After being harassed in multiple discord channels by powermod FlyingSquid the news mod blackbeard has shuttered his account and moved to bluesky.

https://ibb.co/cY44MgF

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?

  • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
    543·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Serinus@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      That one was the other way, Blackbeard threatening FlyingSquid. Blackbeard has never had the power to site ban, only community ban.

      • Andrew@piefed.socialEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        Yeah - I was disagreeing with the OP. I quoted BB because later on they said “I’ve not even HINTED at banning you [from the community]”

    • LukácsFan1917@lemmy.mlEnglish
      533·
      2 months ago

      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!

      • JonsJava@lemmy.worldEnglish
        152·
        2 months ago

        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

        • LukácsFan1917@lemmy.mlEnglish
          110·
          2 months ago

          That’s an unusual plea to get me to stop assblasting you since churlishness and complaining have failed. Try getting more creative.

          • WrenFeathers@lemmy.world
            32·
            2 months ago

            Oh by all means continue. It’s incredibly entertaining! Similiar to watching a mouse spin on a wheel- tons of effort, but for such minimal distance covered.

            And I know, I know

            It’s all for exercise.

            So-

            The mouse at least has an excuse for it….

            🍿