Iām done, Iāve been banned for expressing a different opinion (without insulting or personally attacking anyone), Iāve been accused of evading a ban with multiple accounts (this is my only account Iāve ever had on any lemmy instance), Iāve had people selectively ignore my comments and accuse me of things which I never said, and Iāve had people ignore valid criticisms and keep attacking me.
Reddit has many issues with trolls, one-sided discussion, and just general bullshit, but many Lemmy instances are way worse. The newfound freedom of Lemmy has attracted many extremists, from both sides, and many of them are moderators, who are more than happy to remove any contrarian opinions. This results in discussions being echo chambers
Hold upā¦ If this is your one and only Lemmy account, and itās bannedā¦ How are you making this post?
According to the modlogs: the only action ever taken against you by a mod or admin was having a single post removed. I donāt agree with the reason that it broke rule 1 thoughā¦ I donāt agree with what you said because itās misinformed, but what you said was not racist.
So youāre lying either about not having other accounts and evading a ban, or about how youāve been banned or how often youāve had content removed.
Modlog is weird. There is a possibility heās been banned from an instance and thatās what he meant.
When I was banned from StarTrek.Website I had no idea. It didnāt show in Lemmy.world logs, only ST.W ones
Edit: Yep. He was banned from lemmy.ml. Funny enough, that should actually improve his lemmy experience.
I couldnāt agree more (Also, for formality: I dislike you)
Anyway, this wrong loser is right: If youāre not going to vibe with the place, itās not a big deal if youāre not welcomed. The beauty of the fediverse is that the admin of blahaj, who is quite open about their zero tolerance of nontolerance policy, does not have the capability to ban you from lemmy.
Like, if you were dating a chick who you werenāt compatible with, why the hell would you want to stick around? Accept the incompatibility and move on.
As a leftist I absolutely concur with your assessment. The only time I go to .ML is on accident. And Iām usually down voted. Though I do get a good chuckle on the off instance Iām not.
Same experience here. Leftist who has studied political science and economics. I have very gently corrected some of the century-old, outdated leftist dogma on .ml and get nothing but bans for it.
They have pretty much been completely hijacked by right wing trolls, and itās frankly incredible that the few remaining actual leftists canāt see it.
Seems like a pretty objective open minded comment to me, I wonder what they replied to.
I looked up rule 1 if lemmy.ml: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
The code of conduct is that of Lemmy org, I never read it till now and Iām very disappointed by the next part: āRemarks that moderators find inappropriate, whether listed in the code of conduct or not, are also not allowed.ā. Basically total mod discretion, so by extension, ārule 1ā of lemmy.ml also boils down to total mod discretion.
According to the code of conduct, thereās also supposed to be first warnings, temporary bans and the chance for repeals according to the code of conduct. Which does sound nice, but I wonder if itās also done in practice in some Lemmy communities. It seems pretty hard to provide a system for this that is not based on happenstance. Does anyone have experience with this?
Lemmy.world has defederated from Lemmy.ml but even before I moved over here, I had been avoiding them on my old instance. Why? They were removing posts with no notification and had banned me with no notification or warning. What was the post? A Jimmy Neutron meme. āThis is my first gay character!ā āDisney, this is your 14th first gay characterā. My title said something like āItās always the first in China when theyāre removed before airingā. What was the reason? Rule 1 of the site as a whole. I talked with another very heavy poster and he had stuff removed as well with no warning. Also had a dicey conversation with an admin. Just gave up and started avoiding it. I donāt think I ever got permanently banned from there (although I did from Hexbear for āperjeryā) but if I did I wouldnāt have cared much.
