It's got a strong neoliberal bias. In my experience, the users on .world are fairly diverse in opinions and philosophy, but the mods tend to be pro-status quo centrists -- with exceptions, of course.

I recall a mod on their politics community who posted a mod-flaired comment informing us that "the United States is not a racist nation."

Some of their policies seem questionable as well, such as blocking piracy communities or disallowing archived versions of paywalled articles. It feels like the sort of thing reddit would have done to appease advertisers.

I'll admit I'm biased because I haven't had the greatest experience with some specific .world mods, one in particular who is fond of calling people "morons" for criticizing Biden. To be fair, I've seen another more rational mod remove that particular mod's comments, but it seems to keep happening anyway.

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 18 points 9 months ago (1 children)

disallowing archived versions of paywalled articles

Really? I can't stand paywalled articles especially on sites where sharing the article (here, on Lemmy) is the main point of it all.

I always link to an archive.ph or archive.org version because not only does it help bypass all that crap but it also preserves it for future generations.

This platform is for all of us, not just those who can afford WaPo or The New York Times subscriptions.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 9 months ago

This is my philosophy as well.

[–] Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let’s not forget the people who were just straight up banned when they expressed their disapproval of banning the pirate communities.

You’re definitely right, a lot of the time this place feels like Reddit lite

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 9 months ago

I didn't mention this because I was unaware it happened, but I'm not in the least bit surprised

[–] arymandias@feddit.de 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

My comment quoting the Mueller report got deleted from .world because I was spreading “mis information”.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 9 months ago

And yet when they got hit by CSAM, it was up for hours. Now they're trying to blame image hosting sites when it's their own bad moderation that's to blame. Really awful mods and admins on that instance, from what I've seen.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I recall a mod on their politics community who posted a mod-flaired comment informing us that "the United States is not a racist nation."

To be fair, there is no option to comment not flaired as a mod once you become one. Which honestly seems like an oversight. I'm quite active so I've volunteered to mod some big communities that have asked since I'm more likely to see a report but I dislike that now it's as though I can't properly participate as just a normal user.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Oh I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for explaining.

Even so, that was quite the hot take even for someone to make as a regular user.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No argument there. I do think this causes confusion though. I'll have to see if there's already a feature request.

[–] Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 24 points 9 months ago

Frankly, it’s just way too big, which can make performance bad, makes it a target for attacks and due to the huge user base it’s harder to upgrade. That’s why .world is still on 0.18.5 while most of lemmy is at 0.19.3.

Also, from what I’ve seen the admins can get a bit powertrippy.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 15 points 9 months ago

It's essentially Reddit 2.0, with all the baggage that implies.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=ModRemoveComment

As of writing this comment, one of the most recent reasons a mod has removed a comment was: reason: Comm rule 3: Claims that Ukraine does not have a Nazi problem

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago

It was removed by a mod from feddit.de though. Not like that is LW’s problem unless you want admins to personally intervene with the moderation of every community on their site

[–] Pan_Ziemniak@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Hmm looked my username up there to see what reasoning was given for why i was banned from world news after calling out russian propaganda.

Says, i broke lemmy.ml's rule 2. But i thought i was banned from world news, which itself was hosted on lemmy.world. like either way, nothing of value was lost to me, just confused about which shithole im banned from commenting in. Is it all of lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, or just the world news sub?

E: grammar und clarity