pinkdrunkenelephants

joined 2 years ago
 

Yo peeps,

I am locking this sub and leaving .world permanently like I should have done months ago because .world moderation, administration, and the user base has proven to be one of the more particularly horrific nests of vipers I have encountered on the internet so far, and I am done putting up with it.

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SO WHY?

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I put up with .world refusing to defederate with Threads months back. I put up with the constant site-breaking and moderation-breaking bugs including blocking not working. I put up with the admins slowly showing themselves to be no different than Reddit ones by sanitizing the website to the point where people have difficulty saying #EatTheRich sentiments without problems. I put up with bootlickers on here telling me that mods can do whatever they want to anyone for any reason and if I don't like it I can go elsewhere.

I've put up with a LOT on this sub. And I've dished out my fair share of harsh words too. But what happened on .world yesterday is absolutely unacceptable.

This past day, I have found out the hard way that rape apologia and sexism are actually very rampant on this instance, and that is the straw that broke the camel's back. I have a few screenshots to show what I am talking about:

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Yeah, I'm not down to hang out at an instance where "At least you're alive!1!!" is a meaningful defense for rape and rape victims are openly told to check their privilege compared to that of a rapist. Amongst the rest of the dumbassery I have borne witness to since yesterday. Whom others openly and flagrantly side with. 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

Nah, I would sooner jab a needle through my eyeball than do that.

Since rape is apparently A-OK on this instance, I will not participate on it anymore. It's that simple.

.world is filled with truly horrific people and I will not help them by keeping this sub up.

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SO WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE SUB?

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It'll stay locked until either:

  1. I find someone trustworthy to keep it running,
  2. I delete it,
  3. Most likely: The admins just take it and hand it to one of their cronies, probably one of the scumfucks from that thread I posted screenshots from, to assert dominance.

I will seek out and find someone I feel would be a good mod on my own.

All of the posts will stay up.

Thank you all for participating and hanging out, and I wish all the best.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I thought you made your own instance.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Not always. Say Ten Forward has a problem with .world in the future, for example. If Ten Forward defederates, they would cut out a large part of their userbase because most Lemmy users are .world users, and won't move for any reason. And, if Ten Forward stays federated with .world, that means their feed will be inundated with .world crap all the time instead of what they want: Star Trek stuff. People can't and won't just switch to a local feed; that's not the way people work and Lemmy doesn't work with the way people use the site, breaking it.

Meaning one instance will always dominate the others, and that's wrong.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I'm not knocking on what Stamets is doing. In fact, it's clearly the best thing he could have done.

That doesn't change the fact that the way Lemmy is as a community and as a platform is one of the main reasons why shit like this keeps happening.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Nah, I do, and Lemmy's promise was to serve as a meaningful alternative to Reddit where powermodding like what you experienced wouldn't happen, and it failed miserably. You're also not the only person to see how terrible Lemmy has turned out to be or who has suffered because of it. It's not just your former instance crap like this has happened on, you see.

I hope TenForward turns out to be a better place and that you have a better experience.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Shit like this is why Lemmy is garbage and why you all need to take better care in vetting who gets to participate in your websites. It should not have been possible for Reddit powermods to infiltrate and take over Lemmy in the first place.

I am sorry you are bearing the brunt of abuse on this platform too. Lemmy clearly doesn't hold up to its promise.

 

I didn't come to a new service just to see it get taken over by the corporate beasts who ruined the internet in general, and I am sure as hell am not going to use an instance that doesn't care about its users.

I think the admin of this instance might have been paid off to federate with Threads, it being one of the most popular.

So, I am giving y'all 24 hours to defederate and if the Lemmy.world admins don't, I'm-a bounce and close down my subs behind me

That is all