• @[email protected]
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    22 hours ago

    Petition to restart [email protected], by the way.

    Every time I make the mistake of visiting that sub, I want to smack the mod who locked it. I don’t even know if his grievances were legit, but clearly the only people he’s hurting are the folks who would like to post to the sub.

    Edit: Are .world Admins aware? Do they have a position on the situation? Do they give a crap? Anyone know?

    • kersploosh
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      4522 hours ago

      We’re aware. AFAIK, nobody has expressed interest in taking over that community and bringing it back to life.

      @[email protected] would you like to volunteer?

      • TheTechnician27
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        5922 hours ago

        It’s funny you should ask that; I was just about to reach out to ruud over Matrix and have been thinking about it for a couple weeks. I’d love to if that’s alright with the admin team.

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        622 hours ago

        I would also be willing to help if needed. I believe in a mostly hands off moderation style – allowing the votes to serve as the voice of the community. Common sense exceptions exist, obviously.

    • @[email protected]
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      522 hours ago

      Here’s the beautiful thing about Lemmy and the Fediverse as the whole: Anyone could be a pioneer and create another leopardatemyface community–even in another instance different from lemmy.world. I saw the mod’s explanation of locking this community and I think it’s a legitimate reason cuz many of us running away from Reddit at least wants something different from the userbase and moderating culture there and .world instance failed to provide it.

      Also, I think the .world Admins are aware, and that they have a position on the situation, and most likely they don’t give a crap. That’s why like I said, any dissenting users could create yet another similar community and try to lure others in to subscribe to it.

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        619 hours ago

        most likely they don’t give a crap.

        We do, a little. But we also can’t manually curate the entire instance. For things like this, it really helps if someone comes and talks to us, especially if they’re willing to volunteer.

        I don’t think that was a legitimate reason to lock the sub. Often, when you disagree with someone, you can use words instead of mod/admin tools. And that mod created an obvious strawman to rage against. They wanted much heavier moderation than we typically do, and I don’t think we’re extremely light on moderation.

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      219 hours ago

      Not every problem needs to be solved with mod/admin tools. Absolutely nobody said rape was okay.

      “Rape is less severe than normal” is not such a dangerous opinion that mods/admins need to get involved. If you are offended and/or disagree, that’s what your words are for.

      I encourage mods to use words instead of mod tools whenever possible.

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