I DM’d db0 before posting this, but didn’t give them the substance of the post. Without knowing all that was going on, they approved me, but if after reading this they decide to remove it, I understand.

Hey, Fediverse.

I’ve been modding [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] and others for a while now. I’ve been the subject of many posts on this very community in fact. Usually, the people here agree with my decisions, and I appreciate all feedback, good or bad.

Well, as you know doubt know (and if you don’t, go through my comment history), I’ve tried my best to stay out of the whole “Lemmy.world admin/mod” thing going on.

I didn’t post anything other than facts, and I didn’t pick sides. This is because on a personal level, Staments and Jordan Lund are friends of mine. I have talked to them on multiple occasions about many things not fedi-related.

When the whole thing came out from the write-up Stamets did here, I followed it, but kept to myself. Friends shouldn’t pick favorites. I still won’t speak my mind on that topic.

I WILL, however, speak towards how the admins handled it.

They blatantly said that they didn’t like the behavior being pointed out to be the face of lemmy.world. They also took minimum action. For 2 weeks.

What became of that? After 2 weeks, the punted it to the moderation team. Me, and @[email protected] .

I can’t speak for Tenthrow, but I was given no notice of this decision. During the 2 weeks of silence, they messaged me a total of 1 time to remind me that as the top moderator of news, I had the power to remove Jordan from the moderation staff.

Now, let me say this: the whole time he moderated news, I only had a single complaint about his activity. I banned him for 2 days for that.

Back to the topic at hand. Fast forward to a couple days ago, and I get a few messages about an update in the lemmy world announcement community.

They had decided to remove top mod from Jordan on all communities without talking to the mods. They then said “The new top mods can now take appropriate actions”. This means that I became the top moderator of [email protected] with no notice (a failing on the platform, imo - why couldn’t they notify us when we are added as a mod?). I decided to demoderate Jordan in the communities we are in together, as I just am tired of all the drama. I hope he understands that.

Again, I had no reason to remove him from the mod team in my communities, but for them to pass the buck to me, without any kind of heads-up? That was too much. Us mods do a lot of shit. We take a TON of shit. We’re human, and we make mistakes. All we ask is that the admins keep their shit in their toilet, and off our plate.

This isn’t the first time the admin team has made…questionable decisions. A while back they told everybody that they were not allowing people to remove alternative views. This logically included some stupid shit like flat-earth views. They never changed that rule, but never touched on the topic again.

Because of this, I have decided that while Lemmy and the fediverse as a whole is a worthy experiment, I have reached the end of my time here.

I will say that the people on the admin staff and I are friendly, mostly. There’s the odd person that calls me some weird shit, but I’m a weird guy. Overall, I’ve had positive interactions with them, but they often forget that moderators deal with hundreds to thousands of reports a day (on some days, obviously), keeping the platform civil and clean for them, at no cost.

My final day will be 20 October, 2025. After that, I will leave the account active, but won’t be checking on it.

I wish everybody reading this (and those that haven’t) the best here, and I hope it can be built into something that is better than where we came from. I just don’t have the energy to take hits from both sides anymore.

  • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I suspect that PieFed communities might be far easier to moderate, using the more automated tools that exist and are being developed - e.g. if someone does not want to see a post with a keyword such as “Musk”, they can use the personal filtering tools to block it themselves without having to rely upon a moderator to do everything for them.

    But it sounds like you need a break from social media altogether, which I assure you will be beneficial for your health. A little bit there (of social media I mean) is all you need - rather reading books or practicing hobbies, best of all even is touching grass.

    And if you return, PieFed really does have tools that makes it easier to do just what you want on the platform and avoid what you don’t, e.g. rather than looking at your Subscribed feed you could go to just “Arts & Craft” while avoiding politics, or vice versa visit “News & Politics” to avoid digging into memes. For low-volume communities I even have every new post trigger a Notification to alert me to view it first.

    I am trying to say that there’s hope, for when and if you return, to dial back your social media addiction. To participate without being sucked in as deeply as you were before. But anyway you do it, take care of yourself first.

    Also, I avoided those large contentious communities that you modded but even so I will say thank you for trying to serve others all across the Threadiverse - that speaks a lot to your character that you were willing to hold the line for so long.