Recent events over at lemmy.world have got me thinking, and I wanted to see what the community here are reddthat.com thinks.
Most details are available at the lw admin team’s latest post. TLDR A discussion about whether a vegan cat diet was viable started at c/vegan. An admin banned some comments and removed a moderator of the community. LW updated their TOS with a section about misinformation. The admin actions were reversed.
(Probably, I am misrepresenting the situation, read the link before taking up arms)
While, I prefer to enter my own opinions in a comment, I would like to add some questions to frame the discussion:
- What do you the new section about misinformatiom? Do you think reddthat needs one?
- What do you think about how the situation was handled by the LW admin team?
- Given that LW is the biggest lemmy instance, how do you think these changes will influence smaller instances like reddthat?
- Do you have any other take aways from this? Or any other questions?
- (bonus) Isn’t it hilarious that lemmy has its own tea (=gen z for drama)?
We have already seen a few smaller instances move away from lemmy.world and that is good for diversity in the Fediverse.
As for the action of the particular admin, I do think the action of demodding the user was the wrong step. As the admin post said, the topic is controversial so I am not going to touch it.
Ideally, an instance admin shouldn’t be commenting with an admin account. A seperation of admin and daily user account should exist but I realise that it may be cumbersome.