Well yeah, don’t use ml or hex if you don’t want this stupidity.
ml is a cesspool. It’s best not to even bother engaging in their communities. They’ll ban you for stupid shit. This needs to be made more well known to help break the network effect they have going on with some of their communities.
They didn’t remove it because of the “girl”.
They removed it because “It’s all a simulation” implies that the glory of the Chinese Communist Party isn’t real.
I saw that comment, before it was removed. I thought it was relevant as the post was about misgendering.
I guess it was too friendly and subtle. They needed me to be seething to feel secure about my intentions.
Worth mentioning is the comment had 34 upvotes and 1 down. So it wasn’t exactly controversial, from a community perspective.
Bro, that is lemmy. If you haven’t noticed, that’s how tankies operate here. They don’t just post straight propaganda, they rile you up and make you angry and make you question the way you talk to people, when in fact you did nothing wrong.
This. 100%
They gaslight pretty much everyone that posts there. I only had limited, occasional interactions with that instance and almost every time it was negative. I started to wonder what I was doing that was making me so misunderstood, which was getting me into all kinds of discussions…
Once I figured it out and blocked the entire instance from my profile, I’ve had a lot of interactions on Lemmy and I’m no longer walking on eggshells every time I post a comment.
I’m just grateful that the asshats all converged into a few instances so I can just block the entire instance and have a great time on Lemmy.