Since I was curious I checked the actual amount of upvotes and downvotes of my post on mbin. It got 56 upvotes and 66 downvotes according to them since I was curious. Seems I hurt their little ego when I mentioned blocking their instance.
goes into a ML space
Criticizes ML
Gets banned
Here’s how you bitch about their modding.
“They instance wide banned me for saying a federal democratic republic is, by definition, a form of democracy. I’m not surprised by that, MLs gonna ML, but I am kind of annoyed it wasn’t for me calling Stalin a red fascist who killed the Revolution.”
I haven’t used lemmy up until this point. They pose as a general purpose instance and are the 2nd largest lemmy instance at that. I knew the lemmy devs had their preferences but I didn’t know they would let it effect their moderating so strongly.
It happens to everyone and is probably going to be the downfall of lemmy
hilarious thing is that they think banning a user is a win. Yeah you guys sure dunked on that random guy by banning him
Yeah, I got banned from some random community there for suggesting that Russia wasn’t exactly the most privacy-friendly country. To be fair, this was after a lengthy discussion where I essentially suggested the mod had an unhealthy obsession with the main dev of a FOSS project (/c/privacy, and the project was GrapheneOS), but the reason they gave was for the comment about Russia.
It wasn’t an instance-wide ban, just a community ban, but that motivated me to unsub from enough of the lemmy.ml communities that I’m unlikely to get banned. And this wasn’t one of the big admins, just some power-hungry reddit-refugee that was disliked on Reddit for doing exactly the same thing (obsession with GrapheneOS dev, not the Russia thing).
Yeah they could definitely be a bit more upfront about it. Pity the poor “libertarians” who wander in from time to time thinking FOSS=free speech absolutism
Yup, that’s me, sort of. I consider myself libertarian and hoped Lemmy would be a free speech bastion (within reason, I respect healthy moderation, but any topic should be fair game for those who are considerate and constructive). But Lemmy.ml really doesn’t like constructive criticism of China or Russia, and that’s just not okay with me.
So that’s why I’m here. I’m fine abiding by the rules of this instance, and generally speaking I don’t have issues expressing well-sourced arguments that may be a bit unpopular. I get a bunch of downvotes if that opinion is unpopular (even if well-supported by empirical evidence), but I haven’t been banned for it. I did get banned from lemmy.ml/c/privacy for posting a well-sourced argument that Russia may not be the most privacy-friendly country in the world.
They need to pick whether or not they’re “an ML instance.” Clearly being one while going “nuh uh we’re just general” is partially to blame for this “confusion.” (Of course I know they do it on purpose to fuel their victim complex and attempt to normalize their propaganda and extremist positions rather than relegate them to their own purpose built communities.)
“general purpose instance” yeah thats the big problem.
if you wanted us to be on your side you shouldn’t have posted screenshots of you just being obnoxious
Waaaaah ML bad ML bad ML bad
Gets banned
Makes whine post about it
Sounds familiar
Waaaaah LW bad LW bad LW bad
Gets banned
Makes whine post about it
LemmyWorld bans people for saying Biden and Harris are complicit in Genocide. A little different than whining about the instance you are on.
Yeah I saw you repeat that lie in LW communities many times and you were never banned for repeating it, even when mods were responding to you directly so we know it wasn’t just that they didn’t see it
