Since yesterday, Jordanlund is continuing to remove reporting like that from the reputed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_Site_News (article depicted in the screenshot is https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-spy-yoni-koren-stayed-jeffrey-epstein-apartment-ehud-barak) just for being hosted with substack. He is now moderating World News and Politics at lemmy.world.
Yes, legitimate news sites use Blogging platforms, they also use Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube and we don’t allow those links either.
goodness, that is not the point. That means these outlets post to their own website while also reposting the thing on twitter. In so many cases, their own website uses substack/wordpress! For example, https://time.com/ is the official website of Time magazine, as in the publisher of Time Person of the Year. It uses WordPress, as you can see by going to https://time.com/wp-admin/.
If he wants to target blogspam, he should be targeting things like The Daily Beast and https://www.utubepublisher.in/, which use none of the technologies he’s targeting. This ban on CMS technology is arbitrary and does not prevent poor publishing that simply registers a domain, as anyone may register a domain.
I get that. Unfortunately the Threadiverse is designed with almost no option to handle mods who don’t listen or push weird agendas. Except one: to vote with our feet. In other words, leave said community. I already did that (a long time ago.) I wish we had more comfortable ways to address it, or let the community members shape their rules. But we sadly don’t have that.
I mean the entire design of Lemmy was just Reddit + “implement vote with feet feature”. It seems effective and I don’t really see what’s wrong with it. Listening to the community is supposed to be the admins’ job.
And this particular mod has caused more than one mass exodus IIRC. Dot world admin DGAF.
I mean they didn’t care when a top level mod (who also wanted to promote flat earth on .world) said that being pro-palestine was antisemitic.
Ohhhh the flat earth stuff was crazy times. lololol
I’m amazed he’s still in power after that but seeing as Jordanlund is in power, it’s impressive.
There’s really no difference between reddit and Lemmy other than more opportunity for moreauthoritarian censor-heavy mods and admins. The “vote with your feet” didn’t work on Reddit and it doesn’t work here, since 99% of people are just lurkers who go where the majority and “defaults” are.
On Reddit anyone can make a new sub, but it virtually never works now matter how bad the original gets.
i say it does. firstly it aesthetically pleases me that the new subs here don’t have to take on increasingly bizarre names. secondly there’s so many examples of alternative commags here. the most successful one has been 196->onehundredninetysix. and even then you have things like !usa@midwest.social for all the news commags and so on and so forth. everything receives a lot of comments here so it’s really no big deal that you’re not getting hundreds of upvotes
reddit also just hasn’t been fun unlike here