I highly advise reading through the entirety of the multiple posts that they and Ada have made on the subject. You are missing a lot if you think that’s all that it is.
Mods always have a duty - to themselves yes but also to the admins of a place, and to their user base. These mods did not simply “make a mistake”, they told the users that they owned them, and they also told the admin who has previously granted them mod status in the first place after being the sole mod to go fly a kite, and then threw her under the bus, multiple times during the course of this. Oh, and they also failed their own responsibilities to themselves - first and foremost to actually check the modlog reports to keep that clean (those don’t cross federate, hence atm require logging onto a local account to read, which they collectively refused to do thus leaving those reports for multiple days at a time).
This is rare to see such an epic fuck-up. This might legit make mainstream media and define how people talk about Lemmy for years to come. So I know it’s a lot, but it might be worth your time?
I am not asking you to believe me - take a look, you’ll see it. This is far beyond normal.
Edit: kudos for trying to see the best in the situation and offer the mods the benefit of the doubt where possible, but also… when you read it, you’ll see why this is such a big deal.
I’m not going to do that, sorry. They are volunteer moderators of an extremely niche internet community based around posting random memes, and they locked the community and then unlocked it like a day later. There is nothing that I could possibly read that would make me view this situation as an “epic fuck-up” or something that people will even remember occurring years from now.
Take a step back, get off Lemmy and go do something fun IRL and then come back and post about it. That’s the kind of content we need, not all of this judgment and whinging about pedestrian drama.
I highly advise reading through the entirety of the multiple posts that they and Ada have made on the subject. You are missing a lot if you think that’s all that it is.
Mods always have a duty - to themselves yes but also to the admins of a place, and to their user base. These mods did not simply “make a mistake”, they told the users that they owned them, and they also told the admin who has previously granted them mod status in the first place after being the sole mod to go fly a kite, and then threw her under the bus, multiple times during the course of this. Oh, and they also failed their own responsibilities to themselves - first and foremost to actually check the modlog reports to keep that clean (those don’t cross federate, hence atm require logging onto a local account to read, which they collectively refused to do thus leaving those reports for multiple days at a time).
This is rare to see such an epic fuck-up. This might legit make mainstream media and define how people talk about Lemmy for years to come. So I know it’s a lot, but it might be worth your time?
I am not asking you to believe me - take a look, you’ll see it. This is far beyond normal.
Edit: kudos for trying to see the best in the situation and offer the mods the benefit of the doubt where possible, but also… when you read it, you’ll see why this is such a big deal.
I’m not going to do that, sorry. They are volunteer moderators of an extremely niche internet community based around posting random memes, and they locked the community and then unlocked it like a day later. There is nothing that I could possibly read that would make me view this situation as an “epic fuck-up” or something that people will even remember occurring years from now.
Take a step back, get off Lemmy and go do something fun IRL and then come back and post about it. That’s the kind of content we need, not all of this judgment and whinging about pedestrian drama.