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  • Look, I am a community moderator here on Lemmy, and I agree with OP. There are a lot of moderators, whether they are on Reddit, Lemmy, or anywhere else, that should simply not be moderators.

    I moderate the cars community (not the disney movie, like the main automotive community) on my home instance. Just me and one other moderator, its a pretty low traffic community. There was a third moderator who was dormant. Suddenly, that dormant account becomes active, reposts what the other active moderator had posted, then deleted the other moderators posts as “duplicates.” They then proceeded to remove both me and the other moderator so that they were the only community moderator. I don’t really mind; being a moderator isn’t really something I want and my home instance admins had to ask me like, 4 times to be a moderator for that community. Anyway, I messaged the admins saying like, “hey, this other account suddenly became active after like a year of inactivity and while what they are posting isn’t against the rules or anything, I don’t know if this was from you guys or if you guys know about it.” Needless to say, the admins took some actions including removing that moderator and reinstating me and the other moderator.







  • My problem is about wrongful censorship.

    This is certainly the problem. How do you define “wrongful censorship?” Is it the same as how I define it, or how Jimmy Downthestreet defines it? If those definitions are all different, whose definition is the correct one? Who objectively defines what censorship is good or bad? How far is too far? Does that apply to all cultures and societies around the world, or just yours?

    Also, Lemmy is exactly like Reddit. You’ll get banned for exactly the same thing, just a different flavor.





  • That’s basically the point of a tariff; to discourage people from buying foreign goods and to encourage production and sale of domestic goods instead.

    The only times it doesn’t work correctly is when too much of the general populace refuses to do the work necessary to create production, domestic regulations make production locally too prohibitively expensive, and/or when domestic product manufacturers raise their prices to match the new higher tariffed prices, effectively cancelling the intended benefits of a tariff.

    The USA right now is kinda seeing the effects of all 3. It has been so reliant on imports for such a long time that trying to cut that off all at once is having a more pronounced effect than if its import reliance was curtailed more slowly and started a while ago. And since there is no regulation (AFAIK) saying that domestic good prices cannot raise to match imported good prices when tariffed, that doesn’t help either. Businesses want the most money, and if all the other options for a product are $150 and their domestic one is only $50, without law saying they can’t match those other prices businesses feel like they are leaving $100 on the table.