So I posted to !nottheonion@lemmy.world:
Seems like a pretty good fit. It was the number 2 post for the day.
However, it was removed for being "Not Onion-y". What the fuck?
For one, yes, it is onion-y. For two, looking over the posts that are up there now, stuff that is "not onion-y" is more or less the majority of what's in the posts. The new number two story which replaced the one of mine that was removed was “Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”, for example.
I wouldn't really care about the unreasonable removal of my article. Sometimes people just do bad moderation. Except:
- Someone had come into the comments under my "not onion-y" post to do an unusually incompetent attempt at claiming the Ukraine war was all NATO's fault, and was getting unanimously roasted for it. Almost all of the comments were just laughing at this one guy, reiterating that Russia is in fact at fault in the war, and talking about the problem of Russian propaganda on Lemmy.
- I have noticed before that almost every single one of the really bafflingly bad lemmy.world moderation decisions is in some way or other in service of propaganda.
Make of all of that what you will.
Edit: Made more concise
As I mentioned I am not into the nottheonion community/concept, so maybe I don't know what I am talking about, but intuitively (for me) your line of thought does seem a bit conspirational. No disrespect, just sharing what's coming to my mind.
Maybe the mods thought that Trump's behaviour is already a norm, so there is a lack of comedy so to speak?
Btw, it's not my intention to defend the mods, never been to that community and it's not really my cup of tea.
I personally prefer a low touch approach to moderation, but I would also never mod a political community outside of some very specific cases.
100%
It definitely feels farfetched, I can see that.