MeanwhileOnGrad
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
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Basic Rules:
Sh.itjust.works Instance rules apply! If you are from other instances, please be mindful of the rules. — Basically, don't be a dick.
Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.
Apologia — (Using the Modern terminology for Apologia) No Defending, Denying, Justifying, Bolstering, or Differentiating authoritarian acts or endeavours, whether be a Pro-CCP viewpoint, Stalinism, Islamic Terrorism or any variation of Tankie Ideology.
Revisionism — No downplaying or denying atrocities past and present. Calling Tankies shills, foreign/federal agents, or bots also falls under this rule. Extremists exist. They are real. Do not call them shills or fake users as it handwaves their extremism.
Tankies can explain their views but may be criticised or attacked for them. Any slight infraction on the rules above will immediately earn a warning and possibly a ban.
Off-topic Discussion — Do not discuss unrelated topics to the point of derailing the thread. Stay focused on the direct content of the post as opposed to arguing.
You'll be warned if you're violating the instance and community rules. Continuing poor behaviour after being warned will result in a ban or removal of your comments. Bans typically only last 24 hours, but each subsequent infraction will double the amount. Depending on the content, the ban time may be increased. You may request an unban at any time.
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Are you asking me why instances who might want to abuse their power might not propagate certain actions to other instances so they aren't as visible? Or why it might seem like a bug when attempts at removal don't seem to work out? I'm not accusing you, but these are valid concerns lemmy has to face.
But yeah, f it's "bad server code" and not actually federated when bugs occur, there's not much of a point to claiming they are. So far I don't see that there might have been willing intent to screw with the modlog as the original complaint suggested, but it shouldn't be left up to good faith. If it's supposed to be federated, it should be. If everything isn't getting federated, it should be clear what isn't. If the modlog isn't displaying everything, it should be clear when it isn't. As of now, to anyone who can't bother to look at the code, it's a black box and it's clear that the modlogs between servers aren't lining up the same.
Where did the user say they did not agree with the TOS? No point in not citing the original comment that was archived, because there's no point there at which it does. It only contains criticism in a thread made by admins saying they were open to criticism. The closest it comes to not agreeing with the TOS is the criticism here:
But at least thanks for opening up on that. Is it also true that you haven't contacted them or responded to them directly either?
Considering how little it took for a user to get their entire user account purged and banned, I'm not sure why you would consider it surprising that anyone else who raises an eyebrow wouldn't want to risk any previous account they made.
It's a testament that you haven't banned this account already from the instance given how you treated the original user, but it still seems like hunting around for an excuse, like maybe being able to apply the label of "ban evasion" like that you gave kbin.social/InternetTubes, just to dismiss criticism.
You and AvaddonLFC certainly seem to know each other personally and are the two most active admins on the instance, so if I do seem to be pushing this, it's because I am definitely concerned about making any considerable amount of contributions over a considerable degree of time only to have it deleted or removed with a complete and utter disregard.
I'd rather face the problem sooner rather than later. Allowing it or not saying anything about it is basically allowing a way to gaslight and remove the reputation a user might have built up over time to one where it's just a random claim versus a position of seniority. I'll give you that I am one of the few people who seems to care about the issue, so I probably won't be returning to my lemmy.world account, at least not without a VPN proxy and a separate VM instance.