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!vegan@lemmy.world mod suppresses criticisms of fediverse spam campaign, using mass ban technique to silence opposing viewpoints (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by wesker@lemmy.sdf.org to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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Will it be effective?

Spoiler

No, it was not very effective.

EDIT: The banning event continues. Please consult the modlog to observe.

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&modId=7121342

If you scroll down to about a day ago, you might be able to observe an emerging behavior from this mod.

EDIT 2: The mod in question moderates a total of 108 Lemmy communities. How deep does this conspiracy run? Is this mod a lost Redditor? More to come!

EDIT 3: The mod has now removed my comment all together, one might assume because it was still receiving upvotes in the 2 hours following my ban. Are there similarities here to Watergate? You be the judge!

EDIT 4: The mod in question has now been removed as a mod of the !vegan@lemmy.world community, as a result of their abuse of power.

https://lemmy.world/post/19731457

This was their response:

EDIT 5: This will be my final update, since as far as I see it, the issue this thread focuses on has been resolved. To quote Beaver herself in a very ironic comment she made directed towards someone else:

Clearly this was all just a case of...

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[-] zloubida@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I'm not vegan, but honestly I can understand. As soon as you have an opinion which is not the one of the majority, your posts, even in thematic spaces, are heavily downvoted, and it's tiring. I'm not conservative, I disagree with the posts in c/conservative, buy why would I downvote the things they publish there? A lot of Lemmy members do, however. Same with c/vegan or the religious communities.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

The Fediverse seems a lot "bubblier" than Reddit, with people quicker to hit the downvote button for views that intrude. I've lost a lot of drive to engage here, I find myself often dropping a comment into a discussion and then never looking back at it. Unfortunate, but I suppose not too surprising when communities are smaller.

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[-] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

Justified ban imo. You weren't there to discuss veganism as a vegan, you were there for drama. It's not spam when they make a lot of posts to their own community. Unless the content is hateful, the correct response is to block.

[-] DarkThoughts@fedia.io 8 points 2 months ago

It's not spam when they make a lot of posts to their own community.

I disagree. I see this often from lemmynsfw or various meme communities where some users tend to just dump 5-10 or even more threads. Neither Lemmy nor mbin really uses algorithms to prevent communities from showing up more than once, so you'll always get the full load of those submissions spammed into your feed.

And no, blocking the entire community is not a valid solution when you do not inherently disagree with it.

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[-] Resonosity@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

It's "vegans" like this that make the entire movement look bad. They need to be removed as a mod. The movement needs to be honest by letting free and equal exchange of ideas and viewpoints

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

The heck is going on?

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Dunno. Trouble at the mill.

[-] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Ahhh no wonder I didn’t see this. I already had Beaver blocked.

[-] kux@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago

this vegan drama is dumb as shit

the top three vegan communities by users are hexbear, .ml, .world

hexbear has news, opinions, questions from a vegan pov

.ml has similar

.world has a lot of shitty memes

if you are looking for a serious vegan comm go to hexbear or ml. if you are looking for shitty memes go to .world

if you are not a vegan and just want to lolpost 'but bacon is delicious' keep it to your fucking self

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