The whole ruse thing with other Lemmy mods is super strange to me, I don't get it at all. Do the admins dislike dunking so much that they want it removed from other instances? Are they that invested in how other instances are run? Or was it not actually a ruse?
I might be overthinking it, I dunno. The whole thing has really weird vibes.
I think you're overthinking it. The problem attempting to be solved by messaging the other admins was not "dunking" it was their drama communities doing harassment campaigns (against vegantheoryclub most notably), and trying to bait other instances into doing the right thing and shutting down those harassment engines
The issue with that message (IMO) was mainly that it happened before the public announcement here, and that it conceded our dunking as shitty/harassing and analagous to those drama comms on other instances, which it isn't. I guess the idea was that the lib instance admins would see that capitulation and apply the same critical eye to themselves, but obv that didn't work given the lack of response from them
The context switching/tone difference between addressing users here, vs addressing other admins there, is to be expected and shouldn't be held against carcosa
The whole ruse thing with other Lemmy mods is super strange to me, I don't get it at all. Do the admins dislike dunking so much that they want it removed from other instances? Are they that invested in how other instances are run? Or was it not actually a ruse?
I might be overthinking it, I dunno. The whole thing has really weird vibes.
I think you're overthinking it. The problem attempting to be solved by messaging the other admins was not "dunking" it was their drama communities doing harassment campaigns (against vegantheoryclub most notably), and trying to bait other instances into doing the right thing and shutting down those harassment engines
The issue with that message (IMO) was mainly that it happened before the public announcement here, and that it conceded our dunking as shitty/harassing and analagous to those drama comms on other instances, which it isn't. I guess the idea was that the lib instance admins would see that capitulation and apply the same critical eye to themselves, but obv that didn't work given the lack of response from them
The context switching/tone difference between addressing users here, vs addressing other admins there, is to be expected and shouldn't be held against carcosa