Ah yep, I see where this is going now after his post the other day. No thanks, I'll join another NZ community that isn't going to ignore bigotry in service of "free speech" 👋
I was a bit confused about this but have now discovered that the mod user is the same as the justgettingalong user (who must have forgot to switch alias in their comment in this thread).
Interesting that it appears you can have different identities tried to the same account across different instances.
Please feel free to apply for a mod position. We need all sorts of views on the team, and I've received very few applications. Be the change you want to see.
Communities are driven first by the people that join them, then who sticks around. In a setup like this, where anyone can drive by comment from any old instance, you're going to need to ban abusive people or the good users will leave. /r/newzealand had a solid set of rules and for the most part they were consistently applied.
https://god.dailydot.com/bartender-kicks-out-tweets someone linked the nazi bar story the other day, Twitter is fucked for me atm so I can't link the original. Either way, if you don't kick out the shitheads straight away then they become your userbase, and the kicking out has to come from the mods in Lemmy. Downvotes don't do anything here.