I said something along the lines of:
“Wow, I haven’t had a reason to smile ear to ear in a while.”
Along with
“Nah, the more dead corpos dragons, the better.”
In response to some liberal going off about how violence is never the solution, not mentioning how this murdered dipshit has personally overseen a system that perpetuates harm, suffering and death (violence) in the name of profit.
…
Good ole’ civility clause.
Whats the paradox of tolerance?
.world mods have never heard of it I guess.
I’m just here to point out that everyone’s going to use the downvote button as a “disagree” button and the upvote as “agree,” and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop us. You can’t hold back the tide.
Yes.
As an anarchist, I am keenly aware that rules are merely suggestions, and are utterly meaningless when no system exists to actually enforce them.
The whole thing is all just made up. There are no “rules” written down like there are for software systems. There are just shared habits and models of the world, and traditions for how to react. In general, people agree and keep it all consistent enough from day to day that the rules in their heads translate into behavior and dependable systems in the real world. But it’s all just made up. It’s just people deciding what to do, every minute, in every society, based on what they decide in their brain, no matter how strict the “rules” that supposedly exist are.
Like how we could ‘make up’ having a healthcare system that provides universal affordable care to all citizens, but instead … we …
(not actually all of us, actually the extremely wealthy and influential people who control government policy and all the media that tells us what to think about government policy)
… ‘we’ make up a horrible, unjust system that perpetuates suffering, violence and death, so that a tiny minority of people can profit!
What I’m saying is that there is no mechanical system that puts those particular people in charge.
We had the gilded age, we had the labor battles that laid the foundation for the working economy of the 20th century, we had the New Deal and prosperity for a lot of people, then we let it get away from us and the crooks took charge again. But it all can change. We can make it different. People have fought their way back to good government from places a million times worse than modern-day America.
I’m not sure what you mean by mechanical.
Obviously there is not a physical machine like a 3d printer that produces a sociopoliticaleconomic system.
But there are absolutely empirically verified theories within sociology, political science, and economics which describe why historical events happened with a pretty good degree of accuracy, and a lot of them do function pretty mechanistically to predict likely future outcomes, though with a wider margin of possibility than physics predicting a physical machine.
I’m saying that nothing enforces these particular people being in charge, other than everyone agreeing that these are the people in charge, and that can change.
It has, in huge ways, for better and worse depending, all throughout history.
nothing enforces these particular people being in charge,
Is this a joke?
You’re saying there’s no military, no police, no jobs that take all our time just to stay alive, no media that reinforces the desired narrative, no corruption, no broken electoral system, no economic stratification, no relgion and bigotry used to convince people to support their own materially worsening lives, no intentionally broken education system… none of that enforces who is in charge?
I could go on for actual hours about ludicrous this statement is, you have to almost entirely ignorant of history, poli sci, sociology, econ, a whole number of other fields, to be able to say something like this.
I saw that old tired “It’s not a disagree button! Only downvote comments that don’t add to the discussion!” thing time and time again on reddit, but I’ve never seen it here. I hoped that it was accepted and understood that they are indeed agree/disagree buttons.
People might think that they shouldn’t be that, but it’s immaterial. That’s how people are going to use them, so other people might as well get used to it.
Honestly, I’ve never seen it be a problem for them to be like that. Whatever people were afraid of, it clearly wasn’t a big deal. They work fine.
PTB, comments celebrating a person who’s horrible are not encouraging violence. This is clearly an attempt from the mods to push their agenda. Their replies here in this thread support this theory.
for me i consider human life sacred and despite the mistakes of this person only God may judge us.
I think this comment snippet speaks for itself honestly.
yay, yet another venue for cultists to push their garbage on the unwilling.
So many things wrong with that statement, including the falsehood that only God can judge. We do have courts, including the court of public opinion.
Well, I’m as much god as whatever they’re worshipping, so I guess I’ll do the judging.
This is clearly an attempt from the mods to push their agenda. Their replies here in this thread support this theory.
“for me i consider human life sacred and despite the mistakes of this person only God may judge us.”
The dastardly, scurilous, vile agenda that human life is sacred. Well done Sherlock, you uncovered the next Hitler.
Human life is sacred. All the people who died because of denied insurance claims and corporate greed deserve their killer (corporate insurance CEOs) brought to justice. Unfortunately, this is the only way too accomplish that goal.
Why is it, that every time I see a post from you, you’re saying something stupid?
They’re just one of the many trolls or bad faith lemmy users who hasn’t been banned by the server you’re on or their home server admins. Like Linkerbaan, hopefully they will in the future. I made a spreadsheet of users like that, since Lemmy itself has no way to tag or leave notes on user’s profiles that only you can see.
Human life isn’t sacred. The prick who got murdered cared less about human life and has more blood on his hands than anyone celebrating his demise. People have been fighting insurance companies by legal means for years and things have only gotten worse. Violence may be the only way to get change. They already reversed that awful anesthesia policy that was announced the other day.
Literally nobody believes that human life is sacred. They may want to believe that they believe it, but one only need look at the world to see that they contradict the claim with action every day.
What people beieve is that they’re better than others, and “life is sacred” is just a tool in the toolbox of looking down upon others.
If they or even you really believed human life was sacred you’d see the piece of shit who died for the piece of shit he is as he and his company was responsible for the deaths of so many many innocent people. Instead of trying to hide behind worthless religious doctrine and saying it’s wrong to be happy that this evil person died because “all life is sacred” this is like saying “All lives matter” as a reactionary response to BLM, it makes you and that other commenter sound like one of those alt-right religious types, in the same way saying “all lives matter” in response to BLM makes you sound like a racist pig.
You may think what you are saying is good and may be confused as to why people are angry at you. The fact is that the context of the situation can make something that seems and indeed is considered good in a vacuum can make it look and sound extremely bad and make the person saying it just as bad.
Hitler referenace check… Now do the Jews and the camps, dear 🤡
dios mío, A LIBERAL!
I think they should make a post addressing this but it is pretty funny to see people’s reactions
I’m not at all surprised by the negative talk, but removing the thread is a terrible look.
The news is still relevant, current, developing, and of interest to many people, including me.
Let people be jerks. If I recall, the first comment to be removed was about guillotines. Bad taste, yes, but c’mon.
Nobody removed the thread. There was one repost removal, but other than that, all I see in the modlog is comment removals and bans. The relevant, current, developing, and of interest story is not exactly a secret as of right now.
A thread I was following in News@lemmy.world is deleted. I had it saved and was referring back to it and other searches in hopes of updates as it’s very relevant to me personally.
Not a huge deal of course, but I know at least one conversation was nuked, even if this post doesn’t refer to that incident.
It looks like there were a handful of reposts that got removed. I don’t know why I had only seen the one.
I get what you’re saying now. It sucks to have an active thread of conversation suddenly get nuked. On the other hand, it’s not a good situation to have 5 different duplicate posts of the exact same story cluttering up the feed for no reason.
It’s not related to the calls for violence. It’s just from the reposts. I think your irritation should maybe be directed at the people who don’t check if a post is a duplicate before posting it. I’m not sure what else the mods could do in that situation that’s any better than what they did, since Lemmy doesn’t have functionality for redirecting comment threads from multiple duplicate posts together into one, or anything like that.
A 24 hour temp ban for celebrating violence is actually pretty reserved. Certainly not power tripping.
Counterargument: no.
E: To elaborate, the terms of service say:
“**We do not tolerate threats of and calls for violence in any form against any living creature.**”
Merely expressing glee is not calling for violence or threatening a living creature. Banning someone for a rule they didn’t break, for any duration, is overreach.
CEO isn’t even living anymore so they’re not breaking the rule just based off that.
Except that it very much is. How can you not see that?
These gleeful comments are very much what? Celebrating violence, as you originally said? If so, sure. However, celebrating violence is not against the rules. Go to any Ukrainian-on-Russian drone strike video and you’ll find plenty of people celebrating death. What is against the rules is making threats or calling people to violent action against another. These are very much not the same thing. In the insurace CEO thread, the overwhelming majority of removed comments were not making threats or trying to incite more violence.
Celebrating violence is a method used to call for more violence. And the reason the war isn’t heavily moderated is because it’s a war. It’s already at the worst state, and further violence is a foregone conclusion. That’s a massive difference to celebrating a murder. Being popular doesn’t mean it’s okay suddenly.
I expected empire apologia in your comment history, and you delivered. Classic.
Oh god you made me snort.
There’s still a clear distinction between celebrating violence and calling for further violence.
You’re making a leap between the two.
They are explicitly and literally not the same thing, even if celebrating can be, and often is, used as part of a call for more.
Every cat is an animal, but not every animal is a cat.
The problem is you guys want to lawyer this like it’s legislation. You’re not wrong about the dictionary definitions. You are however absolutely wrong about how the English language is used and how violence is propagated.
This how the general population feels… Cope dear
Denying millions of legitimate claims that directly leads to many people being physically harmed or dying is violence on a large scale. So is lobying the government to keep healthcare in shambles for hundreds of millions of people.
It’s a less visible, less gorey form of violence than a gun, but violence that begets mass suffering and death nonetheless.
If you define that as violence then everything is violence and nothing is legitimate. Overly broad definitions meant to paralyze society are a form of violence because people will die if we take no action, but we can’t take action because Vent defined that as violence.
Overly broad definitions meant to paralyze society are a form of violence because people will die if we take no action
100% agree, this is a propaganda tactic used constantly by politicians and the rich and powerful. For example, if one were to broaden the definition of “illegal immigrant” to include more people, then use that definition to incite racism and mass deportation, I would consider that rhetoric a form of violence.
Would a military commander at war be considered non-violent because they only order subordinates to shoot but don’t do the shooting themselves? Is the president ordering a nuke non-violent because they don’t drop the bomb themselves?
Now, what if someone were to order the denial of life-saving medical care to thousands of civilians that have already paid for it?
We can’t take action because Vent defined that as violence.
When did I say we can’t take action against violence, or that violent actions don’t sometimes call for violent responses?
That’s the joke. If you define violence as broadly as you have then you end up in an ethical trap that has only one exit; violence is moral and I should use it to protect my values before it is used on me.
I simply didn’t highlight the exit in my previous comment. But I can see from yours that you’ve already decided this and decided this excuses people from following any rules about not propagating violence.
na your just committing the absurdist logical fallacy. violence absolutely can be ethical and we’re rapid approaching that state in the US.
There’s large differences between violence being immoral, having qualified exceptions, and being moral. Most people are in the middle. Every really shitty period of time, like when commoners were being executed en masse in the French Revolution, lives in the violence is moral category. I don’t know about you but I’d like to avoid living in a time where my neighbor can report me to the secret police and I get sent to the gulag, or where educated people are rounded up and shot because they “can’t be trusted”.
That’s where celebrating mob violence leads, on the left and right.
uh huh. no one is talking about murdering civvies. we’re discussing good trimming the ol’ bourgeois stock as its become sick and a danger to us. its good that you’re trying to contextualize situations. now all you need to do is contextualize the what people are actually saying vs. what you think they’re saying.
Now well, if you are in the bourgeois class. might want to start getting your house in order. start punishing your bad actors appropriately etc.
I’m hearing that you believe violence is never moral, correct? Is Ukraine amoral to use violence to stop Russia’s invasion?
I never said that so I don’t know why you would believe that.
All I’m getting from this is that you’re fine with people needlessly dying as long as the death wasn’t a direct result of violence.
Of course not. But more death isn’t the answer. Because we’ve seen that route and it doesn’t end the cycle. Check out France and Russia. They didn’t solve anything with their incredibly violent reprisals against their ruling classes. The only way to end this cycle is to end the existence of a wealthy elite. Which you can do by taking their money away.
What about WWII? The US Revolution? The US civil war? The Haitian Revolution? Is France really worse off now? Ukraine?
Violence / death is very rarely the answer to anything, but it’s a cold hard fact that sometimes it is, especially when you start bringing war and revolutions into it, lmao.
The only way to end this cycle is to end the existence of a wealthy elite. Which you can do by taking their money away.
“Hand over your money, please!”
To be clear, I’m not advocating for killing anyone in the streets, and vigilante justice like this is not something I’d like to see, but the blanket response of “violence bad” is plain wrong.
The US Revolution wasn’t anything like the French and Russian ones. Haiti was but it wasn’t Haitians that screwed them over afterwards, it was the US. So maybe they could have been the one time where an orgy of violence worked?
To be clear, I’m not advocating for killing anyone in the streets, and vigilante justice like this is not something I’d like to see, but the blanket response of “violence bad” is plain wrong.
Except you’re here defending exactly that.
Based on your arguments here you’re basically saying that celebrating (or maybe even even simply not condemning?) this act of violence means that you must tacitly endorse this type of violence, correct? That’s a very long bow to draw.
I think most people, myself included, would much prefer a non-violent way to prevent capitalists from profiting directly from the physical and financial misery of sick and dying people. Like maybe some stronger laws, better regulation and enforcement, and active prosecution of non-compliant companies and their bosses, for a start, right? But in the seeming absence of that possibility, why not let folks have their schadenfreude moment in peace?
🤡
looks like most of the mod actions you are looking at were done by little_cow (do not tag or harass) who has actually been fairly decent and understanding in my interactions with them.
very likely these actions are being done by threat of the .world admins, who cannot be replaced or swayed as it’s their property (servers) that host the content. not getting in on either side of this because honestly idgaf but if any of this upsets you:
vote with your activity and registration and stop using lemmy.world. i was here before they essentially made lemmy a centralized platform and trust me it was way cooler back then, it could be that way again.
vote with your activity and registration and stop using lemmy.world
Additionally, people who moderate communities there might consider to either create or join alternatives elsewhere. Because, seriously, this shit is .ml/Reddit tier.
I can’t really discuss the actual topic here intelligibly bc I always block !politics@lemmy.world as one of if not the very first action for every new account I make anywhere across the Fediverse (I simply prefer the alternatives like !climate@slrpnk.net and !globalnews@lemmy.zip), nor have I looked into the modlog as you have. But may I make a tangential observation, if it’s not too annoying for it to be off-topic like this?
Have you seen the actual - albeit dog whistled - calls for violence, naming actual names and showing actual faces? I just saw one in Shitpost (https://lemmy.world/post/22802422), another in Memes, and there are additional cross-posts as well. Similar content or others that likewise extoll the virtues of violence include Comic Strips (https://mander.xyz/post/21552536) showing up in communities all across Lemmy, like here’s one that’s not the post itself but rather the comment section in Not The Onion (https://midwest.social/post/20083880).
I thought that such calls for violence - as Admiral Patrick calls it somewhere here in the comments of this post, a “lynch mob mentality” - would die down quickly after the election, but it seems quite the opposite instead. So it’s a very emotionally charged issue right now. And I even get it, though aside from rightness or wrongness, people each have their preferences as to what they can stomach, and e.g. someone with lived experience through such (like a school shooting event) may not be able to handle all of this.
Anyway I’m glad that you are sharing alternatives, bc no matter what, we need to not be dependent upon a single instance. But I do see where - again, setting aside right vs. wrong - there’s a real split across Lemmy right now about how such matters “should” be handled. At which point I agree with you in spirit that there NEEDS to be transparency in the moderation practices (even if, as others have suggested elsewhere here, this particular situation seems to be the result of a single moderator who may have acted overzealously to protect people from the rhetoric). Perhaps you can write a post to the mods or even admins of that instance asking for such, though it would probably be better to wait a week for this all to die down - perhaps the mod in question will apologize, or even be removed, though what you may want instead (but don’t let me put words into your mouth) is a clarification to be made to the wording of the community or instance rules. We really can affect the changes that we’d like to see, much of the time. And if/when not, then at least you know that you did your absolute best to try:-).
Edit: even a few hours later, the process has already begun, see e.g. the apology from the mod at https://lemmy.world/comment/13815531.
links
https://lemmy.world/post/22802422 has been deleted.
https://mander.xyz/post/21552536 is hard to interpret as praising violence IMO - no explanation is given why the pigeon (a typically passive animal) is burning the house.
https://midwest.social/post/20083880) is mostly people cheering on the current events. It does praise violence, but at the same time it acknowledges that CEO as a source of suffering for people.
I do think that mob mentality plays a role, but I don’t think that it’s the main factor here. People (not just you all in USA, but everywhere) are getting pissed; the ones in power always babbling that things will get better, and yet we don’t see it.
Perhaps you can write a post to the mods or even admins of that instance asking for such, though it would probably be better to wait a week for this all to die down - perhaps the mod in question will apologize, or even be removed, though what you may want instead (but don’t let me put words into your mouth) is a clarification to be made to the wording of the community or instance rules. We really can affect the changes that we’d like to see, much of the time. And if/when not, then at least you know that you did your absolute best to try:-).
I think that the issue is mostly on an admin level, not on a mod level. And based on previous interactions with one of those admins… seriously, I’ll pass - at least that one was a bit too eager to distort things to their convenience.
Plus you know, I’m awful at writing this sort of thing down - I write a full wall of text for what would need two lines.
They have their moderation style, you would do differently, and regardless of right or wrong the goal is to match moderation activities to the community desires. But that probably will require additional volunteers to really get off the ground, so that’s perhaps something that you could do? Ofc I cannot speak to your condition wrt your life status right now, I just hoped to point to whatever I could to help you realize that you are not powerless nor alone in wanting a sense of justice to be enacted - the trick being whose justice, especially when dealing with global cross-cultural values.
Wherever we go forward from here, it will require effort. And making that list is a good start:-).
I think that it’s less about different styles (like being laxer/stricter, sticking more/less to the letter of the rules, etc.) and more about bringing bad habits from Reddit. In Reddit neither your typical non-mod user nor your typical mod gives a damn about the rules - one expects to be able to go rogue unpunished and then punished for something random, while another wants a bullshit reason to get that feeling of power over the others. (Note that I’m talking on typical grounds. There were plenty decent = exceptional mods there, too.)
And, when I say that one of the admins was too eager to distort things to their convenience, I wasn’t even referring to my interactions with them as an admin, but just as another user. From Canvas 2025 times [I can give you further context if you want.]
I do know that it’ll require effort and a collective one, and I think that we [users in general] should work in that direction. I just think that I’m the wrong person for this specific job, I’m probably better at gathering info - like the lists.
I am trying to break things down into their component parts.
First, your lists are absolutely helpful, for many reasons even those unrelated to this incident, but for helping the Fediverse become less decentralized overall - so thank you for them:-).
Second, I have mostly avoided thinking about the actual admins yet bc I haven’t heard anything from them directly yet - though indirectly from the mod in question I did hear that the admins plan to modify the ToS to increase its transparency in relation to such things. It does valid to me that they need to worry about the police 🚨 knocking on their door 🚓, hence panicked a bit when they all that stuff. It’s also hard to figure some of that stuff out bc even if Lemmy.World is in - I don’t even know where, Germany? UK? France? somewhere in the EU I would suppose - if the USA feds were to ask them to remove it or else face some troubles, what kind of pressure would that place upon them?
Third, the actions of the actual mod in question have given me strong hope for the livelihood of the Fediverse in general - she apologized immediately, rescinded the bans, offered an explanation, and also her reasoning besides, and explained what she should have done and promised will do in the future instead.
I offered more depth on these matters in a recent reply to this comment from Blaze.
Except .ml would not ban you for these specific comments
But they would ban you for even remotely crtiical of NK, China, Russia, or Cuba. They’re terrible for different reasons.
No, it wouldn’t ban you for these specific comments, but it would ban you in the same exact scummy way: listing one rule, enforcing another, then lying that you violated the listed rule.
[Edit: I said “emphasis mine” and then deleted the quote. I’m a moron.]
I don’t even disagree with any of the mod actions here, and I fully agree with this.
I abandoned lemmy.world communities except for a handful of things, mostly the PugJesus communities and news@lemmy.world which for some reason is fine. Everything else, I found replacements for that seem like they’re way superior.
So much better.
big facts, especially for the worldnews community. for some reason my instance doesn’t see this quokk instance but i have to imagine that any mod team is better than the ineffectual nepotism heap of wilty lettuce that is !world@lemmy.world’s
!world@lemmy.world and !politics@lemmy.world are so strange. It’s just baffling. I haven’t even checked to see what’s currently going on, if MBFC bot is still around or if they’ve found a new troll to take under the protection of the mod team and ban people for arguing with. I don’t know, and I don’t want to know.
Looks like it’s !world@quokk.au and not worldnews
Hey not sure why it’s not visible on your end? I’ve seen other Lemmy.cafe users post there before.
Maybe give it a try tomorrow? Could be a Lemmy syncing thing.
@MBM@lemmings.world got me sorted. https://lemmings.world/comment/12313516 i just didn’t troubleshoot very hard lol
I decided to make an account on sjw because of this. Now I won’t get made fun of for having a .world account 😁
Welcome, we have (mostly) free speech over here.
here look I'll test it
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WHOAA COOL IT BUDDY!!
I’m not your buddy, pal.
🥳here as well
come on over and join us sh.itheads.
lmao just realized the initialism for shit just works is also for ‘social justice warrior’
Sorry for the double reply. I’ll create a list of alternatives to .world communities here; I’ll also add the ones you guys suggest, as long as not from .ml (as .ml and .world are apparently peas from the same pod.)
technology: !technology@lemmy.zip
politics: !uk_politics@feddit.uk (UK), !pleasantpolitics@slrpnk.net (USA), !canadapolitics@lemmy.ca (Canada), !australianpolitics@aussie.zone (Oz), !politics@beehaw.org (allegedly world, in practice USA)
news: !world@quokk.au , !globalnews@lemmy.zip
comic strips: I couldn’t find any general comm, but there’s !cyanideandhappiness@lemm.ee and !thefarside@sh.itjust.works
microblog memes: !best_of_mastodon@sh.itjust.works , !whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works , nonpoliticaltwitter@civilloquy.com
political memes: !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca , !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com
memes: !memes@sopuli.xyz
ask lemmy: !asklemmy@lemm.ee
movies and animattion: !movies@lemm.ee , !showsandmovies@lemm.ee , !animation@lemm.ee . Specifically for Japanese anime there’s ani.social (the whole instance).
EDIT: apparently the moderators apologised, including in this thread. So what I said that both are peas from the same pod might be inaccurate - it’s a matter of scale.
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It’s funny that, when I created a list of .ml alternatives, some entitled prick was lying/assuming/bullshitting that I was trying to kill LW - since I didn’t list any LW comm. If the prick said the same now it would be true. [Still blocked because I got no time for assumers.]
I find it very good that this community is becoming the de-facto central point to ensure mods are kept in check and that such comments can be made and found.
Ditto; I don’t know if you planned this role for the comm, but it feels like a natural evolution - from complaining about mod abuse to acting against it.
I love me some emergent order.
dont we all and thats why we love you =)
Thank you - I’ll add those to the list!
They are not peas from the same pod though: Lemmy.world mods have already apologized, made some changes to the rules to clarify their points (apparently? I haven’t tracked them down yet), and resolved to do better.
Among other places, here: https://lemmy.world/comment/13815531.
In contrast, Lemmy.ml admins have only ever doubled down on their decisions, afaict.
They overlap ever so slightly, yet are worlds apart, imho. Still, it’s so good to have options bc if someone doesn’t want to be in a particular community, it’s great to have the option to jump and be elsewhere. That said, I appreciate many things that Lemmy.World offers to us: especially !tenforward@lemmy.world for funsies, but moreover entirely free access to the best parts of the Fediverse, as well as volunteer, unpaid devotion to moderate communities hosted there. Beggers cannot be choosers, but also, these mods are not billionaires - they are regular people just trying to improve things in their corner of the world, as best as they see fit. Which if we don’t like, we’ll need to step up and help out ourselves to aid and create new communities to replace those on that instance. That’s my 2¢ anyway:-D.
I’ll edit the comment addressing it, since not doubling down is a thumbs up in my book.
So are you saying that in those communities celebrating murder is encouraged or what?
I’m saying that those communities are not in an instance where the admins enforce hidden rules, unlike .world and .ml. At least, not as far as I know.
Is this clear now?
For world@quokk.au, you’re free to celebrate good news such as a CEO getting an early retirement package.
But say like if you celebrated an activist or leftist dying etc, it would be frowned upon and assessed on a case-by-case basis.
It’s a ban fest!
Glad I got in an “eat shit, mod” before I was banned.
I’m wearing my ban with pride. Fuck those bootlickers.
My removed comments keep getting upvotes.
Streisand has entered the chat and she is not happy.
I wonder what the mods would have done in 1947.
I’m not sure how any of this works but I can still read deleted comments and comments from banned users. Maybe only on certain instances? Like I said I don’t know how this works.
Banned users don’t necessarily have their comments removed. Removed comments are what you can’t read. (You can if you view the modlogs or use certain scripts or addons and such - maybe some instances or apps do that)
Only my comments about just desserts and dinner for the rest of us - eating the rich (celebrating violence) were removed.
They also got me banned.
Sync for Android puts a 🚫 next to deleted comments but I still see them or else it says “deleted by creator.”
Heh, I got a good chuckle at that comment removal. So glad I moved from there to db0.
I want to say that this is a case where it’s not clearly either a PTB or a YDI situation. The mods seem to be enforcing their comm/instance rules, albeit their rules in this instance seem over the top.
I wonder what kind of acronym would fit this description. If anyone has any ideas, let me know.
TBD - Tyranny By Design
I’d say PTB but I guess TBD will do.
Who does it benefit to have instance rules like this? On LW you are not allowed to promote or celebrate any form of violence, so no matter how oppresive the state is, and no matter who the object of violence is (rapist, murderer, genocider, Nazi). The LW view seems to be that it would be uncivil to resist your own systematic exploitation and oppression in this way, and that it is always wrong to promote violence, even agaist literal Nazis. I’ve noticed most of the liberal instances have a similar policy. With a soft liberal underbelly like that, I dread to think what sort of milquetoast resistance to fascism the US population will be able to muster over the next few years.
Hah, catchy!
Can we please not turn this place into acronym soup like Reddit was in places?
You don’t even save that much time.
Power tripping bastard
You did it yourself
You save quite some time
That time being spent searching through the comments trying to decipher the acronyms.
They are in the sidebar, if people come here even once in a while they’ll know them.
Well, if you’re searching comments instead of reading the sidebar that’s always available, then you deserve to spend hours doing it.
Good Lord most of those don’t even come close to being against the rules of that community.
No, but they hit close to the personal opinion of someone who enforces the rules :/
That’s always what it seems to be.
meanwhile on bluesky, there seems to be a celebration
Lemmy handling of this event is a bad look imho.
We got out of touch mods 🙄
Lemmy.world’s handling of this is a bad look. They don’t represent Lemmy as a whole no matter how much they want to.
You are correct.
.world is at the core of the people’s grievances here.
Tone deaf…
Even on my side of TikTok, there’s a celebration.
The bans seem to be lifted.
yes i only banned for 24 hours so that more information could be found additionally there were directions that people encouraging, cheering, making joke of, discussing payment, or of jury nullification are against the terms of service for lemmy.world. as of now there is new information regarding this section of the terms of service which will be announced and explained by the admins. i am sorry to those that feel i was excessive we have discuss this among the moderators and will use the lock power to reduce the moderator workflow. for me i consider human life sacred and despite the mistakes of this person only God may judge us. i recognize my bias in this and will work to be more restrained going forward.
You should stop being a mod. For so many reasons.
Agreed, this is insanely concerning.
What in the world? Discussing jury nullification is against the terms of service of lemmy.world? I’m so glad I decided to skip getting an account there. SMDH
Makes you wonder who is behind that server now
Now or always? That server always seemed a bit out of wack for a variety of resaons since I first learned about it in my early days on Lemmy after the Reddit exodus. My initial impression has been repeatedly reinforced and I keep wondering why it’s the largest instance. I guess for the same reason that MacDonalds is (one of?) the most popular restaurant chains in the world?
only God may judge us
I’m judging you right now, for your inability to keep your religion to yourself.
only God may judge us
If you’re referring to Yahweh, per the bible he’s a far more judgmental asshole than your average social media user.
יהוה
aka, YHWY isn’t even his original name. He was a Canaanite god of War and Death. Those were the entirety of his divine portfolio. That particular “God’s” original name is EL.
for me i consider human life sacred and despite the mistakes of this person only God may judge us.
Lmao I don’t know which god you’re referring to, but pretty sure based on the lore available they don’t give a fuck about human life
How does it feel sucking corporate, and status quo, cock for free?
BTW: יהוה, aka YHYW, aka Yahweh’s original name is EL. He’s a Canaanite god of War and Death. I’m pretty sure that this follower of Iehova, same god different name, would be pardoned by his “God.”
Edit: in case you missed it, the letter “I” was the Latin language character for “J” until the 4th or 5th century.
I will be finding a new instance that actually encourages discussion, going forward since this instance is run by censors that do not like free speech
Edit 2: in case you also missed it another group changed EL’s name to Allah, and a further group than that one declared that ELhovallah has said that science is more real than any “divine doctrine.”
Fuck you, and fuck my god. He created entire communities that I probably should be chastising because most American Baha’i’s are the “moderate white people” that MLK Jr. talked about so eloquently. They will say all the right things, but I have seen too often that they are merely talking. The saddest part is that because most of these people aren’t white people, so when they get off their asses and do something, it’s generally successful.
Sorry for the big off-topic. I just can’t help when it comes to etymology.
Edit: in case you missed it, the letter “I” was the Latin language character for “J” until the 4th or 5th century.
What changed around the 4th~5th centuries were sounds, not letters - the Latin words using the sound [j] (as in yes) were being pronounced with [d͡ʒ] (as in jazz). Even everyday words like iocus (game) or iam (already).
But people kept spelling them the same - you’d use “I” for [i ɪ j ʒ dʒ] (as in beet, bit, genre, jazz), and let context tell them apart. For any language using the Latin alphabet, not just Latin herself, as shown by Shakespeare:
The iniury of many a blasting houre; Let it not tell your Iudgement I am old,
At most you’d flourish some “I” with a downwards curve, for easier reading; such as when you got 2+ “I” in a row. This mostly affects numbers (like XIII being spelled “xiij”), but also a few words like Old Spanish “fiio”=“fijo” (“son”; modern Spanish “hijo”).
Edit 2: in case you also missed it another group changed EL’s name to Allah
It’s more like both sides changed it. Without going too much into detail:
- the proto-Semitic word was around *ʔil or so
- the Biblical Hebrew pronunciation of ⟨אל⟩ was probably [ʔil] too, even if Tiberian Hebrew would read the word as [ʔe:l] “El” instead.
- Arabic “Allah” is most likely a contracted expression of [aɫiɫɫa:h]; [aɫ] is the article and the [aːh] a vocative. The underlying root is [ʔil]~[ʔill], spelled ⟨إِلّ⟩~⟨إِل⟩.
Well done on being both pedantic and informative. Yes you’re absolutely correct on both points, I didn’t feel the need to get that far into the weeds trying to explain that my own personal beliefs are tied into all of that historical pedantry. I just wanted to illustrate that such assholery is entirely possible by following the earlier ideas.
Sorry for my burst of pedantry. I couldn’t help it, I love to dig through the origin of the words.
…for a reason that is actually related to your Baháʼí faith: it shows that humans - those in the past, us in the present, and probably the ones in the future - are still the same. You see the same processes working on those words in the past as they do now.
[I agree with your main point. And I’m aware that what I said is unrelated to it, it’s only marginally related to the example.]
BTW: יהוה, aka YHYW, aka Yahweh’s original name is EL. He’s a Canaanite god of War and Death.
The word “EL” was just a label, like the word “god” itself (which literally means “creator”), and not a name. It meant “mighty one” or “strong one”.
For example, phrases translated as “God Almighty” is El Shad-dai.
When angels are referred to as the “sons of God” the original Hebrew is beneh’ ha-Elo-him.
Elo-him is also used to refer to other gods, and even human judges in Israel.
There are many more examples of the etymology, but “EL” is not always referring to the God referred to by the tetragrammaton. And it never refers to the Hebrew/Christian God in it’s singular isolated form. It always has a qualifier, like “God Almighty” (El Shad-dai).
The main difference being that the other Canaanite gods didn’t all have the EL prefix, in fact, he was the only one that had that prefix, and denominated him as the specific god of Death and War.
You can attempt to claim that isn’t true, many biblical and judeaic scholars have attempted to claim the same thing. The archeological evidence doesn’t support your claim
That doesn’t change linguistics. As I mentioned, there are examples in the Bible of other things, including humans, that were referred to as El.
Another example is Ba’al. Ba’al was both a generic word for pagan gods as well as one specific god. But that doesn’t mean so the various pagan gods were the same.
You also missed my point about the qualifier. The fact that the Canaanite god of death and war had no qualifier denotes a difference. The Hebrew/Christian God whose name is given as Jehovah in many translation, always has a qualifier with the word EL. Specifically qualifies like “God Almighty”, Most High (el’yohn), and never appears in isolated form except when referring to others.
The word EL even makes up many biblical names like Dani’el (God is my judge), El’isha (God is salvation), and Micha’el (Who is like God?).
The fact that there was a Canaanite god whose name was just “god” means and proves nothing, other than if there ever was a name attributed to that god it was lost to time.
El means “the” as far as I know. As he is “the one” and it is not part of the name, it is the title, basically it is not “a(ny) god” its “the god”. At least it was explained so to me from my bro, who “speaks” the old Hebrew. But I don’t know why it is the discussion here. Isn’t there better places to discuss etymology where there are people who speak the language?
As far as I am aware, EL didn’t mean “the” in Canaanite society or language. That happened later with the other tribes of the Canaanites forming completely different civilizations.
You are perfect… For Reddit. Go back there.
I was with you until you mentioned that god thing.
You’re spineless
What mistakes? Those were all intentional outcomes.
only God may judge us
And you, apparently.
Nah I judge you hard, you’re a garbage excuse for a human.
only God may judge us
Maybe stop using ancient, inconsistent collections of fairy tales and psuedo history to inform your world view.
Grow up lol.
Jury nullification is a legal right any jurist in the US has, which is why liberals hate it.
i am not from the united states and there are countries with laws differant from the united states I was asked to remove these things for this reason
So let me get you to repeat that so I know you didn’t misspeak. The admins of Lemmy.world instructed you to remove posts educating people about their rights in the country they live in? Can you tag them so we can discuss those admins here?
they are making an announcement on this topic to make the reasoning more clear
i apologize for misunderstanding and the correct action would have to lock the post until we all understood what to do
as of now all who were community banned by me are no longer banned
Hmmm… Do Gaza residents count, how about American payers of health insurance?
Hmmm
yes? i would remove comments and posts celebrating the death of those people i pray for them as i pray for you and the family of the murdered person you celebrate
I don’t know if temporarily muting those accounts was the right call or not - I did not even look at the pictures of the modlog here much less elsewhere - but entirely separately from that I wanted to say thank you for offering your explanation here. Whatever you end up deciding, your willingness to be introspective is already a powerful thing.
thank you
i was asked to moderate anything that is illegal specifically mentioning “jury nullification” and “financially supporting” this has been changed now until a larger announcement is made
many admins and moderators at .world including myself are not american, i pray that the others who are angry at me and hope they consider there are more countries with laws that are different from them.
Jury nullification is one of democracies’ systems of checks and balances that protects against injustice. It’s also not illegal in the US to talk about as a topic for the general population.
Banning discussion about it is like banning people from talking about voting or civil disobedience. Banning discussion of it is a disservice to the public good.
That’s the thing - if someone wants to go to all the trouble to step up and expend actual effort to create an instance, or aid by moderating a community, or even make posts to existing ones, then such a person imho has more of a right to speak up than merely a lurker. Otherwise, it’s just whinging, and the people may even have had to do the same if they were in your shoes, following the directives that you were given, regardless of their personal beliefs.
So again I haven’t studied the issue enough to know whether it was the right call or not, either by the admins or by you, but I hope as you make that determination in your head that you aren’t unduly influenced by people who choose to see only what they view as the extreme negative (as in result) without bothering to look at or acknowledge all the positives that you do as well. Making a judgement is hard work!
Please keep in mind that many people, perhaps out of fear of retaliation (if only by downvoting) may not take the time to express any positive sentiments about this (or, as I am considering doing, may take a break from social media a bit bc all of this news, in every single community it seems, is getting to be a bit much). Thus before I go on that break for a few days, I wanted to express my support for at least trying to help and be there for your community - even if you ultimately feel that it was the wrong call (and I’m not even so much as hinting here that it may have been - I truly don’t know nor at this point even care), you did at least try and I wish more people would see that. After some cooling off, I think some will. And for those who choose to remain perpetual entitled children, dependent upon others to do all their work for them (in this case I mean moderation EFFORTS to keep a community going and livable), who even cares what they think.
I dunno about the actions you took here, but I do at least support the efforts you go to on a daily basis to support keeping your community alive and functional.
if someone wants to go to all the trouble to step up and expend actual effort to create an instance, or aid by moderating a community, or even make posts to existing ones, then such a person imho has more of a right to speak up than merely a lurker
Are you justifying power tripping?
Not at all. Though she merely did as the instance admins instructed her? (mostly) And they seemed to be worried about police knocking down their door, as laws vary from country to country.
Her part was, as she said in her own words, to have removed the comments and banned people (no matter that they were extremely short-term, are already rescinded, and no more will be forthcoming for some of these issues), when she should have locked the post with a statement that the admins were issuing a moratorium on discussions of the topic for 24 hours and/or when they can get the ToS modified to provide transparency and consistency in what their want to see done. It’s their instance - they can do as they please. But her part in this seems only a small one, it’s the admins - who I haven’t heard anything from yet - who seem the real issuers of these edicts?
And as for myself, I am seeking a more nuanced and subtle form of argumentation beyond simply “my side always right, their side poopy buttface”. Though I do have sympathy for those who may have been affected by the underlying healthcare issues, and yet it seems like a proper diagnosis with full acknowledgement of all not just some of the factors involved that would serve us all best as we move forward here?
And I meant what I said at the end:
I dunno about the actions you took here, but I do at least support the efforts you go to on a daily basis to support keeping your community alive and functional.
There may be bad parts about all of this here, but in retrospect it will become easier to see how well this conflict ended up being resolved - the transparency that I’m seeing here gives me strong hope. Like, where are the admins here in this thread, explaining their actions? If it’s here I haven’t seen it yet, but this mod came forth immediately and owned up to what she did, her explanation as to why, and even exposing her underlying reasoning process - she didn’t have to do any of that?! And she’s taking a LOT of flak for it too, especially her belief structures. Maybe we’ll find out that the admins are being PTBs here, but that’s not the vibe I get from this mod in particular, who seemed only trying to be friendly to everyone, and again, already having admitted her mistakes (in removing+banning rather than locking with explanation).
So, what am I missing here, about this mod in particular I mean? (The admins I don’t have sufficient information about to even make a guess.)
I’ll reply to you later, had too many drinks at this very moment ha ha
TOS you say?