I was threatened with a ban because I commented on a Harry Potter book being burned, saying that it was ironic that crazy Fundamentalists (who believe magic is real and evil) and people who don’t support TERF assholes somehow share this one, random cause.
The reason for the removal and the threat of a ban was something to the extent of “Hurr-Durr, mah both sides” which… oh, my head, the bad reading comprehension there.
It was not on any LGBTQ+ or trans specific instance, either. It was, like, memes (edit: it was 196).
Point is, there’s dumb people who want to abuse power everywhere, in every group, and always will be. Even the best causes and best groups. Especially in the worst causes and worst groups, though. I’M NOT BOTH-SIDES-ING, DON’T BAN ME.
I looked up your comment in the modlog just to see; if it’s the one I see, you got banned from lemmy.ml which is a little different. They make no pretense of fairness.
That said, based on the comment that’s fuckin ridiculous. I don’t agree with you, but I can’t understand the point of a communication network where as soon as someone busts out an opinion the operators don’t like, they remove them from the community. It’s like lighting a big red beacon “MY OPINIONS CANNOT TOLERATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO DISAGREE.” It’s one thing if you’re insulting some person in the channel or something, but it was clearly just your geopolitical opinion.
Then again, it is lemmy.ml; it’s run by people who idolize leaders who imprison or torture people who try to disagree, so count yourself lucky that they’re not in charge of anything beyond their little server I guess. I tried to debate with the tankies when I first showed up here and at this point my approach is just to unsubscribe and move on.
Edit: Just because I reread this and I’m still irritated at it somehow. My breaking point with lemmy.ml was when I was arguing with some people, and someone else showed up in the thread and I was talking with him, and the people I was arguing with were using the new guy’s opinions as some kind of “gotcha” against me. Like, this guy believes this, and you’re supporting him, so clearly you’re on his side (I wasn’t), and you agree with him (I definitely didn’t), and we can hold you responsible for anything he says because you’re not attacking him.
Like, they could not process the idea that I might be talking to someone who had a different opinion than me, and it could be okay. They thought if he said flip, and I thought it was flop, I had to instantly start screaming at him about how flop was the way, and everything else had to stop, and if i didn’t do that I wasn’t a good flop-supporter. And so they seemed like they legitimately thought that if I wasn’t doing that it meant I secretly supported flip, because that was what they would do, is just scream (figuratively speaking) at anyone who didn’t agree with them completely on everything they considered important, until they “won” (i.e. the person gave up and left).
I realized there was nothing for me there, and unsubscribed from anything world-event-related on lemmy.ml immediately, and so far it’s proven to be a good decision.
I got a 3 day ban from news on .ml for posting a link to Media Bias Fact Check. I wasn’t OP, just posted the link with a summary when someone asked about OP’s source. I would imagine OP got sent for Re-Education.
The admins on world are trolls, I don’t know about the lead dude though. I’ve been either banned or shadow banned there, my stuff isn’t showing up except to the original poster sometimes. It’s very odd. I’m almost fully switched over to not posting, but sometimes I do by accident. World sucks.
It absolutely has those vibes, I wonder if it’s owned by reddit or maybe meta? They seem to be doing things I think they would do. It could just be someone who wants to start their own reddit too. All just guesses, but I’m done with them.
Ah. I’m still a little curious whether it was for actual opinions or for being a jerk or etc. For what it’s worth I got banned from tons of stuff on reddit; I complained in one sub about being banned from another and quoted the thing that got me banned, and everyone started falling out of their chairs saying holy shit dude I’m not surprised, that message is a fuckin doozy. Like okay then, tell me why it’s wrong, don’t just shriek and run away and grab the banhammer.
It’s a tough thing. I do get the necessity to police people doing personal attacks or blatant racism or spam to keep the community OK, but I don’t get how it seems like it always escalates to the list of allowed opinions and disallowed opinions.
Now do lemmy.world
Lol there’s a difference?
You probably won’t get banned or rate limited
I was threatened with a ban because I commented on a Harry Potter book being burned, saying that it was ironic that crazy Fundamentalists (who believe magic is real and evil) and people who don’t support TERF assholes somehow share this one, random cause.
The reason for the removal and the threat of a ban was something to the extent of “Hurr-Durr, mah both sides” which… oh, my head, the bad reading comprehension there.
It was not on any LGBTQ+ or trans specific instance, either. It was, like, memes (edit: it was 196).
Point is, there’s dumb people who want to abuse power everywhere, in every group, and always will be. Even the best causes and best groups. Especially in the worst causes and worst groups, though. I’M NOT BOTH-SIDES-ING, DON’T BAN ME.
You literally made me laugh out loud. Well done.
I’m glad you found it funny, because apparently a mod didn’t.
tbf 196 is basically a trans instance
I’ve gotten a ban from world news on world, they’re basically reddit at this point.
I looked up your comment in the modlog just to see; if it’s the one I see, you got banned from lemmy.ml which is a little different. They make no pretense of fairness.
That said, based on the comment that’s fuckin ridiculous. I don’t agree with you, but I can’t understand the point of a communication network where as soon as someone busts out an opinion the operators don’t like, they remove them from the community. It’s like lighting a big red beacon “MY OPINIONS CANNOT TOLERATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO DISAGREE.” It’s one thing if you’re insulting some person in the channel or something, but it was clearly just your geopolitical opinion.
Then again, it is lemmy.ml; it’s run by people who idolize leaders who imprison or torture people who try to disagree, so count yourself lucky that they’re not in charge of anything beyond their little server I guess. I tried to debate with the tankies when I first showed up here and at this point my approach is just to unsubscribe and move on.
Edit: Just because I reread this and I’m still irritated at it somehow. My breaking point with lemmy.ml was when I was arguing with some people, and someone else showed up in the thread and I was talking with him, and the people I was arguing with were using the new guy’s opinions as some kind of “gotcha” against me. Like, this guy believes this, and you’re supporting him, so clearly you’re on his side (I wasn’t), and you agree with him (I definitely didn’t), and we can hold you responsible for anything he says because you’re not attacking him.
Like, they could not process the idea that I might be talking to someone who had a different opinion than me, and it could be okay. They thought if he said flip, and I thought it was flop, I had to instantly start screaming at him about how flop was the way, and everything else had to stop, and if i didn’t do that I wasn’t a good flop-supporter. And so they seemed like they legitimately thought that if I wasn’t doing that it meant I secretly supported flip, because that was what they would do, is just scream (figuratively speaking) at anyone who didn’t agree with them completely on everything they considered important, until they “won” (i.e. the person gave up and left).
I realized there was nothing for me there, and unsubscribed from anything world-event-related on lemmy.ml immediately, and so far it’s proven to be a good decision.
I got a 3 day ban from news on .ml for posting a link to Media Bias Fact Check. I wasn’t OP, just posted the link with a summary when someone asked about OP’s source. I would imagine OP got sent for Re-Education.
That’s this account, I’ve also been banned from the world news .world community on a different account.
The admins on world are trolls, I don’t know about the lead dude though. I’ve been either banned or shadow banned there, my stuff isn’t showing up except to the original poster sometimes. It’s very odd. I’m almost fully switched over to not posting, but sometimes I do by accident. World sucks.
World really is reddit 2.0, with all the idiocy best left behind.
It absolutely has those vibes, I wonder if it’s owned by reddit or maybe meta? They seem to be doing things I think they would do. It could just be someone who wants to start their own reddit too. All just guesses, but I’m done with them.
Ah. I’m still a little curious whether it was for actual opinions or for being a jerk or etc. For what it’s worth I got banned from tons of stuff on reddit; I complained in one sub about being banned from another and quoted the thing that got me banned, and everyone started falling out of their chairs saying holy shit dude I’m not surprised, that message is a fuckin doozy. Like okay then, tell me why it’s wrong, don’t just shriek and run away and grab the banhammer.
It’s a tough thing. I do get the necessity to police people doing personal attacks or blatant racism or spam to keep the community OK, but I don’t get how it seems like it always escalates to the list of allowed opinions and disallowed opinions.
I made two similar posts on CasualUK:
The second one got deleted for being NSFW. :/ There was NOTHING sexual in it - I just like the smell of my feet.
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
I banned them first! Checkmate atheists!
The platform is identical to reddit. The users are former reddit users. Of course it’s going to be like reddit.