The idea of down votes and people using them to disagree is perfectly fine.

As you know, they are often not used in good faith. I’ve seen people use bots to mass downvote posts they don’t like, there are people who downvote everything coming from this instance as a default stance, or follow users around and downvote everything they post, etc.

This does influence how Lemmy displays posts here, so it can be a bit annoying. You could make a great post and have it immediately buried at the bottom because someone doesn’t like you, for example.

We’re happy to review this if people feel strongly about it though, it’s been a while since we last looked at it. Maybe make a post about it and see what others think.

No, it isn’t.

Hard to say, we’ll have to wait and see who gets it.

I personally think there’s no point for them to try and get it back, they’ll most likely come back under a different domain.

sav.com’s generic contact details are on the whois, not possible to know who bought it.

The only way they can get it back is by outbidding / winning the auction, which is set to end in ~9 days.

Apparently some old admin went afk and nobody else had access. So much for being a collective I guess.

Truly salt of the earth

They’re still poached though, all federation points to hexbear.net, domains are pretty central to Lemmy.

It will be interesting to see how they get out of this one.

This is true, definitely not a very happy thought.

As an aside, it looks like they have a back-up domain, the drama here is hilarious: https://chapo.chat/

Looks like they forgot to renew it, someone else snapped it up and now it’s up for auction. You could own hexbear I guess!

And they said romance was dead

That’s pretty wild. Alice tells me the mod team has changed recently, it sounds like the new mods are a different cut.

Hey, we do tolerate open and free discussion, certainly more than places like db0 do. You are allowed to have an opinion here and others are allowed to contradict you. As @Alice@hilariouschaos.com said, if it’s not breaking our TOS then it’s fine.

You and your community are welcome here, assuming it’s not particularly spammy.

Shit’s nuts

To shiten

I agree that it’s a difficult balancing act. Overall though, the role of a moderator is to facilitate conversation in accordance to the rules, not enforce their own narrative on the community. These steps are not perfect, but they are an attempt to try and get moderators to moderate more and dictate less.

I tend to agree, if there was a way to actually federate with Threads, I’d be curious to give it a go.

Motherfucker

I second this motion

I don’t think you did anything wrong, it’s just business and you only looked after your best interests. Your boss sounds like a great person, but the school is your actual employer. It’s nothing personal.