Maybe this is just a bad angle. Doesn’t look so bad in some other pics.

Damn is that actually what lemming teeth look like?

Mouth closed: cutest little critter

Opens mouth: 😳 wtf

Tbf this condition is shared by many humans as well, so we can add this to the list of excellent lemming metaphors

Nice. It’s amazing that I’m still slowly piecing together my reddit subscriptions on Lemmy almost 2 years later. There’s another classic one that I hadn’t yet found, thanks.

And remember, memes can be more salubrious than therapy 🫠

Damn I’ve been here this whole time and I’m still not subscribed to that community. Nice one!

It actually is true that it takes time to find your way around the fediverse. But that’s also kind of nice because it means there’s always cool new communities to find. A lot of my current favorite communities are ones I didn’t find until after being here for over a year.

I should take the time to make a list of some of the hidden gems and sticky it somewhere.

https://lemmy.world/post/24558150

Maybe edit this link into OP for context

I’m not going to do that, sorry. They are volunteer moderators of an extremely niche internet community based around posting random memes, and they locked the community and then unlocked it like a day later. There is nothing that I could possibly read that would make me view this situation as an “epic fuck-up” or something that people will even remember occurring years from now.

Take a step back, get off Lemmy and go do something fun IRL and then come back and post about it. That’s the kind of content we need, not all of this judgment and whinging about pedestrian drama.

I have absolutely no problem with Ada, she has a lot of experience moderating around LGBTQ issues and she seems to do a fine job.

But that doesn’t negate the fact that it was a difference of opinion between the community mods and the admin as to how the community should be moderated. There are certain communities on my server where I have removed comments and the mods have been upset about it and requested that I give them space to moderate their communities. It’s a gray area and requires compromise at times.

Meh, it may be fun for you, but I can guarantee it’s not fun for those moderators. It’s pretty discouraging when you put so much of your time into moderating a community and then it turns on you like that. They made a mistake, sure, but their intentions were for the good of the community at the end of the day. No need for people to be dicks about it.

Fair enough. I do appreciate your posting of content at times. However, not all content is good content. Quality trumps quantity.

Maybe it would be best to focus more time on non-meta topics, like sports communities, gaming communities, hobbyist communities, etc. I feel that the neverending discussions of what is going on with whatever Lemmy server or communities and what needs to be done about it become a self fulfilling prophecy. The more that people focus on it, the more they tend to disagree.

Sometimes users and mods and admins are going to have disagreements and get angry at each other. It doesn’t need to be linked all over Lemmy every time that happens. We already have plenty of options for servers, it’s best to allow instances to handle their disagreements internally/privately and we don’t need everyone else in the fediverse getting in on every bit of drama. If the admins and mods are truly that bad at their jobs, the users will speak with their actions by leaving the server and/or community.

MeanwhileOnGrad is indeed a community that has generated some drama, and our admins have had discussions about this. Our current consensus is that due to the draconian censorship on hexbear always and lemmy.ml sometimes, it’s important to have hard evidence of some of the crazy and violent things that those communities upvote and agree with. This provides an easy way for new users to see for themselves what they are getting into if they choose to interact with, or god forbid join, one of the tankie servers. Although some drama gets generated along with that, the alternative would be to leave the blatant lies and bad faith tactics unchecked, which would be a much bigger problem imo.

Ok. If you are sincere then I am sorry, but that only means that you should majorly re-evaluate your behavior and try to honestly analyze if you are having the positive impact you claim to desire for Lemmy.

If you truly have an interest in improving the fediverse and making it a better place with better communities and a more diverse group of users, then you should be able to recognize that I am on your side, despite your personal dislike of me. I know that I come off as condescending and arrogant at times, but that’s because I deeply care about making this platform succeed, and it can be immensely frustrating when those who claim to support and believe in the platform seem to be acting counterproductively and worsening the climate on Lemmy by fanning the flames of petty drama and constantly calling for communities to split apart, servers to defederate, users to be banned, etc.

Yeah, it took me a long time to realize because that user is extremely careful to always be superficially polite and always framing their actions as trying to help the fediverse, but I’m beginning to recognize that they’re basically an energy vampire that just drags down the vibe of Lemmy with constant but what about or I don’t fully agree replies.

They seem to make every discussion way more complicated and contentious than it needs to be. What is the point of constantly linking and posting about every single time that anybody has a disagreement on Lemmy? They would nominally say they do it to expose mod abuse or whatever, but it’s typically fairly innocuous incidents that get blown way out of proportion. Mods aren’t ever going to be perfect, and constantly putting them and also random users on blast is extremely unproductive, because you get a whole bunch of commenters who don’t understand any of the nuance of the situation and inevitably get their pitchforks out, causing way more frustration and anger than the original situation would have caused otherwise.

They also never upvote anybody who replies to them, even when they occasionally claim to agree, which is extremely rare in itself. Who does that? Like how do you use Lemmy that much but consistently refuse to upvote the other users who are taking time out of their day to have a discussion with you? They make using Lemmy seem boring and tedious, which is really quite a remarkable accomplishment considering how many other interesting personalities we have on here. And they always sound extremely insincere when they performatively congratulate or thank others, often opting for a one word Nice! or Thanks. Like I said, energy vampire. I could go on, but you get the message. I do not like this user and I am suspicious of their intentions.

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Sometimes, users make comments and posts that are tricky to moderate. In those situations, it appears the 196 mods wanted to be a bit more lenient, while the admin wanted to be a bit more strict in terms of removing that content. It’s not one specific thing, it seems like more of an accumulation of small decisions that built up and caused the mod team to make a rash decision.

Yeah, at the end of the day Lemmy is just a colloboration between the users, the mods, and the admins.

The admins do have the final say, but in order for users to use their instance in the first place and communities to grow there, they also have to follow the desires of the users and work with the moderators to a major extent. It’s just teamwork and being able to compromise on some things but stay true to your principles on other things.

This really shouldn’t have been as big a deal as it became, and I would blame that mostly on the mods, somewhat on the users, and maybe just a little bit on the admins for not discouraging the moderators from taking this action in the first place. Everyone could probably have done a little bit better, but it was mostly on the mods for making a bonehead decision without realizing the consequences. That being said, raking them over the coals in the aftermath doesn’t really accomplish anything other than letting people feel self-righteous.

It’s very easy to see from the outside and in retrospect, but when you’re making moderator decisions every single day, you tend to lose a bit of perspective. It can be frustrating especially if admins are interfering with a community that you dedicate so much time and effort to, and I like to think if everyone had walked a mile in those shoes before, they probably wouldn’t be acting so condescending right now.

It was just a difference of opinion in the way they wanted to moderate the community and how the admin wanted to moderate her server. And of course, the admin has the last word.

But this stuff happens all the time on Lemmy, the only unusual thing is they decided to take the nuclear option and lock the community. Then they realized their mistake and unlocked it. It is what it is. I just get annoyed at all the people who flock to this drama like flies to shit so they can pile on the mods. It’s super lame.

And then they unlocked the community. They fucked up and they apologized. Certain users really need to take a deep breath and stop writing essays on the topic calling for everyone’s heads. It’s giving off major Karen vibes, which belong as far away from c/196 as possible.

This is the internet, this is Lemmy, it’s really not that big of a deal. Laugh about the drama, make memes about it, but for the love of God please stop taking everything so seriously.

This comment isn’t directed towards you, but rather to a bunch of others I’ve seen from my cursory glance at a few threads, calling for everyone’s resignation and expressing their outrage. Like calm the fuck down, you’re embarrassing yourselves, and by extension the rest of us.

People seriously need to relax. Both the mods and the users. Just forget about it and continue shitposting in whatever community, it’s not even worth being upset about. Shit happens, nobody is perfect, and it’s fucking c/196, everyone should just calm the FUCK down!

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I’m perfectly calm, dude.

BlueSky apparently