Congratulations @PugJesus@lemmy.world @LadyButterfly@piefed.blahaj.zone and all the other regular contributors!
Disclaimer: While subscriber count is a poor metric on Lemmy because it’s often inflated with dead accounts, with Monthly Active Users being far superior (in which case most .ml comms have been defeated with the biggest exception being Linux and Privacy (be sure to promote !linux@programming.dev and !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com as the closest contenders!)) it’s an accomplishment when a relatively young comm can still overtake a years-long established comm!
FlyingSquid had a nasty tendency of getting into an argument, and then, when faced with any amount of pushback, threaten a ban if they continued arguing with him.
I’m not a saint myself - I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t really have the temperament for moderation, and I only moderate because of the dual issues of “Lemmy is young, and if I don’t create these comms, they’re not going to be created for a long time” and “Jesus fucking Christ why are there so many goddamn tankies and campists spreading genocide denial??”, but that’s exceptionally poor behavior from a mod.