Unfortunately, it still happens even here on Lemmy. I don’t think we see it as much because most communities here have far fewer mods than adjacent Reddit subs on average, but occasionally you’ll find a mod here who thinks they know better than their community and does whatever they feel like.
I feel like that trope doesn’t really ring true these days, as most of the “general purpose” instances are pretty moderate. Back when Lemmy was still just a small handful of instances, that was definitely the case, but I think the wider adoption has balanced things out a bit closer toward center, overall.
Crazy that they wrote an entire article for one guy’s conversation about motor oil. Sounds like a really effective use of resources that is very real and not made up.
“But she’s so empowering!” the fans will say, nevermind the fact that she only seems to “empower” fraudsters.
That’s generally how it works, yes.
Or it’s the day before March 1.
You have to get Beetlejuice tickets for that.
I will absolutely blame the voters, because it’d literally be their fault. That’s how elections work.
Shame, that one was easy enough that even my mom was able to watch her shows. Hopefully the Hydra regenerates quickly.
How did the wakeyuppymen know what time to start wakeyuppying, tho?
if it worked, there would be no unemployment.
That would imply that 100% of unemployed people are referred to this program, or made aware of its existence at all.
Well, falling into the same traps would be awfully Sisyphean of him.
Or instead of subverting the will of the community, you could create /c/lemmyfossapps and moderate that, instead. It makes more sense to make a separate community than to fracture one that already exists.
Spot-on. I knew what this was before I clicked it.
The poll was improperly conducted and way too short for users to adequately find in time. This announcement is the first I’m hearing about this discussion or poll at all.
I think this might be jumping the gun. Also, it’s poor form, imo, to change the focus of a community after it’s been established. It would make more sense to create /c/lemmyfossapps or something similar. Taking a broadly-focused community and narrowing it down after people have already joined feels wrong.
Those are my two cents, since I never got a chance to respond to the poll, which allegedly already had a pretty narrow margin.
Edit: Within 28 mins I’ve got -9 votes and nothing to answer. Think it proves my point.
The fact that you think there is a “point” to be made when you’re supposed to be the one asking a question and trying to learn, shows us that you had ill intent from the start. You told on yourself with this one.
I think you’ve mistaken Putin’s motive. It takes 2 weeks for the body to dissolve in their special sauce.
Ironically, this is also the pro-life crowd, too. Weird how they don’t care about the lives of children.
Gerwoman.
I disagree, you can see so much on the old layout specifically because it’s a wall of text. The new layout is unnecessarily bloated and takes up your whole screen on every device you view it from, so you can barely see more than one or two posts at a time. It removes the ability for the user to freely scroll and look at things that interest them, and forces the user’s attention onto exactly what the algorithm wants them to. The new layout removes a ton of agency from the user.