yep, posted to !modlog@lemmy.world and it immediately made a downturn 🥲

TIL! pinging @Soullioness@lemmy.world to see if they’re active and/or have thoughts.

cuz yeah my most recent callout post went to !196@lemmy.blahaj.zone and a lot of people got really upset at me for being “off topic” 😓 (it was effective btw, yay!)

ah understandable! thanks for sharing your thoughts and hope you can get some rest :)

Hmm it almost seems like you are responding to a different post? I didn’t really say much about timeliness here. :) This is more about corrupt or inappropriate moderation activity.

Nope not really that wouldn’t be good for my health (:

Appreciate the effort in responding, but I count 20 instances that defederate yours, covering several thousand users. That kind of hobbles the functionality of this as a concept. :/

Yeah, I suppose my idea of a decentralized accountability sublemmy would just help make that process a little more efficient.

Obviously it’s still rough and a mess but I think it’s a fair enough decentralized fit-in for Reddit’s centralized moderation authority.

This would be a perfect solution I think, if most major mods and subs weren’t hosted on .world and .ml.

The conflict of interest is real and intense; I have been told directly that certain problematic .world mod activity cannot be addressed because the mods in question are close friends with instance admins.

Thanks for your thoughts :)

These are valid concerns that could certainly prove problematic without further insight. :) Thanks for sharing.

This is a very myopic and hateful comment, man. People died because of poor crowd control (something that happens at non-religious gatherings too, by the way) and your first instinct is to use terms like “stupid” in relation to these people’s religion. In states where religion is a protected attribute, saying something like this aloud to their families would quite literally be considered harrassment and discrimination.

It is not yet clear what led to the crush. Witnesses said the exit was too narrow and when people were leaving, a fierce dust storm led to confusion and panic, causing many people to become trampled.

You are literally a mod here, so I shouldn’t need to quote this at you but:

Community Rule 4: Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, anti-religious, or ableist will be removed. “Ironic” prejudice is just prejudiced.

Emphasis mine. Quite disappointed to see this, dude. Come on.

Thanks for the slight correction. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I still believe that the “poor/cheap” element is not entirely accurate until further evidence is provided. You yourself point out that it is a matter of cost-benefit analysis, which can be tremendously swayed by land use (noise reduction matters less with lower density) and practical considerations (America is just… really really big).

perchance this is the birth of a future !fuckcars member, here’s hoping, take your time :)

Thank you for sharing! I would be interested in more up-to-date resources if you have them. Additionally, I still believe that the “poor/cheap” element is not entirely accurate until further evidence is provided. You yourself seem to suggest that it is more related to the sheer size of freeways and interstates that make open-graded mixes cost-ineffective, which I agree with.

Pretty dramatic oversimplification that appeals to predetermined biases.

Here is a resource detailing the different types of asphalt mix and their appropriate use cases.

Particularly note the following:

[Open-graded] mixtures should only be used on high- or medium-traffic volume roadways with posted high speeds only.

Which directly refures the idea that using dense-graded asphalt is purely due to “Americans are too poor/cheap.” The benefits of open-graded asphalt mixtures are lost if you apply it to low speed roadways.

No argument against the poor maintenance part though. Cheers 🥯🥛☀️

same reason it’s always raining during funerals

looks at current media cycle

… but is he wrong though? evil seems to be pulling in pretty high ratings these days.

anyway i’l be in my bed, crying quietly.

Sorry man but you have been pretty verbally unkind to me in the past over things not even related to geopolitics or life/death matters. I probably fully match your positions on geopolitics but don’t expect me to relent and say those behaviors have no consequences. :(

Thank you for sharing this man, sorry you have to endure all that. Fuck Trump, fuck dementia frfr. Sending love 💕

some of the vocally anti-biden members of lemmy have been really acerbic in the past and that has carried forward poorly to this date so now there is a lot of animosity towards them even as they are speaking truth.

but yeah i’m really sad. biden’s policy on israel’s genocide cost him michigan, and his refusal to step back might just cost democrats the election. it all snowballs.

precisely. you can’t just ignore articles about the “moronic” things voters are saying, because those “morons” happen to each have a vote. pay attention to them or lose.