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By the way, people talk a lot about how lemmy.world censors luigi, but I use lemmy.world and see, upvote and sometimes comment on plenty of luigi stuff without mod intervention. Maybe it’s just one of two communities (subreddits) where it’s enforced.

That’s because the knee-jerk reaction for many of the mods/admins of .world communities, like news, was to massively censor and temp ban people for celebrating what Luigi did… for about 6 hours.

They were massively lambasted for this, they provided nonsensical explanations for the censorship with flimsy explanations based on their community and instance rules which they were very obviously selectively interpreting, were lambasted for these explanations, and then after about 6 hours they largely reversed course, stopped policing ao heavily and undid a bunch of the 24 hour instance wide temp bans.

You can find a few threads/posts on the yepowertrippinbastards community of lemmy.dbzero about this, or check their own modlogs, if they haven’t scrubbed or obfuscated them.

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davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ah that all makes sense now, thank you for explaining.

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Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Seems more or less accurate. Partly it’s that we’re all learning this together. Partly it’s that we have a variety of mods that are different for each major community. Partly I think it was an overreaction to legal obligations. Partly it’s that when you have a hammer (mod/admin tools), the tendency is to think that you should use them.

Not an excuse, of course. But people really easily love to criticize any kind of leadership with a broad brush without much willingness or understanding of how things should be led. You wouldn’t believe the number of people who say they “don’t have time” to moderate a community that likely takes less than five minutes of work a month.

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