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Cake day: February 18th, 2024

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  • I’ve written off Lemmy.world as ever giving a serious consequence to anyone. This update is not remotely acceptable and you well know this. You gave him a warning? Well let me remind you of the fact that you already gave him one. You even said as much publicly. You said you talked to him and told him he was wrong on the Canadian thing and then 3 hours later he turns around and publicly says he has done nothing wrong and has repeatedly doubled down.

    This is a perfect demonstration of the fact that he does not care about your warnings. He doesn’t listen to them, he doesn’t take them into account and that you have absolutely no bearing on his decisions.

    The admin team has either reached a level of incompetence that I genuinely do not believe exists considering I know a bunch of you or you’re all compromised for some other reason. Whether that’s because you rely on him too much for everything and literally cannot function without him, whether you’re too close friends with him and not actually caring about any reports from users or whatever other reason. But I cannot take you guys seriously when you’re not taking yourself and your own rules seriously.

    This administration decision is a fucking joke.

    @ruud@lemmy.world you said that you didn’t want Jordan to be the face of Lemmy.world? Well too bad dude. This decision just permanently cemented that Lemmy.world ignores overwhelming evidence of abuse and either actively condones/supports abusive moderators or, at best, doesn’t care about them at all. However this isn’t your best. You’ve seen a constant amount of evidence dripping the entire time he’s been the moderator and you’ve warned him before and he didn’t care. Now you’re doing the same thing when you already know it doesn’t work and if you’re taking the same action and expecting a different outcome? It’s not insanity. It’s willful incompetence.

    I cannot say this loudly enough.

    Lemmy.world is just the Reddit version of Lemmy if this is the way you’re fucking behaving. And I, for one, wanna play no part in it.





























  • Huh. That’s fucking odd. I just tested it on Piefed.world as well and same issue but on lemmy.world they do redirect correctly. Looks like Piefed might have some issue with that.

    At any rate, I’ve updated the list in the post. A set of extra links that are using a thing called Lemmyverse which should allow you to set a home instance on the first click and it’ll redirect to your instances version of that post/user/community. Only need to set the home instance once and you can change it easily anytime.



  • By the typical and stupid societal definition of the word manly, he does fit. Not only the visual depiction of it, but also the fact that he goes out and builds his own furniture and a variety of other hobbies. Also, I want him inside of me.

    The problem is that this societal definition of the word manly is stupid, because it’s limiting to every single person involved and sexist garbage.






  • but it sounds like they at least require a fairly high bar for gross violations, although this may qualify.

    By the bars they laid out? He already has violated all of them. He clearly meets the standards needed for removal of a community moderator. They said that he needs to have commited gross violations of the TOS but he has and they’ve been documented for months.

    but I would think it’s not an admin’s job to judge a mod as unworthy of running their community unless they do something egregious enough to warrant an instance ban.~~

    He has literally been instance banned from other instances because he violates their TOS. LW won’t apply the same enforcement despite the fact that he violates their own TOS.


  • So in Canada we use different political terms than the Americans do. One of these is usage of the word ‘Government’. In the US, Government applies to the whole general moving structure of the United States. In Canada the word Government applies to the ruling party specifically in much the same way that Americans use the word ‘Administration’. Jordan was not aware of this.

    A user commented that a particular person was not a Member of Government, referring to the fact that they were not in the party that currently forms the Government of Canada. Jordan Lund removed this as ‘Misinformation’, claiming that the particular person was an elected member of parliament so calling them not a member of government was flat out misinformation. Important point to note is this was on the World News community. An American with incomplete information about something removed a comment under the guise of misinformation that was about another country. Personally? This is kind of annoying. But it dropped into rage inducing territory when he repeatedly doubled down.

    The comment removed:

    Unfortunately, this guy isn’t even a member of the government. He’s a backbencher in our third biggest political party. OK enough guy as far as I know, people in the NDP usually are, but he’s basically a nobody. Calling him a “lawmaker” is about as generous as they could get.

    Even through context alone it should have been made clear how the word government was being used but Jordan was either incapable of grasping that or refused to. He was called out on it and doubled down on his stance. Multiple users educated him on the subject but he refused to engage with anything that proved him wrong (this is a continuous problem of his). Months later he said the same thing again. Again, multiple users proved him wrong. Once again, he refused to engage.

    A couple of weeks ago, I made a rather large post that detailed numerous things that he has done. Like a ton. In the comments, someone brought up the Canadian thing again to an admin of LW named MrKaplan. Kaplan said

    […] we have already discussed topics like the Canadian politics one with him in the past, as we also don’t consider it acceptable what he did back then. Source

    3 hours later, Jordan again doubled down.

    They doubled down, with the idea that even though they are elected and can vote, they don’t count as a member of government because they aren’t part of the ruling party. Which is utter and complete nonsense. They are getting a government paycheck, they are a “member of government.” Source

    Small sidebar but the Wikipedia page for the Government of Canada says this:

    Under Canada’s Westminster-style parliamentary democracy, the terms government and Government of Canada refer specifically to the prime minister, Cabinet, and other members of the governing party inside the House of Commons, but typically includes the federal public service and federal departments and agencies when used elsewhere.[7] This differs from the United States, where the executive branch is referred to as an administration and the federal government encompasses executive, legislative, and judicial powers, similar to the Canadian Crown. Source

    In that moment Jordan proved one of two things. Either that the admins had never actually talked about the issue to him or (more likely) that he did not believe that he did anything wrong so he ignored anything that was told to him.

    He does not accept differing information than that of what he believes, he moderates through an American lens and refuses to take the differences of other countries into account and he repeatedly doubles down on an inaccurate retelling of events as well as an inaccurate definition of the term Government inside of Canada. Doubling down even when an admin publicly says he’s wrong.

    This single event alone proves that he is incapable of impartial moderation of /c/World and needs to be immediately removed. Months of this going on and months of this insisting he’s correct while admins publicly say he isn’t. It was this specific inaction by the Admins of Lemmy.world that caused me to move off of the instance. I couldn’t tolerate them willfully accepting American misinformation about Canadian politics being pushed on a WorldNews community. This entire release saying that they’re going to look into things and then decide is, frankly, a joke. He was publicly contradicting something the Admins privately told him and doing the thing they told him not to. They have the ammo they need to from just this one moment stretched over the course of months.

    He won’t listen to them and follow the basic rules they laid out yet they will not remove him while he actively violates the TOS of Lemmy.world. At that point there is no justification for the inaction of Admins. Absolutely none. I grant time needed to review, sure, but it’s been essentially 2 weeks since I made that post public in which they said they were already reviewing his behavior for days. Half of a month is not needed for this decision and I can’t stomach this any longer.