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DragonTypeWyvern ,

goes into a ML space

Criticizes ML

Gets banned

https://midwest.social/pictrs/image/08a5daf0-619f-443f-a2e7-c38d1df76119.jpeg

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.”

mozz ,
@mozz@mbin.grits.dev avatar

Yeah it’s like going to North Korea and bad mouthing the leader and then going to prison

It’s shitty that it is that way, but you can’t exactly be shocked or surprised about it.

I do get it. It’s some bullshit, yes.

timestatic OP ,

I haven’t used lemmy up until this point. They pose 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.

DragonTypeWyvern ,

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

sugar_in_your_tea ,

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.

goat ,

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

sugar_in_your_tea ,

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).

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