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New Moderators needed

I have decided that new moderator (including a new head moderator) are needed for the future of this community. I will step back into the position of moderator that I had previously held. If enough people demand I will consider stepping down completely. I apologize for any harm that I have caused to this community.

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    I wouldn't want to be head mod because I don't think I could commit the time a community like this deserves, but I would consider throwing my hat in the ring for a lesser mod position.

    I've also never moderated a Lemmy community, so there may be some challenges there.

    I think it's important that any new mods understand Link's vision for the community and what it means to create a space free of liberal/capitalist/colonialist apologia and talking points. It's not easy to build up a community like this, but Link did an excellent job IMO of creating a space for discussion of complex topics without ever allowing the direction of conversation to be dictated by either bad faith actors or people ignorant of basic anarchic principles.

    Copying a comment I made deeper in this thread here for visibility

    Not sure why my other comment was removed after being up for several days, but this is clear evidence of a group of people organized on another platform to change this community. Grail and others have admitted as much in this thread and elsewhere.

    I was willing to give kittenzrulz the benefit of the doubt on this, but silencing formerly active members of this community for calling out an obvious op in progress is a step too far. This is no longer a safe space for anarchists since it's been infiltrated at the highest level by those that do not agree with the community's guidelines or original intent.

    To kittenzrulez - I know you reached out to Grail on discord in the immediate aftermath of Their original post on blahaj meta. Have you been colluding with Them since then or even before? No good faith uncompromised moderator of an anarchist space would silence discussion (including evidence) of an active op in progress. Any half well informed anarchist should be able to spot that shit from a mile away and an uncompromised moderator would shut down the offending accounts without prejudice. You chose to do the opposite and it tells me everything I need to know about the state of this community.

    Edit: just checked the modlog and all comments critical of the Grail coalition have been removed from this thread for reason: "conspiracy". Is it suddenly against the rules in an anarchist community to point out people actually conspiring against that community? Seriously kittenzrulez? Have you no historical context for this type of thing?

  • Hi kittenz, I can probably step up as a moderator; buuuut. I haven't moderated any lemmy forums before

    I've heard that there isn't moderation tools on phones?

  • Please step down. I wish you the best, but please for the good of the community and yourself step down and step back.

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