The admins finally responded after a few days, but by then I had already removed the other user as a mod (the method to do so is a bit hidden).
Currently there are two mods, myself and @absolutebeginner@lemmy.ml who created this community, but has since deleted all their posts and hasn't posted again in years. In order to remove a mod though you need to click into a post they made. With no posts, I can't remove absolutebeginner even if I wanted to.
What are you talking about? I suggested you should talk to the community and if everyone is cool with it then we can make you a mod. The issue is that our autonomy was undermined due to the mistake, and it can be corrected by you demoding yourself and making a post asking the community if they are OK adding you as a mod.
Mods on Lemmy don't have permissions to remove other mods. You need to demod yourself, or an admin needs to remove you.
I think it would be totally reasonable to make a post and ask the active members there what they think about you becoming a mod. We've been having conversations there on what we want the community to be, and I've been trying to empower everyone to give input. So, suddenly seeing a new mod with no community input runs counter to that.
Also, regardless of the federation issue, it is concerning that the admins did not verify that the community was abandoned, when simply clicking on my account would have quickly shown it was not.
Process question: As I am a mod and active on /c/Portland and was not checked in with, what process is being used to evaluate things like this? I would have been fine chatting with BarterClub, but we have been trying to have community discussions on how the place should be ran and what sort of content fits. Now suddenly there is a new mod and we weren't consulted!?
It would have been cool to be included in this. I am a mod over there, and I've been active including posting on the community in the past couple days.
To be clear: c/Portland was certainly not dead or abandoned and had many active posts and participation in posts and comments from myself as a mod.
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I wonder how the requirement for having half the pumps be attended still will affect overnight self-service? One of the big benefits of self service is you can just get gas pretty much any time.
You keep implying that any "nuanced take" contains unverified claims, but you already said that my take (which I consider more nuanced than the straw-men takes I listed) doesn't. You just believe it doesn't warrant US aggression toward China. Hey, I agree. I have no delusions that my take is going to stop US aggression more than the fact that I ate toast this morning will. My nuanced takes didn't stop the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but neither did my organizing, marching, and shutting down the city I live in when the bombs fell. GWB literally just said "he didn't care about protests".
This thread is literally the most I've ever written or spoken about the Uyghurs, and probably the most I've criticized China this year. It was literally a response to someone posting a list of claims where I called for considering that a lot of it is filtered through the US propaganda machine.
I honestly have better things to do now. If you want to cancel me for saying China isn't perfect and some Uyghurs exist who are unhappy with China, then by all means do so I guess. I'm going to go and actually work on a project that helps change the material reality in the community I live in.
I don't use the word "tankie" personally. I find it over simplifies the position of many communists. Yes I straw-manned a fake ML take just I staw-manned a fake anarchist take, because I was trying to say that's those staw-men are how people often argue about this. The whole concept of anarchists treating both the US and China equally in the matter is a straw-man. No anarchist that I know of is organizing efforts in Xinjiang to fight China. While pretty much every anarchist I know in the US spends hours every week organizing efforts to fight the US in one way or another.
You keep claiming I'm saying something I'm not which is what is annoying to me. My entire point is that you are creating better propaganda for the US imperialist machine than a take of "some Uyghurs claim oppression" ever could. You make any claim that the West is producing propaganda on the subject with goals of imperial aggression seem childish and not worth listening to. You berate people who ostensibly agree with you, but they just don't want to start flying the flag of China outside their house either.
I believe that nothing is beyond criticism, including (and especially) myself, just because there is a worse evil out there. If that's what you believe, then cool I guess. Just please be consistent and stop criticizing me (an anarchist who is post-civ and believes fighting the West is important) as I am a lesser evil relative to the West, and Western hegemony is the #1 enemy.
I literally just said that part of my nuanced take is: "I would fight against a US imperial attack (militarily, economically, or otherwise) on China." And "The US getting involved sure wouldn't help anything."
But OK.
Awesome, I was hoping you would want to as you are a regular poster. :)