First off… I just wanted to again say thank you to everyone who responded to the help post that I recently made. The outpouring of support was genuinely kind of insane and I never expected it. I’m going to make a different post elsewhere on that but like… I cannot thank you enough.

But for the post itself, this is in reference to this post that I made on September 17th about Jordan Lund’s behavior as a lead moderator on Lemmy.World. His behavior beyond the realm of questionable and into active hostility and misinformation. A user commented on that post and @'d Ruud, the head admin of Lemmy.World.

Which, you know, totally fair and valid. Who would want that person reflecting the instance? Especially when a term was used about the Canadian government that Jordan wasn’t aware of and instead of asking for clarification, or doing a simple google, he just banned Canadians and doubled down repeatedly. But in that same thread, another Admin clarified they had talked to Jordan about this specific thing and told him it was unacceptable.

Yet 3 and a half hours later, Jordan reaffirms his stance and insists that his half-baked understanding of Canadian politics is correct. For the comment and then an immediate explanation of how he is both an idiot and a liar, check here.

This all happened nearly 10 days ago. The head Admin saying that he publicly doesn’t want Jordan to be the face of the instance, another Admin saying his behavior is unacceptable. What has happened? From a public perspective? Effectively nothing. The only thing that has changed is Jordan is down two communities under his moderation belt. One of those was a dead community that was never used and the other was the Community Spotlight team.

Now there’s a thousand reasons to dislike Jordans behavior but as a Canadian? His stubborn refusal of acceptance that he doesn’t know a thing and stubborn refusal to even acknowledge when someone has proven him wrong has pushed me over the edge. As far as I’m concerned, the United States declared war on Canada when it threatened to use economic force to coerce us into becoming a part of that country. So the idea of an American in control of World News who seems to subscribe to this type of American Exceptionalism? Or at least is too narcissistic to admit fault? I can’t stomach it.

But for the Admins to publicly say that they’ve told him his behavior is unacceptable but then refuse to enforce that? Even when Jordan is flaunting it in the exact same thread and ignoring everything the admins said? Either no one ever talked to Jordan to say that it was unacceptable or someone did talk to Jordan but he just doesn’t care. Evidently neither do the admins to enforce their own position on the matter. It has been nearly 10 days and if anything is being done then the movement is a breakneck glacial pace.

I can’t in good conscience ever give another second of traffic to Lemmy.World. I moved over from Startrek.Website because of a particular person way back when. One admin on the team who was a friend of mine and had encouraged me to join there when I was looking for another instance. He doesn’t even have any involvement in LW anymore and neither do pretty much anyone that I originally knew from the team. It isn’t the same site that I started on. Maybe I never paid enough attention when signing up to make a better and more informed decision, who knows.

What I do know is I’ve moved to Dbzer0. Db0 has been offering a spot on the instance for over a year at this point and after careful consideration of a variety of instances… Dbzer0 is also the one that I would probably fit best with. So if there’s anyone out there who hates me and had @[email protected] blocked, here’s your cue to block this account now too. Because with a new account comes a very small number of posts. That @[email protected] is #44 on the amount of posts made by any Lemmy account.

I’ve got some catching up to do.

To all my friends on the LW team, I love you and support you. To the admins who had a say in this? I’m just deeply disappointed. I’ve seen the speed moved on certain things. A week and a half when y’all admitted you were talking about him before I even made that post? Come on.

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    To all my friends on the LW team, I love you and support you. To the admins who had a say in this? I’m just deeply disappointed. I’ve seen the speed moved on certain things. A week and a half when y’all admitted you were talking about him before I even made that post? Come on.

    I wonder if we can make a site/community that is just counting the total days since the admins of .world have said something and then done nothing about it.

    JordanLund is the current example, but a while back they also wanted to platform flat world beliefs and the ilk, saying that if they remove them it’s bad, but debate solves them. As if platforming them doesn’t spread their dumb irrational ideas.

    Kind of like that one site that tracks the lies of Elon Musk, with a count for each day it has passed since then. Or how Rush Limbagh said he would do waterboarding.

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    I’m not sad to see you’ve left LW, but I am sad to see that you’re choosing db0 as your new home. I used to have really positive feelings towards that instance, but I was left very soured on them after an interaction I had a few weeks ago involving some pretty damn blatant abuse of mod/admin powers (admittedly, a different admin seems to have stepped in to correct some of the abuse, but the abusive admin is still around and has not been reprimanded). It feels no different to the shit that Lund engages in.

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      admittedly, a different admin seems to have stepped in to correct some of the abuse

      Seems faster and more fair than what LW is doing due to rules overhead:

      Edit: goat commented after reversing the dbzer0 bans on ! [email protected] , which was part of an escalation between PugJesus and goat on one side, and dbzer0 users and admins on the other

      I want to start by saying that I know I played a part in letting this spiral out of control. For my part in escalating the situation, I apologise. I do not want this to keep escalating. I want to explain where I was coming from and why I made the choices I did. For starters, I was suffering, and still am, from a loss in my family. I try to keep my personal life separate, but anxiety still seeps through. I’ll try to keep that under control better.

      More details on https://lemmy.world/comment/19464677

      For the YPTB link: https://lazysoci.al/post/34408656

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        More details on https://lemmy.world/comment/19464677

        When I tried to talk about it, I was called a nazi and a fascist, then banned along with people who defended me.

        And that thread is now 10 days old and has not had any further comment from the db0 people.

        Which is sorta my point. They might not be as bad as Lund is, but they’re at the very least of the same kind. And I don’t love embracing that. Why not go to lemmy.zip, one of the country-specific instances, or pretty much any Piefed instance (I don’t think I’ve ever seen admin drama out of a Piefed instance) instead of going from one drama-filled abusive overlords to another?

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          And that thread is now 10 days old and has not had any further comment from the db0 people.

          The dbzer0 people commented on the other thread I linked in that comment.

          The main dbzer0 admin:

          This was unexpected but I’m glad goat came to their senses and realized we’ve never been tankies. Unfortunately all this caused a lot of bad blood which will take a while to heal, but I personally don’t hold grudges like that.

          https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21526306

          They might not be as bad as Lund is, but they’re at the very least of the same kind.

          That whole episode was quite something, there’s a detailed post about it if you want: https://aussie.zone/post/24299113?scrollToComments=true

          My comment there was this one: https://aussie.zone/post/24299113/18642086

          Basically, PugJesus was keeping using one comment from a dbzer0 admin, when that same admin made another comment just after that clarified their stance.

          There was a lot of antagonism at the time, now things to have calmed down for a bit.

          And if you want to see actual admin abuse, let me show you this comment, with a SJW admin calling me an “energy vampire”: https://aussie.zone/post/17029239/14339689

          I never reached out to the other SJW admins about that chain of comments, that admin doesn’t seem that active anymore, but just to say that no admins are perfect, I try to not hold grudges to other instances if another admin stepped in and correct the wrongdoing of another one.

          Edit: just had a look again, the SJW admin was defending the power trip of the [email protected] mods.

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            That whole episode was quite something, there’s a detailed post about it if you want

            There’s a lot there, and I’m certainly not reading every single comment and every single link posted. But from the post itself, and the screenshots contained therein, db0 comes away looking really bad.

            All this talk about Uyghurs is, frankly, not especially interesting to me in this context. It’s a distraction from the main mod abuse that concerns me. I myself was banned by one of their mods. Another mod overruled them, but I never received an apology or explanation from the mod responsible. As long as that remains true, and the mod responsible is still a mod, I absolutely maintain my original stance.

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              db0 comes away looking really bad.

              It comes looking bad because the whole post was kind of a smear campaign about the instance.

              I never received an apology or explanation from the mod responsible. As long as that remains true, and the mod responsible is still a mod, I absolutely maintain my original stance.

              Interesting enough, I just had a look at the comment in the thread you mentioned

              Oh, my bad. I see that you’ve reapproved the comment though. My sincere thanks.

              @[email protected], I’d love to know what your thought process was at the time.

              https://aussie.zone/comment/18622436

              Unruffled never received that ping, their username is @[email protected]

              I’m going to try something to kind of settle that issue, it might not work, but at least I will have tried.

              @[email protected] , could you please provide some details about this mod decision?

              https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52333434/21106378

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                The details are that I removed this comment towards davel which seemed like nothing but a random insult that had nothing whatsoever to do with the post topic and seemed likely to just derail the conversation. I should maybe have noted it as off topic rather than just being needlessly abusive.

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                their username is @[email protected]

                Urgh what? Custom display names is the worst feature of Lemmy, and users who abuse that to give the appearance of a completely different name suck.

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            Wow, the SJW admin was mad at you documenting shit. More proof to never make an account there.

            Still find it interesting that Zag hasn’t responded to this info. Almost like they have a hate boner for db0…

            I’m not going to pretend db0 is perfect but the admin team is miles better than .world, SJW, and .ml

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              lol, what happened to “I will assume good faith and intelligence until proven otherwise.”

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              Aww sweetums, I see those silent downvotes. Can’t take some genuine criticism? Grow up, troll.

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              I’ve discussed with @[email protected] several times before, they’ve always been nice. Let’s not forget that there was indeed a power tripping action that db0 corrected.

              Things are more nuanced than “this person has a hate boner”

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                lol wtf is wrong with that person? I assume the person you’re responding to has to be a troll, because that’s genuinely the only way their comment makes sense. They’re accusing me of having a “hate boner” because…I didn’t read a thousand words in the timeframe they would like? Fuck off dickhead.

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                  Yeah Eugene is known to be overtly defensive about dbzer0, while again, in this case there was a mod decision that was overruled, but there was still a power tripping decision at the beginning.

                  People can make mistakes, the most important part is about correcting them.

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    Canadian here. Also frustrated at Jordan’s Americansplaining of Canadian things. Also also incredibly enraged over current US government trying to destabilize Canada (and laughing at how they failed)

    Curious: any particular reason why dbzer0 over sh.itjust.works?

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      You and me both on all of it. It’s bad enough we have a whole ass country effectively declaring war on us. Allowing Jordan to continue that type of nonsense? Nuh uh.

      As for why db0, there’s a few reasons but all of them are more personal than anything else. Like not stuff I could accurately describe to you. Also I like the name a little better to be honest

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          Under Canada’s Westminster-style parliamentary democracy, the terms government and Government of Canada refer specifically to the prime minister, Cabinet, and other members of the governing party inside the House of Commons, but typically includes the federal public service and federal departments and agencies when used elsewhere.[7] This differs from the United States, where the executive branch is referred to as an administration and the federal government encompasses executive, legislative, and judicial powers, similar to the Canadian Crown. Source

          In Canada, a “Member of Government” (note the capitals) is a member of the ruling administration. America uses stuff like “Trump Administration” or “Obama Administration” but in Canada we just call it the “Government of Canada”. There started to be a slight drift during Harper (the Prime Minister before Trudeau) towards calling it the Harper Government but there was a large amount of pushback because the terminology “Government of Canada” is both a legal and traditional one. Calling it a specific government makes it feel dissociated from the country and not serving us.

          So when the user said that a particular elected MP was not a Member of Government, he was meaning that he wasn’t in the ruling party. This is normal and common usage in Canada. Jordan, however, was unaware of this distinction. He removed the user for misinformation. Since then he has been told he was wrong by every Canadian and by the admins themselves but refuses to back down. My guess is because he’s a narcissist who is incapable of ever admitting fault because it would shatter his pathetically fragile ego.

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    Yeah Lemmy.world has a big problem with moderation, specifically where the rubber meets the road. They seem to want to appeal to everyone in the most garbage enlightened centrist way. They’re still federated with hilariouschaos by the way despite it being clear that it’s a clone of exploding heads and they said they want to keep it federated because they “aren’t hurting anyone” fuck that and fuck them. They need to grow a spine and actually enforce their rules knowing that it doesn’t matter if you piss off right wing dipshits.

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    Yeah it made me pretty unhappy to see the “News” community just be an American news feed, and to know that this dumb yank moderates the “World News” community with the same pigheaded USA-centric attitude that we’ve come to expect from Americans is disheartening.

    I can’t do Db0 because they love AI over there and I sort of don’t feel comfortable joining a bunch of anti-human dorks looking at a feed of robot slop, so that’s out of the picture, but I’ll find somewhere!

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      I can’t do Db0 because they love AI over there and I sort of don’t feel comfortable joining a bunch of anti-human dorks looking at a feed of robot slop, so that’s out of the picture, but I’ll find somewhere!

      You can ignore those communities, we don’t ban/prohibit people because they don’t like it.

      But hey glad to know you think we’re non-human because some people enjoy using their computers for things. Your morals can be sold because someone did something on their computer that doesn’t impact you.

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      I can’t do Db0 because they love AI over there and I sort of don’t feel comfortable joining a bunch of anti-human dorks looking at a feed of robot slop, so that’s out of the picture, but I’ll find somewhere!

      I mean you can just ignore the AI-themed communities on dbzer0.

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      I sort of don’t feel comfortable joining a bunch of anti-human dorks looking at a feed of robot slop.

      That was uncalled for, lol. In my experience we are a very diverse group of dorks and I sort of dont feel comfortable with antagonizing attitudes such as yours anyways, so, thanks.

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            • Stand up against genocide, people get mad
            • Stand up against Nazi bars, people get mad
            • Stand up against harassment from instances, people get mad
            • Stand up for the moral consistency of copyright is a shit show from 1500s Scotland, people get mad
            • Stand up for the person documenting a moderator’s abuse of privileges, people get mad.
            • Stand up for people speaking and minds and voting how they feel, people get mad.

            I think they just hate us and want any reason to have a “valid” reason. How dare we disagree with their moderator enforced hivemind.

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        You’re very welcome 🤖🤖

        Actually I just wanted to add: I didn’t criticise the diversity of people on your instance, or anything of the sort. I think diversity is a great thing, and I’m glad that you find Db0 to be a diverse place!

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          So you didnt just called the entirety of the instance a “bunch of anti human dorks looking at a feed of robot slop”?

          Because it sure sounded like you did.

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            I didn’t criticise the diversity outside of the anti-human nature of the instance, no.

            You can be a very diverse group of people, but have shared beliefs. I made no comment about the diversity of that instance, even in the bit you quoted.

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    Of course lemmy.world admins didn’t hold Jordan accountable. If they did, that would mean recognizing their bias and trying to correct it - can’t have that.

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      I will say that I was speaking to an admin, before and after this post, and I was told that they’re talking about it but due to a lot of their own rules on removing community moderators it’s more of a process that requires more time. Totally grant that and it makes sense, it’s just more time than I’m willing to let go.

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        Even if it takes time, be transparent about it, update the community and explain how long you expect things to take.

        Keeping people in the dark will quickly be interpreted as “we don’t care”

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            “Why would we remove him now? We love that he removes content we dislike, like calling out genocide, non-Americans knowing better, and any criticism of our favorite political party.”

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              we’re working on his ability to do pr as we just dislike how he makes us look not what he does

              O/U on just a new account gets added as the other is removed? If does more than just a wrist slap?

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          jordan has been removed from our community team several days ago and we’re still reviewing further stuff to determine additional actions to take.

          there is no clear date to put on this other than my previous comment about it taking several days, as this is all shitty work that takes time and is not something that anyone is looking forward to do. it’s obviously our responsibility to review an act in situations like this, but there is only so much time available from volunteers. i’m hoping that we can finalize it this weekend, as weekends tend to be when people have more time available.

          there have been multiple voices within our team, as well as from Ruud, to simply strip his moderator permissions from all communities, but this is not something aligning with our rules, especially as this specific part was established after the c/vegan drama some time ago. there are multiple reasons justifying removal of moderators from LW communities, but if we apply them we need to ensure that we have proper justification for that, for every affected community, which is the main thing that is currently still being worked on. i expect that we will find valid justifications for at least some communities, but we need to do this before the removal.

          the actions taken so far were primarily relating to his behavior while being a member of our team, not due to his behavior as a community moderator or regular user, as we intend to hold our team to higher standards than regular users or moderators, making this a lot easier to justify.

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            you’ve had plenty of time to figure your shit out. at this point you’re just slow rolling it as cover hoping it blows over.

            which it wont… because jordan will keep causing problems for you lol.

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              Let’s see after this week-end. A thorough review of all the actions listed in the post would indeed take a while.

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                It’s been over 10 days, I am doubting they’ll remove him fully.

                I’ll donate $5 to lemmy.world’s servers if they do before the end of September 2025. Please hold me up to this.

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                  Me too!! I don’t like .world (as it is now), and I was instance-banned from there long ago (cowards), but I’ll donate $5 to them as well if he’s removed from all the politics and news communities before end of September 2025!

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            I understand time is needed for a proper review as well as needing additional time to accommodate for the fact that it’s all run by volunteers.

            However, most of us simply want transparency. There has been no formal announcement thread on this to my knowledge, just replies to the threads that get started about it.

            If you’re investigating, announce what, why, and how far along. Give us details as to what’s going on and the options that are on the table. It doesn’t have to be a meticulous blow-by-blow, but the transparency so far is on the other end of the extreme. Maybe if y’all were trying to move against him before he knew what was happening I could see it, but there’s no way he doesn’t know what’s going down at this point.

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            So is 10 days to remove the moderation permissions just not enough time? I’ve been a mod on Lemmy on another account, making a mod and removing mods doesn’t take anything longer than 2 minutes.

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              should we just purge all mods of LW communities because someone says so? we don’t arbitrarily remove mods without a proper review. it’s not the action of removing someone that requires time but the review whether it should be done.

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                It’s been months of issues with one user, by multiple users saying he’s been an issue. He’s been transphobic. He’s been defending genocide. He’s been defending banning people for knowing better than he does.

                It’s not oh one user doesn’t like him it’s dozens of users over months to over a year with complaints.

                If anything else moved this slow we’d call it out too.

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                should we just purge all mods of LW communities because someone says so?

                Of course not. But you equally shouldn’t frame this situation as some completely arbitrary complaint made by the platonic default user.

                There is a clear pattern of abuse, arrogance, and animosity over a substantial span of time. Individuals from the .world admin team have observed and commented on some of these actions on multiple occasions. None of what Stamets collected and organized in his post was new information hitherto unknown by you all.

                As you are the one commenting now, I will assume that you speak for the .world admin team as a whole. I appreciate that you collectively wish to make a calculated and informed decision, and I understand the time burden that comes with volunteer efforts. Ultimately, however, instance administration is not a court of law. Moderation is not a livelihood. The only consequences of relieving Jordan of his volunteer burden are community outrage and hurt feelings. He can’t sue you to be reinstated or win a judgement for lost wages.

                While I applaud your desire to foster the appearance of keeping everything above board and within the boundaries you all have put in place for yourselves, I must also deride what appears to be unintended hypocrisy: It sounds as if you all have decided what needs to happen and are now engaged in finding the narrative that fits the rules and gets you to your predetermined outcome.

                Ubi pus, ibi evacua, not ubi pus, regula consule.

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                  Of course not. But you equally shouldn’t frame this situation as some completely arbitrary complaint made by the platonic default user.

                  Yeah this seems to be an unfortunately common tactic with people like them, they just deflect and act like we’re asking them to just go around purging moderators at will because we told them to with no credible reasons.

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                If you can complete the review by the end of the week-end it should be fine.

                I don’t know why people are so impatient when things are actually moving.

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                  At the very least, more transpancy would be good. It looks like they’re doing the same thing they’ve done for months while saying “we’re doing something now.”

                  Does not help the same person said “if one person complains why should we remove them?” Which is not the argument being made.

                  We want Jordan to be removed. They aren’t doing it while saying they’re working on it.

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        That’s a bullshit copout. We’re not changing the laws of physics here. It’s a fucking internet website. If the rules are insufficient, change them.

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          Not entirely against how I feel but I want to clarify here that I’ve got no ill will towards them over this. Disappointment in how they’ve handled this, yeah, but I can see where they’re coming from even if I disagree with it

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            I wish I was at all surprised but this is how the admins have always acted. Especially when it’s something they want to do but the users hate

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        10 days?! What kind of rules make it take at least 10 days to remove someone? That’s crazy. Glad you left them and came over to the cool side. :)

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            They’re not going to elaborate, the most you’ll get from them is some word salad of technical and maybe buzzword jargon and excuses about fairness. Ultimately I think they just don’t want to be made fun of for moderating people, which is stupid, because people who make fun of you for getting moderated by you do not matter.

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              It’s unfair to remove a power mod who has an ego, he might go to bed angry that evening.

              Let’s forget all the people he removed who was right the entire time. Who could have been never been banned because they upset his ego.

              Lemmy.world has to be fair here. And no, they won’t unban anyone he banned for the reasons he’s been “in trouble” with the admin team before. Or any of the many reasons he’s gotten .world in trouble.

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    Hey stamets! Good to see you outside of ten forward! Keep up the good work homie! And I like db0 because the hexabear idiots hate them. Really the best indicator I’ve seen

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    Welcome to the instance! I hope your time here is found enjoyable.

    Not shocked at all Jordan didn’t even get punished. It’s an internet moderator gig, you take .5 seconds to appoint someone, and they can even remove themselves.

    Let it be known that .world is a liberal copy of .ml that they loudly complain about. Removing things they disagree with, power tripping mods, and an enforced point of view amung the communities the power mods and admins control. They just don’t like that .ml does it for different political reasons.

    If .world was gone I’d miss a few people, but we’d have less zionazis, transphobes, and generally smug insufferable people.

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    I even left a comment under Ruud’s comment asking him why nothing had been done after 5 days. His response? Crickets.

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        Oh I missed that update, so good to know.

        there have been multiple voices within our team, as well as from Ruud, to simply strip his moderator permissions from all communities

        Um, yeah, they just need to do that and stop dragging their feet. lol

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          Weird how they can ban users within minutes because they said “maybe we don’t need to support the parties that hold our politics hostage” but removing someone will take months and weeks.

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            Yep! And they mentioned that Jordan was removed from the “community team” but I don’t even know what that is or what the “community team” even did.

            Does “community team” mean that Jordan was the one who came up with some of the rules for the c/politics community? Cuz I notice he would say that he was just following the rules, but who made those rules that he was following?

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              And they mentioned that Jordan was removed from the “community team” but I don’t even know what that is or what the “community team” even did.

              Honestly I’m not even sure and I was asked to be on it years ago. I just dug through old private messages and found

              In fact, we are setting up a community engagement and community management teams. One to get users to post more and one to make sure the communities are well moderated.

              My guess is that overtime both groups were merged into one. However Jordan being on that team is a joke.

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    Welcome to the Flotilla! What this effectively means is that the content of /0 is about to get 1000% more Star Trek flavored, which for the record I’m happy with, since we’re probably the most ND-oriented instance out there and these two fit like lego :D

    While this doesn’t exactly for this comm, it is technically about a result of mod power trippin’ and stamets has asked permission for it. So it’s all good.