This unfolded on “United States | News & Politics@midwest.social”. Owner ‘seahorse’ showing the kind of person they are.
This is not how you run a server.
Edit: link to comment:
Confirmed its real, and now I am blocking that instance. Thanks for the info. There is enough content on lemmy, a few instances can be excluded.
Added a link to the comment in my post. Thanks for reminding me!
Yeah it’s definitely real, I came across it in my feed before seeing this post. Guy seems like a real arsehole.
Welp, just in case I just made !theonion@sh.itjust.works
o7
But it is.
Lemmy isn’t set up to create a set of fairly moderated communities with buy-in from users. It is set up so anyone can be a dictator on their own server.
Yup. But thankfully, it’s also set up so they can quickly become dictators of their own little desert island.
Users can still quickly leave until they found a fair admin
A fair admin for now.
And when the fair become unfair then we move onto the next, as it should be!
I feel like relying on benevolent dictators only to run communities isn’t the best option.
That seems fairly un-hobbity, with all respect.
At some point one instance is going to have democratically elected mods and admins, that would be interesting.
In the meantime yeah, we are still using other people’s servers
That’s the beautiful thing about lemmy. If I don’t like the current dictator, I can easily switch to a more benevolent leader.
Sorry to hear, I love the Lotr memes community
Never too late to make your own. Especially if enough people decide this is worth blocking the instance entirely.
Thank god we’re doing things on more than world
Yep, that’s mainly why I hopped to it so fast.
Tell me about it
Indeed, but I have enough communities under my belt to be honest 😅
Fair enough. The Onion community had pretty little traffic to begin with so I think I’ll be fine.
yeah i have my problems with midwest. i think a succinct way to put it is that instance does not appreciate the federation process.
“Can’t even downvote in Ohio”
For those who don’t know what this means, but want to, you can read https://www.distractify.com/p/what-does-ohio-mean-slang and https://www.distractify.com/p/only-in-ohio-tiktok-meme.
TLDR it’s a phrase that people use now similar to “Florida man”.
I’ve never blocked an instance.
If I block an instance, that blocks all users too, right?
Nope
I remember there was a far right mastodon server
Yeah, Truth Social lol
I remember it was smth else
Oh
Is there more context? Was it affiliated with the Lemmy instance?
nah but i remember i was looking at the mastodon blacklisted list
So how do i block an instance?
Settings, last tab iirc
…so was this about his take on the Gaza war? That he thought support for Palestine would lead to a loss of democracy?
No they’re saying that’s what people criticizing the protestors are arguing. I think their take is perfectly acceptable but the power tripping is pretty rough
Yeah, I’d have to look into the context but their edit kinda sours it no matter what.
What does “spits their dummy out” man in this context? Is it just “says dumb shit”?
It’s like a baby throwing a little tantrum, essentially.
Damn it. Don’t wanna lose our !theonion@midwest.social community
Well, if we do…
