maegul, 1 year ago

So I got curious and did a little digging (and from what I’ve seen this comment/post may be removed by the mod?).

From what I can tell this comment is most of the story: lemmy.world/comment/6413246

And it has lead to the creation of this community (lemmy.world/c/tenforward) … on which see this welcome message (lemmy.world/post/10461985) from @Stamets who used to be a regular poster here and is the author of comment above.

TLDR: some don’t like the moderation here, which is done by a single mod, and have gone and made their own community over on lemmy.world.

If this drama was real and the instance admins knew about it, I think I’d be happy to conclude that the instance admins did a bad job here given their status as a star trek instance. If there was a split amongst Risa people and its mod, then create another community (with TenForward being a great name for it) with a different moderator and let them co-exist as part of the same federation.

Now there’s probably some unnecessary fracturing (which is fine, that’s what the fediverse is all about in the end) … and I can’t help but wonder if the admins here are maybe a tad too much used to a reddit culture of allowing mods and admins get away with things … which is of course me being rather quick to judge, I can only speculate here clearly, but still … kinda funny to see.