I cannot repost what Flying Squid was posting here, because it involved highly disturbing and dangerous content, including:
Content Warning
Graphic content, harassment, self-harm, and suicidal ideation, which I reported immediately.
While this behavior is shocking, it’s not completely out of left field, as members of this community and platform will already be familiar with their behavior. Flying Squid has long been regarded as one of the least productive and most problematic mods on all of Lemmy, often picking fights and abusing their mod privileges. I view this change as a positive step for Squid, .world, and Lemmy as a whole.
He still has to come back about an arbitrary decision about Canada government terminology that the majority of Canadians users consulted refuted: https://feddit.org/post/5761475/4078668
That’s an example of what I mean about the fake objectivity. It’s hard to explain exactly, but he shows sometimes a sort of defaulting to some kind of “officialness” or higher authority that’s figuring everything out, that he speaks on behalf of, that doesn’t actually exist.
It’s okay to just be a person, and use judgement, and be wrong sometimes. People will respect your authority more, not less, if you do it that way.
I’m not trying to bash the guy, I slightly bad even about talking about the topic. I think he’s doing some hard work at an important role for keeping everything functioning. I do disagree with his judgement in some areas of moderation, though, and I think when you sign up to take forcible control over some area of people’s experience, you also sign up for having your judgement talked about even if it’s not complimentary to you.