I debated posting this, but it's a lazy, rainy Saturday and this is the hot topic, why not?
- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards? AdmiralPatrick
- What sanction did they impose? Community ban. Additionally, three of my communities were on the tesseract ban list.
I was the one of the first downvotes on the latest post here: https://lemmy.today/post/57202811 which probably instigated the ban.
Aaaand I was linking to the Admiral's rant all over lemmy, which may have been part of it.
Now, this kinda sucks because I liked tesseract up until I couldn't mod my own communities anymore, finding out later that they were on the ban list. Of course when a locked post comes up trying to make sense of the community blocks, calling them unstable and unmoderated, I'm gonna downvote that shit.
My username wasn't even on the original ban list, just those communities.
There's nothing toxic or unmoderated about anything I run. Not to mention that one of those communities has barely over 100 subscribers and exists just to post a few daily news articles from independent, Canadian sources.
I know nothing about the ban list makes any sense, but blocking three small news communities with posts that rarely get more than two comments and twenty upvotes is crazy. He would have had to search and dig and dig just to find them.
It's extra nuts considering my brandnewsentence community gets wayyyy more feisty comments than the rest put together, and it's not blocked.
So there's your drama, it's a poor consolation prize for the loss of a pretty good front end. I'm looking forward to the fork and any updates on the ban list.
I'm not trying to hide information and I want to bring awareness to it.
Oops, I think I confused it with something else or I misunderstood it lol. My bad.
I was trying to say bitching about an asshat dev is only bringing his wanted attention to his project.
Sure, negative attention.
If a few future users decide they like arbitrary bans and a lack of transparency, I hope they find their happy place.
Sometimes any attention is better than none, you know?
Not really, in the sense, that they had already been in control and responsible for the parts of the project; this was not something they wanted made known.
It’s not hard to read between the lines. They didn’t git commit the JSON file in gzip format to save space. They did it to obfuscate it. Their change commits never mention changes to that file because they don’t want attention drawn to it.
I din't think anybody want to use an tool that may censor them from whatever dumb reason the creator deemed valid
That's more of a "there is no such thing as bad publicity" angle to the situation.