• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    lemmy.world mods are also compromised. They’re just more subtle about it than lemmygrad et al.

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      7 months ago

      Do you have a source for this? Reddit’s mods on big or politically-or-commercially-relevant subs were very clearly compromised, but I hadn’t seen any indication of that on lemmy.world and I was kind of hoping that it would be a lot more resistant.

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        7 months ago

        Comments with blatant falsehoods? Cool. Comments calling out those falsehoods? Removed by mod, rule 3

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          7 months ago

          Do you have an example or two? I know the lemmy.ml mods are shit, that is not news to me, but I haven’t seen this happen on lemmy.world that I can remember.

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                  7 months ago

                  I don’t actually think so. I mean, I don’t agree with removing it as in my view it contributes positively to the discussion, but it’s definitely a repost. Removing it doesn’t seem obviously malicious to me.

                  Personally my feeling is that it’s probably just because of mods having to deal with a tidal wave of malicious crap on any given day and so developing a short fuse for anything that looks bad-adjacent. To me, the underlying issue is that you have to have mods in this sort of underappreciated volunteer / unelected dictator role, where those two roles don’t synergize well with each other, and neither one is really a balanced way of hitting the mark of what’s needed.

                  But it is technically true that my stuff was just a copypasta becoming a low-effort fixture on several posts, and I do think your posts getting personally insulting and specifically accusing some of the probably-shills of being Russian assets when you don’t really know, were a little out of line. IDK. Mostly I just think the whole model of “we have to have a person in the background deciding what statements are reasonable to be allowed and not” isn’t the right way to go about it.

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                    7 months ago

                    It’s not great, but it’s the only really effective model we have. AI just isn’t there, and opens up a whole new can of worms about the programming of said AI even if it were.

                    I think the issue is that the mods on .world are allowing their biases to affect their willingness to remove or ban something. There’s a lot more leniency for typically far-left viewpoints.