Owning his own instance would probably work better for him, so removing himself from the communities where he was the sole contributor seems like a good decision.

Even if it takes time, be transparent about it, update the community and explain how long you expect things to take.

Keeping people in the dark will quickly be interpreted as "we don't care"

The rule is indeed to report OP's specific interactions with a mod, but in your case it's kind of a compilation of those interactions, which is why db0 said that your post follows the spirit of the rules

Copy pasting from a comment below

@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com explanation

FYI goat, i downvoted the post you screenshotted because the person, @isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de, made this disgusting comment and got permabanned on LW + here for it. He’s a horrible person, which is why i downvoted his post. Not because of the content.

I am not a tankie, not even hexbear/ml users consider me as such; I’ve also seen other stuff about me being a Soviet apologist (?) Which, no, from using the search feature, I have not it seems. Unless they’re including the time I was being nice to cowbee… ? Either way I personally do not have a positive opinion of the USSR but I really don’t want to get into that here.

I have also had a conversation with cowbee themselves once where I told them I disagree with them with the USSR, China and Ukraine about a week ago, so no, I am not an apologist for the Soviet union.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21109507

From @unruffled@anarchist.nexus

To be clear, if I haven’t been already, I 100% condemn China’s actions towards the Uyghurs. Is it technically a genocide? Depends what definition you’re working with, but to my mind it meets the definition.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52160152/21075559

On the other hand the single mod on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works seems quite ban happy lately, and resorting to debatable arguments

My community is also bigger lol

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20731327

And the amount of posts on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works by that same single mod is concerning. How many of those do they need make, reusing the same screenshot ad nauseam when Unruffled recognized that China's actions towards the Uyghur meet the definition of a genocide (see comment above)?

Damn, that's a long post. I'll have a deeper look later, but thank you already for writing it.

Small reminder that out of the 20th most active communities on the Threadiverse

• 16 are on Lemmy.world
• 1 is on mander.xyz
• 1 is on lemmy.blahaj.zone
• 1 is on midwest.social
• 1 is on piefed.social

Source: https://piefed.zip/communities?search=&home_select=any&subscribe_select=any&topic_id=0&feed_id=0&language_id=0&instance=&sort_by=active_weekly+desc

Lemmyverse.net does not show Piefed nor Mbin communities on the Communities list.

None of them had a large following. The one potential exception could be !fediversenews@piefed.social, but it wasn't that active since @Sunshine@piefed.ca switched to !fediverse@piefed.social

Reddit mods...

!privacy@programming.dev for people unaware

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.

Maybe I'm missing something, but if removing those comments was not acceptable, why haven't those comments been restored?

https://lemmy.world/comment/13966483

Thank you for this comment

Quoting @MrKaplan@lemmy.world on this one

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.

https://lemmy.world/comment/19450869

Someone can post very interesting content but still power trip as a mod, the two are not exclusive

Hello,

Thank you for moderating those communities for so long.

Good luck with your break, would be nice to see you back after a while, even just as a lurker/commenter, on Piefed or another Lemmy instance of your choice.

Take care!

For me, it's kind of the opposite.

@fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com explanation

FYI goat, i downvoted the post you screenshotted because the person, @isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de, made this disgusting comment and got permabanned on LW + here for it. He’s a horrible person, which is why i downvoted his post. Not because of the content.

I am not a tankie, not even hexbear/ml users consider me as such; I’ve also seen other stuff about me being a Soviet apologist (?) Which, no, from using the search feature, I have not it seems. Unless they’re including the time I was being nice to cowbee… ? Either way I personally do not have a positive opinion of the USSR but I really don’t want to get into that here.

I have also had a conversation with cowbee themselves once where I told them I disagree with them with the USSR, China and Ukraine about a week ago, so no, I am not an apologist for the Soviet union.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/21109507

From @unruffled@anarchist.nexus

To be clear, if I haven’t been already, I 100% condemn China’s actions towards the Uyghurs. Is it technically a genocide? Depends what definition you’re working with, but to my mind it meets the definition.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/52160152/21075559

On the other hand single mod on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works seems quite ban happy lately, and resorting to debatable arguments

My community is also bigger lol

https://sh.itjust.works/comment/20731327

And the amount of posts on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works by that same single mod is concerning. How many of those do they need make, reusing the same screenshot ad nauseam when Unruffled recognized that China's actions towards the Uyghur meet the definition of a genocide (see comment above)?

As far as I know, nobody ever took the time to document everything like in this post.

Soon they'll kill old and then we'll have a new influx of people here

Thank you for sharing the update !

But if everybody keeps dogs piling on him and making this worse for him, it’s not going to allow him to see this in any way other than him being bullied. And to be honest, in a certain extent, that will be a correct way of seeing this. I want people to be able to learn from mistakes and grow and be better.

That's nice of you.

Unfortunately in this case, this isn't the first time he's featured in this community, the other post got removed for whatever reason. The only remaining evidence of that is

• https://atomicpoet.org/...
• most of those bans have been reverted since then: https://lemmy.zip/modlog/1364327

Seems like it's time to bring back the moment where JLund power tripped over Canada's government terminology despite being corrected by several Canadian citizens

• https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33541518/15906107 - original post
• https://lemmy.world/post/32343339/18060907 - doubling down 2 months ago

But anyway, his comments in this thread already speak for themselves.

Edit: people sometimes question why I try to avoid overcentralization on LW. That mod mods both !politics@lemmy.world, !news@lemmy.world and !world@lemmy.world, three of the most active communities on the whole platform.

If a community gets large and this happens, I feel they fracture when they move.

They don't, what fractures communities is having similar communities active at the same time.

!television@piefed.social is the only single active community about television, it is much more active than !movies@piefed.social as !movies@lemmy.world is still open, giving https://lawsofux.com/choice-overload/ to posters, commenters and subscribers