Hi there.
A short introduction: This is an alt account. I’m a moderator here who has been unhappy with the state of news/political discussions here for a long time. The admins have kindly given me the opportunity to see if we can make some improvement the community here.
We will be doing some major revision of the rules left by the previous moderators and will use discussions in this thread as feedback on the direction we should take our community.
This will be an open discussion on the state of our community, the rules and our moderation practices. Feel free to give your inputs.
My goal is to foster thoughtful discussion in our community, and not let this place be a replica of r/politics.
First order of business, immediate rule change.
On !politics@lemmy.world, effectively immediately, we will no longer restrict political discussion to the politics of the United States of America. Discussion regarding of the state of politics from around the world is now welcome.
I will leave this pinned for 1-2 weeks for our team to take feedback and make our proposals then.
I wouldn’t be surprised if that is an admin disguised as a regular user. I share your concerns and I have already started to look elsewhere. This feels even worse than reddit.
Yep, and that’s really hard to do. I’ve deleted all my comments on politics and have moved away.
I made an account on lemmy.today (US server that doesn’t block instances or accounts) so in a few days I’ll transition to that and delete everything over here.
I still want to block threads, but I’m glad you found one that suits you.
I can assure you that I was not and am not a LW admin.
Why post from an alt account then?