3 mo. ago • 88%

Server Owner Spits Their Dummy Out Over Being Downvoted, Locks Post When People Call Them Out

This unfolded on "United States | News & Politics@midwest.social". Owner 'seahorse' showing the kind of person they are.

This is not how you run a server.

Edit: link to comment:

https://midwest.social/comment/11535311

72 comments

Confirmed its real, and now I am blocking that instance. Thanks for the info. There is enough content on lemmy, a few instances can be excluded.

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- I personally think that's a bit much to block an entire instance over when just one admin is being mildly annoying. Their comment is basically nothing imo lol. Compare that to the OP of this post whose profile picture is a cartoon pony from a children's show having an orgasm.
  
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  It's almost like a community made of opinionated nerds loves making fake drama and being whiny bitches in general.
  
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  Oh I'll still see those users on different communities, because blocking the instance only stops their threads and communities from showing on my All sorted list
  
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- Added a link to the comment in my post. Thanks for reminding me!
  
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  All that link does is try to send an email. You have to put a "!" in front of it: !Politics@midwest.social
  
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- Yeah it’s definitely real, I came across it in my feed before seeing this post. Guy seems like a real arsehole.
  
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So server admins are how we get the Reddit mod experience

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Permanently Deleted

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- Who’s awkward turtle?
  
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  Permanently Deleted
  
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- Yep, he is a power-tripping person.
  
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  Ironic
  
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  I love seeing the conversations where you get your ass handed to you by an account that's banned in your community. Just chef's kiss
  
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But it is.

Lemmy isn't set up to create a set of fairly moderated communities with buy-in from users. It is set up so anyone can be a dictator on their own server.

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- Yup. But thankfully, it's also set up so they can quickly become dictators of their own little desert island.
  
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- Users can still quickly leave until they found a fair admin
  
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  A fair admin for now.
  
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- That's the beautiful thing about lemmy. If I don't like the current dictator, I can easily switch to a more benevolent leader.
  
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Welp, just in case I just made !theonion@sh.itjust.works

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- o7
  
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Sorry to hear, I love the Lotr memes community

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- Never too late to make your own. Especially if enough people decide this is worth blocking the instance entirely.
  
  !theonion@sh.itjust.works
  
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  Thank god we’re doing things on more than world
  
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  Indeed, but I have enough communities under my belt to be honest 😅
  
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"Can't even downvote in Ohio"

For those who don't know what this means, but want to, you can read https://www.distractify.com/p/what-does-ohio-mean-slang and https://www.distractify.com/p/only-in-ohio-tiktok-meme.

TLDR it's a phrase that people use now similar to "Florida man".

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yeah i have my problems with midwest. i think a succinct way to put it is that instance does not appreciate the federation process.

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I remember there was a far right mastodon server

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- Yeah, Truth Social lol
  
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  I remember it was smth else
  
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- Is there more context? Was it affiliated with the Lemmy instance?
  
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  nah but i remember i was looking at the mastodon blacklisted list
  
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I've never blocked an instance.

If I block an instance, that blocks all users too, right?

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- Nope
  
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..so was this about his take on the Gaza war? That he thought support for Palestine would lead to a loss of democracy?

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- No they’re saying that’s what people criticizing the protestors are arguing. I think their take is perfectly acceptable but the power tripping is pretty rough
  
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  Yeah, I'd have to look into the context but their edit kinda sours it no matter what.
  
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- Yeah, exactly. He's saying that if you vote for Kamala in order to end the genocide in Gaza and prevent Trump from bombing the West Bank, then you're letting the fascists win and democracy is dead. He thinks we should all be apathetic towards Palestine and do nothing as a show of "symbolic" support for Gazans.
  
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What does "spits their dummy out" man in this context? Is it just "says dumb shit"?

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- It's like a baby throwing a little tantrum, essentially.
  
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So how do i block an instance?

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- Settings, last tab iirc
  
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Damn it. Don’t wanna lose our !theonion@midwest.social community

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- Well, if we do...
  
  !theonion@sh.itjust.works
  
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