Everyday my decision to leave Lemmy.world seems to be a better and better one.
I love it so much, not being held to one instance, or even technology.
this post was submitted on 03 Oct 2025
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What happened this time?
c/Risa@lemmy.dbzer0.com was created as an alternative to TenForward due to 10F being on Lemmy.world. 10F is still awesome and I want nothing but success for it. I, however, can't really in good conscience add to lemmy.world anymore. Why? This Post (and, importantly, the updates) explain.
tl;dr is that for months a mod of /c/world, /c/politics and /c/news has been abusing his position and violating the LW ToS left right and center. People have been posting about it but I missed it until recently and started to look into it. I made a post (the linked one above) questioning what was going on. In it, two LW admins responded saying that they didn't want JL to be the face of Lemmy.world/Piefed.world and that they've talked to him in the past about his behavior and how its unacceptable. Also said that they'd been talking about him for days before I made the post about what they should do.
In the time since, essentially nothing has happened. The issue was that his moderation style was abusive but he was removed from a team that didn't seem to be doing much. He's still the mod of those communities, including spreading active misinformation and suppressing anything proving him wrong. So I left Lemmy.world and set up on another instance (that's the first update in the above link). The admins made a public post to their announcement community (that's the second update) a little while later saying that they had removed him from the team and were looking into ways to remove him as moderator. By this point it had been 2 weeks since they had started talking about him and him being hyper problematic. They were still doing nothing. It's been 5 days since they made that post and nothing has happened.
I'm just disappointed to fuck that they keep dragging their feet on removing a moderator who abuses the shit out of everyone and bans people, even to the point where they openly say he's wrong. To the point where hours after they say he's wrong, the mod doubled down on the exact same issue publicly and refused to back down.
There's no justification for the complete inaction. My issue went primarily from Jordan to the admins for doing very little.
what misinformation did he share?
Elaborated on in the link.
nothing in the link seems to describe the misinformation; only that there was misinformation.
My apologies, I thought I had edited that original post to add another link. This one.
The tl;dr of that would be that the political terms one government uses is not universal. A Canadian was talking about Canadian politics on a post about Canadian politicians made to /c/World@Lemmy.world, their World News community. The mod in question, Jordan, removed a comment that had said a particular person was not a Member of Government. This is a term that is equivalent to Member of Administration. Jordan, unaware of this, removed the dude claiming that "It is misinformation to call this person not a Member of Government". It was not misinformation, just a misunderstanding. What became active misinformation was Jordan doubling down for months, even doing so in the major call out post that I made a couple hours after an admin specifically said that he was wrong.
Misinformation could apply to either the constant insistence that the user was engaging in misinformation as Jordan is definitely trying to reframe that reality but also the insistence that the term does not exist. It's an American pushing an American narrative of a Canadian situation and that shit sent me over the fucking edge.
I, a Canadian, was part of a similar discussion. I, like JL, thought that stance was crazy. Unlike him, I did some research, saw that was a common definition in Canada, so clarified what I meant in my original comment and then stopped using that term for Canadian elected officials. I'm not sure why he chose his route.
Because he is incapable of admitting fault. He is a narcissistic American with his head shoved so far up his ass he could use his belly button as a porthole.
strange hill to die on
Someone is going to.
That being said, no. Don't really think that being actively against misinformation and moderator abuse is that strange of a hill to die on
Sometimes when people are knee-deep in controversies, they forget to make them properly explainable to outsiders. I did a little deep dive to find this post.
I hate the .world janitors, they feel the closest to reddit mods.
But I still can't find a community that isn't equally as horrible in its own way.
World announced that JL isn't a mod anymore a few days ago, has something else happened?
They removed him from some pointless mod discussion team or something but kept him on as a moderator for news and worldnews, the two communities where most of his shitty moderation happens. Their announcement was worded in a way that made it easy to think he was removed from moderation when skimmed though.
From his profile:
Moderates
World News@lemmy.world
News@lemmy.world
politics@lemmy.world
Comic Books@lemmy.world
Portland@lemmy.world
THE POLICE PROBLEM@lemmy.world
Business@lemmy.world
Keep Track@lemmy.world
Thanks for the clarification
I double checked in case they did anything more, and no. The list of communities he is still moderating has been added to my prior comment.