I'm going to continue posting on dbzer0, personally. If it was just the matter of a mistake or a bad take, that would be one thing, but the admin's behavior clearly indicates an attitude of hostility in his behavior as an admin towards people he considers 'libs', which, likewise, appears to be a very broadly applied label.
The admin has every right to trim his community in such a fashion but that necessarily means that some people will not feel welcome. The Fediverse means an individual can choose communities on an instance where they feel welcome, or at least where they don't feel like the sword of Damocles is hanging above their head. For me, that's not Midwest.social at this point.
I agree with what the commenters are saying in that thread about it being a shame for a big community to lose activity, but with regards to the original issue and the other screenshot you linked to, it seems like an admin temperament issue rather than an isolated incident. It's hard to build a community when users have to be worried about an admin lashing out at them after a bad day, and I think trust needs to be earned back before I would want to contribute there again.
The key takeaway is that Picard_Maneuver, PugJesus, others and myself now try to post to
Lord Of The Rings Memes rather than the midwest.social version due to some powertripping on the admin.
You can have a look at other comments for details.
No, the key takeaway is that Picard_Maneuver, PugJesus, others and myself now try to post to
Lord Of The Rings Memes rather than the midwest.social version due to some powertripping on the admin.
You can have a look at other comments for details.
Noice! I can't see any of the posts except one from today, though now that I've subscribed at Discuss.Online others should be able to see it there too.
A....nd now there's 5 posts and 8 subscribers there from DO, wow it's growing quickly, keep up the excellent work!:-D
Except it looks like it won't ever retrieve the comments for them, boo:-(. e.g. I was going to respond to a comment by egrets@lemmy.world with how "no man can defeat me" for their #1 list item, but I cannot (with a DO account) b/c there are no comments federated from https://discuss.online/post/14197685.
Though at least posts are coming in, now that I've subscribed to it.
Oh wow thank you. I have definitely tried that before and it failed, but probably there are certain conditions that needed to have been met first, like perhaps the post must already be there and/or the community already have started federating. So this feature definitely would have fallen between the cracks of knowledge for me if you hadn't said so.:-)
If they are on board, it would be great if we could make the community migration semi-official.
From past experience, the most effective way to migrate users seems to be to lock the old community and leave a pinned post redirecting users to the new community.
A few of us recently consolidated the electric vehicles communities this way, and I know Blaze has had similar successes.
I dunno, it's like, the instance admin has the right to trim the instance in a manner that cultivates the community they want to see. I'm legitimately not looking to start drama. I just don't want to post on the midwest.social lotrmemes sub now. That's the great thing about the Fediverse, decentralization and such.
If they want to make the migration, not only is that cool, that is amazing and not only will I happily mod the other comm's mods, but step down from modding myself because honestly I mod too many communities as it is. But I'm not looking to make a case for abandoning the other lotrmemes sub, and I imagine most people will not have much interest in admin drama.
The admin of the midwest.social banned someone for what seems like a strange reason, behaviour which is usually qualified as "power tripping". People usually dislike that behaviour, and consider avoiding such instances, which is why PugJesus created the new community:
Lord Of The Rings Memes
Lord Of The Rings Memes