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What's going on with Lefty_News_Wire (DramaRama/Tinfoil Hat) (kbin.earth)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml to c/comradeship@lemmygrad.ml

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What is going on with Left News Wire?

For some reason, I decided to check the modlog, which I've never done, for this community, before. Now I did. 🧐

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[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Comrade @RedWizard@hexbear.net continues his excellent work over at Abolish.Capital , as explained in this post.

The drama leading up to it is silly and not worth getting into, but basically Philip got upset that they got banned from dbzer0 for defending a transphobe, decided to protest and block dbzer0 and Lemmy.ml from ibbit, then RedWizard decided letting Lefty_News_Wire remain at the whims of such an admin wasn't a great move going forward.

That's the TL;DR. If you want to waste your time, you can dive into these threads.

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I just think Phil is an operative or alternatively, possibly dealing with serious MH issues, since on one hand they complain about Nu being transphobic then...are upset with getting a transphobic ban???

Anyway thanks for the update. And if you participate in any gatherings today, that it's supremely enjoyable.

Eta: I remember that thread. I got bored with it then and quit, and I'm bored now after less than five minutes.

I'm really impressed with your patience and ability to remain unruffled when being egregiously abused. How do you do it?!

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I will say this of Phil. He was always willing to hear me out when some post was generated from the feeds I assembled that he thought was "propaganda". It never really yielded any results and in at least one instance he misrepresented why one feed was removed. It was all inconsequential ultimately. I just was not interested in managing his personality, and my comm was the largest on his site. While I drove most of the traffic, he held all the cards. Now I have control over what is being distributed and try to work with our communities here to build a news feed that they are interested in. Interestingly, the most active users it would seem are all from .world.

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow. I'm really sorry you had to deal with all that. And...Well he's surely enough letting some of what he would normally call propaganda get posted now; so it seems to me like control issues,.

Kbin is really having a hard time controlling bot traffic and I feel bad for the admin, but when I get the chance, I'll be amending some subscriptions. Thanks for the additional information.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh I totally brought this on myself, and anticipated this would be the result. When I attempted to add a list of leftist publications to ibbit via request, Phill wasn't that interested in managing them all so he made me a comm to mod. Once I realized I was the largest comm on the site I started working on abolish.capital. The domain came later, but I wanted my own RSS bot and needed to learn how to spin up a Lemmy instance. His break away from ml and db0 was the push I needed to finish it.

I'm not up on what is going on with kbin but the one good idea that Phill had was containing this content to its own domain so admins could defederate from them. People can block the bot if they didn't want the content.

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Kbin is being hit hard with scrapers.

Anyway, thanks for all your work and dedication to learning. I look forward to expanding my feeds based on what I've learned, here. If you are participating in any gatherings, may they be enjoyable.

[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

My take on Phil is that they have particular views that they see everything through, and have infinite patience and leeway for that which should logically break their views. In short, they license themselves, and aren't that close to getting radicalized. We all license ourselves, but those more directly impacted by the failures of the system tend to be closer to radicalization.

And thank you, you too as well (if you participate in any gatherings, of course)

Edi: Regarding my patience, I'm just extremely stubborn, and try not to let that which I know to be wrong get under my skin.

[–] Maeve1@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you.

We all license ourselves, but those more directly impacted by the failures of the system tend to be closer to radicalization.

Hmm, I also guessed he's a "fu, I got mine" lib.

[–] Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Can't know for sure, of course, it's just an impression.