying exactly what I want you to say, or having conversation with other people where you say things I don’t want you to say.” People are allowed to disagree with each other over what is misinformation, or choose not to report content in someone else’s community if they get some hostile responses when they do. Trying to order someone else around and then getting personally insulting with them when they politely tell you “No, I don’t agree with how you see it,” is ridiculous.
I’m not sure I’d agree that FS comes off as perfectly reasonable because I do get a pretty strong beg me to stay or I’ll leave vibe… but I am amused that OP here read that thread and decided that FS was the aggressor here.
Another one post all comments account, but the first one I have seen with a face pic. Guess it’s all hands on deck for the liberals today.
Sorry about your tiny wiener, man.
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I fully ack with this statement.
There is a failure to settle what Misinformation is, FlyingSquid can’t be “more discerning about flagging/reporting” that Blackbeard wished him to do. YET Blackbeard failed to answer FlyingSquad exactly what he meant by this. And in that little inciting report “equating the US runners to X,Y,Z.” is not just an opinion, its defamation, a felony.
Blackbeard had the option to clearly say, “We want to allow people to say any bad thing about the Democrats that they want, even if it seems clearly disingenuous or like a pattern on the part of that particular user. We don’t consider that to be misinformation.” That would have clarified things and my guess is that FlyingSquid wouldn’t have argued with it. Blackbeard’s desire to tiptoe around saying that directly, for obvious reasons, and just say “be more discerning,” was what led to FlyingSquid’s confusion which Blackbeard for some reason interpreted as being hostile and obstinate about it.
It’s like a flashback to every boss who gives unclear direction about expectations, even when giving you a bollocking about how you did it wrong this time and even when asked point-blank. Except, FlyingSquid isn’t getting paid to put up with it, hence the “I think I just won’t participate then” which is probably a lot more polite than I would have been about it.
Blackbeard’s desire to tiptoe around saying that directly
Well I imagine that a Moderator should have a solid stance regarding, well, moderation. Blackbeard simply didn’t cut it. They could have just stepped down, but no, they had to nuke the account, post that screenshot to show their people skills and finally head to bluesky.
It is not misinformation to say that Kamala Harris is the commander in chief of the largest military force in the world and she is overseeing a genocide. The UN has even acknowledged it. Get over yourself, or hop into the dustbin of history with the rest of the people so gormless that future generations struggle to understand their motives.
Tell me you don’t know what the Vice President does without telling me you don’t know what the Vice President does.
This is exactly the sort of misinformation I remove from Politics on a daily basis.
There is a PUBLIC PROCESS for Harris to become President:
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/19/politics/kamala-harris-presidential-power/index.html
"To officially transfer the presidential powers to Harris, Biden sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the president pro tempore of the Senate, at 10:10 a.m. ET before going under anesthesia.
The letter reads: “Today I will undergo a routine medical procedure requiring sedation. In view of present circumstances, I have determined to transfer temporarily the powers and duties of the office of President of the United States to the Vice President during the brief period of the procedure and recovery.”"
It is not misinformation to say that Kamala Harris is the commander in chief of the largest military force in the world and she is overseeing a genocide.
That is textbook misinformation.
- Kamala Harris is not the commander in chief, Biden is.
- Kamala Harris is not “overseeing” anything in Gaza. Netanyahu is overseeing the genocide, Biden is arming it for some reason, and Kamala Harris is a whole different person running a political campaign to be able to make decisions about what we’re going to do now that our ally has apparently decided to kill millions of people who didn’t do anything wrong.
The linkage of Kamala Harris with the genocide in Gaza, persistently and disingenuously, with an apparently-successful outcome of greatly increasing the genocide by putting Trump in charge instead, is one major type of misinformation on Lemmy. If you were coming and saying “It is not misinformation to say that Kamala Harris hasn’t even condemned the genocide and is losing Arab voters because of her attempt to waffle on this crystal-clear issue,” then that wouldn’t be misinformation, whether I agreed with it personally or not. But going off into factual la-la land in order to accomplish your political goals for any particular discussion is absolutely misinformation. Thank you for providing a good example.
Biden literally vanishes for weeks at a time. Biden is a walking corpse who doesn’t make any decisions, they have to stuff him full of Adderall to get him to do anything. He can barely complete a sentence, that’s why they ran Kamala. They are part of the exact same administration. She’s the figurehead now.
The rest of what you said is pure speculation about what you deluded yourself into thinking Harris would change once elected. The US is not just arming Israel. US intelligence is calling the shots. US weapons can’t even be used without US intelligence. US soldiers are in Israel, overseeing the genocide in non-combat roles. Maintaining advanced air defense systems.
Israel is practically the size of New York City, and is dependent on the USA for everything. Reagan had absolutely no problem bringing them to heel in an instant. Kamala could do the same by actually cutting off aid.
I’m largely on your side here but
Biden literally vanishes for weeks at a time. Biden is a walking corpse who doesn’t make any decisions, they have to stuff him full of Adderall to get him to do anything
Source? This sounds like Republican propaganda
And just to be clear- I feel that a vote for either Harris or Trump was a vote for genocide
@TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Blocked your instance for being annoying beyond words and I side with Hexbear in the trans people calling each other transphobic beef (lol), so can’t reply directly, but the republican propaganda part of it was saying he was actually dead because he was gone for so long LMAO, him frequently going missing had to become a meme first. I am not your aide and it is not my job to catch you up on the last 4 years.
“Weeks at a time” is probably a stretch but showing up in public is not strenuous enough for most officials that they have gaps at all. Hell when this happens in China or the DPRK liberals become convinced people were executed.
ESH
Why are Lemmy mods from .world coordinating on discord lmao
It’s an easy way to work together. Yeah, Matrix would have made more sense.
They have other chat solutions as well, but not my place, so not my topic.
When you join, you can verify, and you’re added to channels for your community/ies. If you’re the first, they create the community channel automatically. Overall, a good idea.
I left the server, but for my own reasons unrelated to the mods/admins. Just needed to get rid of some discord servers.
you gotta coordinate somewhere, no?
but yeah, matrix would have been nicer.
They claim all their enemies are foreign agents. They can justify doing absolutely anything because they are just plucky server hosts up against the big bad Russians. After all surely if the Russians are botting a teensy bit of counterbotting is fine, right?
Flying Squid has a site wide reputation for being like this. Arguing/discussing anything with this person is like talking to a wall. Not to mention their overuse and abuse of authority.
If you want some insight, check this user’s comments and sort by controversial. Then do the same for FlyingSquid.
Have some citations for that abuse of authority? OP alluded to abuse of authority by pointing out various powers FlyingSquid has, but in my mind very tellingly didn’t actually provide any examples of abuse of authority. The screenshotted conversation, where a person with some site admin powers is reporting things as a regular user, and then when a mod gets really hostile and insulting with them, simply says “Oh, okay, I think I just won’t participate in your stuff then, if my presence is unwanted,” doesn’t exactly paint the picture of some kind of power-mad petulant tyrant.
100% dead on!
It’s clear FS has been doing this for some time and Blackbeard was getting sick and tired of it. Telling someone who regularly reports users to mind what they consider report worthy is something I imagine a lot of mods have to do. Saying “Well then, I guess I won’t report anything if that’s the way it’s going to be” is pretty childish IMO. Especially considering FS is a mod themselves.
FS is just very combative in nature. I’ve seen it several times. They’re not an easy person to have a discussion with.
So, no citations for abuse of power? Just that they had a disagreement with someone in Discord?
I mean sure, here’s an example. https://lemm.ee/post/44255924/15323391
I thought this one was ironic given the topic of conversation from this post.
Oh no! What happened after saroh was banned?
It would be silly if your case for “abuse of power” was that two months ago, FlyingSquid sent one rude message to one user because he made a mistake, so I know it’s not that.
People on Lemmy really seem to hate his guts, that much is apparent. Not just in this thread but everywhere else as well.
The general message I’m getting in the comments here are pretty favorable to FS. He’s a good guy. And his private discussion should not have been made public.
I don’t think they actually do. I think it’s a very vocal contingent, which has at least a little bit of overlap with the “Kamala Harris is literally Hitler” contingent. Also, I don’t participate enough in lemmy.world to be aware of what their normal moderation style is, but just based on this one instance it sounds like FlyingSquid unlike most LW mods is interested in taking some kind of action against the “Kamala Harris is literally Hitler” contingent.
Make of that what you will.
This entire post is because of FlyingSquid throwing a tantrum because Blackbeard told them to mind how they report comments. That’s all the was asked. This is after months of this behavior. Then FlyingSquid goes on this whole rant about how they feel unsafe and took a less than hour silence as being ignored and began acting even more childishly.
Meanwhile I gave one example of FlyingSquid literally running into the same thing for a community they mod and threatening to ban the person with absolutely zero discussion. They could have just started with a warning like Blackbeard did but instead went straight for threatening to ban the user.
Are you not seeing the double standard?
It is obvious that you and I see the screenshotted conversation very differently from one another.
I don’t think FlyingSquid should have sent one rude message to that one user that one time, no. I don’t see that as any kind of abuse of power.
I think I’ve said about as much as I want to say about this situation at this point.
Yeah i cant believe the people defending them in this thread. I guess anyone can build up a little following of devoted supporters regardless of how childish and argumentative they behave. Really makes you think. Flying Squid does not come out of this looking good in any way.
Why not? flyingsquid simply wanted clarification on how to discern what something is misinformation and what ain’t.
Blackbeard seems to not cut it as a mod.
Blackbeard was actually an excellent mod. I’m not picking sides on this fight, as it was resolved 2 months ago.
Oh lol I failed to miss the dates. OP really tried to dig up dirt for whatever reasons.
Lmao he was literally sea-lioning. Misinformation is also not something that needs to be clarified beyond blackbeards first statement which is “someones opinion that you disagree with, that is clearly just an opinion, is not misinformation”. I think the person trying to silence dissenting opinions and then acting like a child when they get called out for it is the one who doesn’t cut it as a mod, actually.
yet the other mod (next to blackbeard) said it was fine what FlyingSqud was doing. So how to effing trust in this matter?
Asking another mod to mind how they report things should not have been met with this kind of hostility. It was a very simple ask.
But in what capacity should someone mind how to report things? Blackbeard failed to clarify, this escalation was on them.
Misinformation applies to statements of fact not opinion. This was the first thing said. Asking for further ‘clarification’ was done in bad faith and was just an attempt to obfuscate the issue and seem ‘reasonable’. Its a tactic most intelligent adults can recognize and wont put up with, like when a child tries to pretend they dont know how to do their chores and just need you to show them ‘one more time’. And then goes ‘fine since i obviously cant do it right i just wont do it at all’
The first message had Blackbeard clarify the difference between opinion and misinformation. It’s pretty straightforward.
I agree with FlyingSquid here. That opinion that borders defamation, equating political runner with several people and even Hitler, is absolute report worthy.
Defamation is not against the rules and sounds like quite a bit of a stretch. No one on Lemmy is capable of defaming anyone even remotely that famous. It’s clearly an example of frivolous reporting.
Nah they just employ industrial use of alt accounts and automated voting. They never deploy it to the same degree on other instances because admins could check who is voting. They are only able to brigade here.
If this wasn’t the case you would see positive interactions from these instances elsewhere from people browsing All. You know, World accounts doing something other than reposting memes about Star Trek and freaking out because someone criticized the democratic party and brigading. It won’t happen because they are a bunch of fakers who correctly identified this software lets them be just as abusive as the reddit admins.
Patently false and wholly unsupported, too? Tell me you’ve had irrational run-ins with said mod that somehow refused to react how you wanted, you know without saying it word for word, right?
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Ooh, yeah, that’s it. C’mon, baby, Baader mein hof like only you can. Unf. So good.
Ah yes the nipple rubbing, the closest you can get to an admission of foul play while still playing the jester.
Didn’t kink shame, ya Temu Marxist. 😚
It’s a South Park reference. I mean you’re really just admitting to me what I already know about how you use this site. You have meme reposts, Star Trek, the democratic campaign headquarters, anticommunism like it’s 1950, vote manipulation, stalking, harassment, and admitting you do all of these things.
It’s not really kink shaming to point out the emperor has no clothes dawg.
You still here? Aw, shucks.
Jeeze both people come across as petty idiots. Lots of passive aggressive nonsense, and both sides want to have the last word.
Also it drives me up the wall when 2 people argue and one person tells the other to “calm down”. And in this case it’s “CALM DONW” and “CALM YOURSELF” between line by line quotes. So fucking childish.
I wish Blackbeard all the best on Bluesky; I think they will be disappointed. Human nature is human nature; I’ve been around long enough to see the cylical nature of social media. A new thing comes along, everyone joins, there is a love-in, and a “consensus” is built around how this time it’s be great and what is and isn’t allowed. Then things grow and a consensus that holds with 10 people breaks down with 100 or 1000, and people blame the new people for the change.
And mods at each others throats is just the nature of the beast. This has played out over and over on the internet - Usenet through to X, Reddit, etc, and the fediverse will experience the same. It’s just human nature.
No way?! This is how most online moderators act, gives them a sense of superiority and power. Both are acting fucking childish. Also lemmyworld is complete cancer.
That’s ridiculous. Numerous alt accounts have told me that internet moderators are completely reasonable. If people break their silence after months of saying nothing, it’s because they’re very serious.
So who am I supposed to listen to?
Both of us.
Well that’s your problem right there. If a user (because in this case FlyingSquid was operating as a user) is misinterpreting the rules according to one moderator, but being encouraged to flag content by another moderator (tacit endorsement), the mod team needs to talk amongst themselves and get on the same page regarding the reports. Offering to leave was a bit dramatic, but the mod’s response of “just read the rules” was a lazy move that did nothing to get at the core problem of inconsistent encouragement/discouragement of reporting and clarification among the mod team.
As stated in the screenshot, this happened in August. The team DID actually talk about this, and I put it to rest by hashing it out amongst both parties.
The person posting this is doing so WELL after the fact, out of context, and after resolution.
Neither side shared the screenshots with me, but the ones being shared proved they were shared by Blackbeard to someone. That’s their prerogative, but I would have asked the other involved party prior to doing that.
It sucks that we lost a good mod, and that this event happened (again, resolved 2 months ago).
If the parties involved want, I can explain the entire situation. I’ll DM both before I do that, though, as this wasn’t my fight.
joins the reddit-lite instance
mad that it’s like reddit
leaves entirely instead of trying a better instance
