No, no, no. You don’t understand. That’s how you make friends. You kill anyone who disagrees with you and implicitly threaten everyone else with extreme violence. Isn’t that how everyone makes friends?

I haven’t been on lemmy for all that long, but this thread is the first I’ve ever seen anyone complain about moderation.

I dunno, man. I’m pretty new to the whole fediverse stuff. I just learned about modlogs from this thread here, so obviously what I say is not super well-informed on the topic. But looking at the modlog someone linked below, most of the stuff I’m seeing removed are actually the exact opposite. I see comments removed because they’re calling other people tankies. I’m seeing stuff removed because it’s “horseshoe theoretisizing, bad-faith”. Then a bunch of people indirectly advocating violence.

I’ve never been a mod of anything, and a lot of this looks like stuff that if it were up to me I’d leave. But I don’t really see any evidence that .world “has an overwhelmingly “US Democratic Party” slant, politically”. As far as there is any ideological basis behind the mod actions, it seems to be more unaligned leftist than anything else.

Again, though, I’m very new to this and did not do anything close to what I would describe as a thorough search.

Wow! Yikes! Does certainly seem like the mods like to remove and ban people a lot. A lot of what I’m seeing on there is for comments that while I don’t personally agree, don’t really seem like they should be removed. I’m not trying to make a judgement about their personal politics, but they are certainly making their own subjective decisions about a lot of things that should really be left to the wider community…

Where do you go to see the modlogs?

How does one go about figuring out this information? I’ve seen no evidence of censorship, but I also don’t really know what it would look like. I do I learn an instance has been defederated.

As a side note, we need to come up with a MUCH more simplified way to teach people about the fediverse if we’re ever going to get a large enough userbase. This shit is very complicated and confusing compared to more mainstream social media.

There were 100k+ in DC alone.

Can you explain this to me in very simple terms? What’s the problem with .world? When I signed up I was told it was just the most broad, sort of “default” instance. What’s wrong with it? Is there one with a larger user base I should be on instead?

What if I use the term ‘tankie’ unironically to refer to people to the right of me?

That’s the thing, though, in western literary culture an archetypal journey story is the Odyssey. The Odyssey is just so old and was so important in Hellenic culture (which became the basis for most of Western culture) that all journey stories after The Odyssey were heavily influenced by it in one way or another.