Original post here: https://hexbear.net/post/3856299?scrollToComments=false
I think we have a general path forward based on community feedback. “We see you, we hear you!”
I went ahead and unpinned the old post. I’m pinning this one for now and will edit this post when I wake up from eepy time. I had a very mid week and have no particular alarm set so be on look out. Love y’all and I’m amped for my first announcement post since coming back. :)
What? Yeah Carcosa said they lied, that tracks completely with what they’re saying, I’ve already talked to this here
It doesn’t make carcosa look duplicitous. It makes carcosa look like somebody who is trying to convince somebody to help them, it’s pretty standard fare when you talk to someone who is hostile to you. I do it at work from time to time.
@tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com put it pretty well here too
I no longer really trust Carcosa anymore because I find it hard to believe that anyone would think that other people, especially people hostile and distrustful of you like liberal and fascist admins of a shitty Reddit clone, would fall for such a transparent ruse. Hostile admins would automatically assume Carcosa is full of shit anyways on account of them being liberals and fascists hostile to Hexbear as a socialist website. And even if I can be made to trust Carcosa again, I certainly can no longer trust Carcosa’s judgment. Like, based on what Carcosa said, they basically never bother running through this ruse with the other admins of this website. So Carcosa lied to other lemmy admins without telling the other Hexbear admins?
Frankly, I find that extraordinarily hard to believe. A much more sensible series of events is that the ruse was thought of and collectively decided upon by all the admins and Carcosa was made the emissary due to their reputation as “the reasonable Hexbearian” among the rest of the Fediverse. Carcosa saying it was all their idea and stepping down is Carcosa falling on their sword on behalf of the other admins so us unwashed sicko masses don’t grab our pitchforks and blame the rest of the admins.
Whatever the case, what’s done is done.
That’s fair. It’s not nice to see someone you (used to) trust lying. I’m not trying to convince you and I don’t think you’re trying to convince me either, we’re just sharing our thoughts.[1] I’ve personally been in similar situations wrt being the middleperson between a lot of groups and having to try to manage everything. It lead to me doing a lot of the same stuff.
I don’t know if carcosa expected it to work, but I trust that carcosa hoped it would and that they ended up calculating that the positive outcome was worth risking the most negative outcome. I’m not saying it’s a good thing to do, but I’m saying it’s understandable and completely rational. Carcosa acknowledged their mistake and offered to step down, which I really do not think they should do. It was a mistake, but we all make mistakes.
No idea why I’m saying this, but I felt the need to. You’re nice and I enjoy this interaction, thank you ↩︎