You know, I thought nothing about it for a second until I remembered a conversation I was in a couple days ago...and sure enough, there is Izzy in my inbox complaining about Sync having ads.

I had said something along the lines of their stance being a weird hill to die on, but it looks like die on it they did.

I would just like to chime in here as I helped Izzy mod c/sciencefiction for a couple months and left the mod team a couple weeks ago. I decided to leave that community mostly because I just wasn't that interested in the subject matter but also because I wasn't vibing with Izzy. I noticed a lot of their posts about Sync and yes, they were pretty relentless popping in many threads just to shit on the ad platform. It was a lot. I also noticed some, what I feel are toxic comments, in some posts about COVID and I ultimately decided I didn't want to involve myself with them any longer. Now I only know what Antik and Izzy have stated, there hasn't been any additional given in mod channels so I know as much as you all, but I believe there is more that Izzy was doing in private messages that led to their ban. They were polite to me in our personal conversations but I can see them taking it too far with the admins. Take that for what you will, just my opinion. But I thought I'd at least say something having been a mod in that community as well.

Pretty biased take. The guy WAS toxic, I had dealt with him before. He'd just jump on any comment concerning sync to get on his soapbox, regardless of whether it was relevant. The community's better off without that nonsense.

Was he as obnoxious with the sync rants as the admins said he was though? The way they said it seemed to me they were complaining about it everywhere. Although I’m not sure how that got admin attention. Maybe lots of users reported them?

I replied to you a bit lower here too and this will also be my last post about this because if you don't understand it now you never will and i will accept that.

Izzy came back from another account to say their goodbyes, as they no longer wish to be involved anyway. This post seems to have disappeared.

All Izzy's accounts are banned. And the reason they posted was not to say "that they didn't wish to be involved any longer" because that's a bit after-the-fact right. They wanted to cause more drama.

Then a bit later, admin came to SF to make a post looking for new mods. When people brought up the situation, they locked the thread.

I posted what we had to say and closed the thread immediately after. You are twisting the timeline of events to use it in your favor, pure sensationalism.

You seem to feel a certain way about the admins on this instance. You are a moderator and you would be welcome to interact with others in our moderator discord server and at least make an informed post but seemingly you prefer not to interact with the others and instead to make up your own version of things.

But to end this on a positive note, we had people reach out to become moderators on !sciencefiction@lemmy.world and we'll hook them up with eachother so they can get things going again.

The reason is him often complaining about there being ads in the Sync client for Lemmy.

bet there is a bit more to it than that..

Why not just use a different app or something. I use Memmy and there’s zero ads.

Damn. Makes me glad I main on a different instance altogether. Getting banned for complaining about ads? I'd have been gone the first week.

This sounds perfectly Reddit.

I thought we came to the Fediverse to escape this bullshit.

Hate to break it to you but ~~every site where~~ people ~~can talk to each other always~~ come~~s~~ with drama.

Fixed it.

Reddit basically started an internet orgy at their house and after the party had long been started declared that they're the only ones allowed to cum.

Seeing your name in the other community is what made me think to make a star wars même!

According to the one comment I read from some mod or admin on the sci-fi community, one of the mods was starkly against some feature and supposedly would derail the conversation with criticisms every time it came up. They were kicked for 1 day and allegedly threw a fit, demanding repercussions and apologies, and crossed a line in their appeals, so they were permanently banned.

Don't know everything though, this is literally just one second or third hand perspective.

Edit: whoops didn't realize someone else already described it haha. Take a look further down the thread (or higher depending on how you have it sorted)

Same shit, different day it seems