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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
What’s wrong with world? (serious question) I know that ml has tankies and such but I’ve never heard of issues with world.
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.
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.
This is my philosophy as well.
My comment quoting the Mueller report got deleted from .world because I was spreading “mis information”.
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.
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
I didn’t mention this because I was unaware it happened, but I’m not in the least bit surprised
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.
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.
No argument there. I do think this causes confusion though. I’ll have to see if there’s already a feature request.
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.
It’s essentially Reddit 2.0, with all the baggage that implies.
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
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
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