Just taking the opportunity to advertise [email protected] a little! It has a bit more focus than history memes and is hosted on lemmy.ca!
this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2025
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Lmao. This one is great, but they never show up in my feed. I can tell I found it 3 months ago, because I've liked a bunch of posts three months ago. Anyway, tons of gold since then!
tankies can't meme. Their memes are as funny as hemorrhoids and as deep as a puddle.
Hemorrhoids are pretty funny on them.
Subbed and doing my part.
A move to lemmy.world is not a good thing.
It's a lot better than ml
It was established 2 years ago, before the concerns for .world becoming so big started really cropping up
Plus, there's really nothing wrong with .world having some big comms, the real issue is them having the bulk of the big comms
Some people take exception to the overall moderation, although from what I had seen from that drama is that most people just didn't like FlyingSquid. Who hasn't been around for months, now.
The problem with FlyingSquid was that he would sometimes get upset arguing with people about politics, and there was a really loud contingent that was convinced that was the worst thing in the world and he was a power tripper who was going to break lemmy.world, and get all histrionic about it and make these weird accusations that never seemed to pan out to anything more than "he got in an argument."
The issue, to me, with lemmy.world is that there's a contingent of mods that like to make explicit safe spaces for propaganda (UniversalMonk), or just make baffling decisions that all of the users hate (UniversalMonk). The ones who are making most of the really terrible decisions aren't really well-known names like FlyingSquid or JordanLund or anything, they're just kind of behind the scenes poking at mod controls instead of commenting. I don't really know what they're up to now, but before the election they were spending significant effort actively making big communities on lemmy.world worse (like letting UniversalMonk bait people into arguments and then banning people he got in arguments with).
To me it's very notable that FlyingSquid actually did (in addition to whatever misdemeanors he committed) actually spend time trying to eliminate propaganda and dickheadedness from the communities he moderated, and I think it's interesting the overlap between that and the loud contingent of users demanding at all times that he be removed at all costs. A lot of the time if you look at one of his embittered arguments that's being used as evidence that he was the worst person in the world, he is arguing with someone who is being transphobic or conservative or otherwise just kind of a dickhead, and for some reason he would decide that the right reaction is to get in a heated argument with them. But it wasn't like someone would come in "I like raccoons" and he would say "WELL I LIKE LLAMAS SO FUCK YOU (BAN)," it was usually something pretty significant. Anyway, that loud contingent of users did have some success in creating a narrative that "I heard FlyingSquid is power tripping / terrible person / he's a big problem," which to me is sad.
I don't really trust the lemmy.world admin team, but I think most of the complaint about lemmy.world is that their big communities' moderation is on average very very bad. That doesn't really apply to small communities that are run by people passionate about the content that's in them.
That's my 2 cents on it.
FlyingSquid had a nasty tendency of getting into an argument, and then, when faced with any amount of pushback, threaten a ban if they continued arguing with him.
I'm not a saint myself - I'll be the first to admit that I don't really have the temperament for moderation, and I only moderate because of the dual issues of "Lemmy is young, and if I don't create these comms, they're not going to be created for a long time" and "Jesus fucking Christ why are there so many goddamn tankies and campists spreading genocide denial??", but that's exceptionally poor behavior from a mod.
Yes but that was (a) a very occasional outcome, like every few months in a career filled with pointless arguing (b) not the end of the world.
I'm much more irritated for example with the mods who decided UniversalMonk was a force for good in the universe, who must be protected at all costs, than I am with FlyingSquid for occasionally having a heated argument with some transphobic person and eventually threatening to ban them. Neither one is really ideal but I just don't get what the constant hue and cry about FlyingSquid as the problem with lemmy.world moderation was. Maybe his habit of getting in big arguments (which, again, isn't really ideal) sort of painted a target on his back when other people who were just quietly doing awful moderation behind the scenes stayed out of people's awareness.
I’m much more irritated for example with the mods who decided UniversalMonk was a force for good in the universe, who must be protected at all costs
Much like a delicate flower, I do need to be protected at all costs. Thanks for noticing, friend!
like letting UniversalMonk bait people into arguments and then banning people he got in arguments with).
You talk about me a lot. A lot. Although it's impressive that I'm in your head so much, I always forget about you until ya post about me.
Anyhoo, I just posted articles, I didn't bait anybody to do anything. If someone doesn't like me, they can always block me.
Thanks, friend!
In the long term, I would like to move to Mbin or Piefed. At the moment, the collapse of Lemm.ee has me spooked about admins not having the structural systems in place to sustain an instance long-term, so I've put those plans on hold. Whatever .world's other faults (and while the admin team is amateurish, it's also responsive to public outcry), it has a robust structure that's integrated with an even larger ecosystem (FediHost Foundation) for sustaining the instance.
its not because its like .ml, its because its holding most of the communities, which people dont want, like reddit 2.0