As it should be in the Fediverse

Ah, just forget the whole thing

Do people really get into fights with mods here?

It’s inevitable whenever there are mods. Sometimes people just clash but in my experience I always just remind myself ‘who are the types of people who would voluntarily want to be a mod?’ and then I go outside and speak with actual humans.
- This is so true 🤣 I love it
- well the basis of arguing on the internet is thinking of mean things to type on a keyboard
  
  there is nothing more pussy than hiding behind a keyboard to talk shit. i talk shit online too tho.
I did on reddit, but that's because reddit mods are power-hungry shitstains who will argue that your comment is aimed at the lgbt community, until you direct them to the fact that you are part of the lgbt community, and then suddenly they change their narrative and it's not, it's just aimed at women, when I point out that the comment was about my negative experiences with a childhood male 'doctor', and then it becomes "I'm not going to argue anymore [because I've run out of bullshit reasons to veil the fact that I support this kind of abuse of power as I draw parallels from my mod experience and your pain being valid hurts my microscopic pp and massive ego]"

I've had a few run-ins but that was one specifically was fucking wild. Give people a bit of fake power and they lose their fucking minds.

Everyone here has been pretty cool, no drama.
The mods on /c/worldnews actively put a thumb on the scale when it comes to subjects like the Israeli-Palstinian conflict. If you don't follow the party line, your comment is subject to removal. That "No hate speech, bigotry, propaganda, etc" rule does a lot of work. It's not worth getting in a fight over, but I was a little sore that my comment about taking Hamas' casualty statistics with a grain of salt would be prudent was deleted, while downright hateful comments towards Israel were left standing.
- It's sad to hear. I believe that healthy discussion should always be welcomed even if you disagree. And hateful things should always be discouraged.
- The .world admins have always been corrupt and they're doing it on purpose to ensure the internet remains censored and that Americans never have a free place to converse about what they need to converse about.

Do we really call ourselves "lemmings"? I fee like that kind of portrays the wrong image of us.

I mean, it's like voluntarily going by "sheeple" or something. Do people not know what lemmings are anymore?

Lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs. The source of that myth comes from a documentary where the documentarians made them jump off cliffs.

https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=56
- I mean, still. I associate them with the games more than anything. And that's definetily not the kind of look i'd want out of a community that originated specifically because they DIDN'T want to just follow the herd and use what's popular regardless of how shitty it gets.
Personally, I think "lemming" is infinitely better than "fedditor".

If only I weren't so lazy

But you are lazy, right?
- Don't get me started!

The Fediverse can only grow, I'm glad that it mostly seems to work the only problem I have is that on smaller instances you can't see the history of non-hosted communities as well as you have to add each community to the instance what is hard to find without using certain communities or just checking another instance.