After being harassed in multiple discord channels by powermod FlyingSquid the news mod blackbeard has shuttered his account and moved to bluesky.

https://ibb.co/cY44MgF

https://lemmy.world/u/Blackbeard

"The recklessness with which people downvote polite disagreements reminds me of all the worst parts of Reddit, and it proves to me that this isn’t the social media savior I’d hoped it would be, and is instead just another echo chamber. I hope eventually lemmy.world (and the fediverse more broadly) can grow out of that, but some of the behavior I’ve seen on the inside from both mods and admins doesn’t really inspire much confidence for that kind of evolution in the short term. "

FlyingSquid is the same mod who has the power to siteban people from lemmy.world

Why does lemmy.world keep having issues with their powermods and admins? Why do powermods get the ability to siteban their enemies from the largest instance?

  • macniel@feddit.org
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    12 hours ago

    I agree with FlyingSquid here. That opinion that borders defamation, equating political runner with several people and even Hitler, is absolute report worthy.

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      12 hours ago

      Defamation is not against the rules and sounds like quite a bit of a stretch. No one on Lemmy is capable of defaming anyone even remotely that famous. It’s clearly an example of frivolous reporting.

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        5 hours ago

        Sure defamation is not against server rules. But it’s against the law of atlesst in USA and my home country which makes it very much against server rules.

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          54 minutes ago

          Again, defamation is a big stretch and the US laws don’t matter in Lemmy. .world is hosted in Europe.

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            34 minutes ago

            Did I only state US laws? No I didn’t. My home country would be Germany.

            Besides, do ai/web crawler understand that this piece of opinion was just an opinion and not take it as information?