Admin comments on lemm.ee: https://lemm.ee/post/55846636/18367529
tl;dr for lemm.ee:
In short, somebody posted a pro-Elon-Musk-doing-a-nazi-salute Valentine’s Day meme and the mods left it up so people started complaining in other communities and the admins realized “you know, we never see reports from our instance’s most controversial community” because the mods were quick to act leaving everything up. So the original salute poster was banned and all the mods were dethroned as the admins are taking a wait-and-see approach on what to do with the community.
I haven’t found a comment about what happened at .world yet but there are zero mods for their community too.
Power tripping mods getting their comeuppance!
Regarding the .world community: The mods were not actively tending the community. Reports were piling up and not being resolved. Messages were sent to the mods requesting them to reengage, but nothing changed. So the mods were removed while the .world team looks for possible replacements.
The mods at !conservative@sh.itjust.works also look like they have left Lemmy.
If anyone seriously feels like moderating a conservative community (without burning it to the ground for teh lulz) there are plenty of job openings.
I’d be interested in moderating it to allow a differing option while removing gross misinformation.
With modern conservatives being pro-misinformation, that’d be a tall order.
However, seeing “SatansMaggotyCumFart” in conservative modlog does have a Federated republic kinda vibe.
“WhO GeTs To dEcIdE tHe TrUtH!?”
“…I get your point, but the moon most emphatically is not made of cheese regardless of what Sean Hannity insists.”
You obviously haven’t seen that one documentary with Wallace and Gromit
Tide comes out, tide goes in.
You can’t explain that.
Fucking magnets.
You’re a better person than me. It would be nice to have a spot where people are allowed to pierce the right wing internet bubble without bans, but that will probably drive away the actual
reactionariesconservatives.It would mostly be keeping conversations civil while removing LGBT fearmongering I don’t see it being that hard.
*record scratch*
I am with you… There is this assumption that all of these people are a certain way but that’s very polarized view in its own right…
Great a space that welcoming of that discussion with moderation that doesn’t allow threat actors spreading psyop shit.
If we can coexist with tankies why can’t others join…
That’s gonna be tuff me man…
I try to engage with the right as much as possible but the brain rot has escalated to the point where we are living in two different Americas.
But somebody got to do this hard work.
I’m piqued.
We could make it a community service. “Oh you think you’re funny? Is either ban or 4 weeks of modding conservative comms”
That… Might actually work on some of us…
I was up for the job until that part in parenthesis
Same.
Wasn’t even aware we had one. It’s possible I blocked it aeons ago.
The problem is you would then become a target for everyone who just wants to be rude to a conservative regardless of whether that’s your actual point of view.