The more people see the engagement, the more chance of them asking “what is that?” It won’t be long until the apps are better, and links to articles could be less likely to get suppressed than migration memes.
I can only speak for myself, but I only saw Mastodon as viable after I started being exposed to the content there…
Just out of curiosity. I’ve been banned from Reddit about 10 times now. I suspect, but it has never been confirmed, that it is because I am able to articulate various logical arguments against “transgenderism” and gender ideology in general.
Is kbin.social a place where I can speak freely or will I be banned here as well?
Still learning kbin, so I’m not sure how to create a thread. Just making a comment here so get a quick answer, if possible.
I’m sure you were banned 10 times cause you “are able to articulate logical arguments against transgenderism” and not being a hateful annoying cunt. I tip my fedora to you. I think some better advice for you is stop obsessing over trans people to such a degree that your comments get you banned from a platform 10 times. But to answer your question there are some instances that will not ban you for that stuff, but most of the big ones are moderated and tend to be left leaning so you probably will be banned for transphobia.
Come on now…
I also strongly disagree with what this user says and I get your anger, but is it really necessary to be insulting? I feel like simply downvoting and otherwise ignoring it would be healthier for this community at large.
Let’s not make this place like reddit or any bigger social network, please.
It depends on the moderators of the “magazine” (community) you are posting in. For example if you post your topic in my Pomeranians community, I might remove your post and give you the reasons for removal, but I probably won’t ban you unless you go off topic repeatedly.
Another type of banning is called “instance ban”. Instance bans are when a user is banned from an entire instance by the instance administrator. This means that the user can no longer access any of the communities or content on that instance. However, the user can still access other instances, unless they are also banned from those instances. Instance bans can be temporary or permanent, depending on the severity of the violation and the discretion of the administrator.
kbin.social instance administrators seem to be reasonable people. So I doubt that you would get banned if you follow the rules.
Lemmy.ml on the other hand…
Yes, reddit bans people for hate speech. And why are you going to every sub and thread talking about this? It’s almost like it’s not just a casual conversation topic but you’re actively spreading hate propaganda. Gee I wonder WHY you keep getting banned.
Maybe don’t make political talking points from a hate group your entire personality.
dw bro, we aint chasin off smart-talkin intellectuals like yerself
On the other hand, people who want to start inflammatory political/sociological arguments in places where they don’t belong - like this thread - will find themselves facing a crowd of people with pitchforks, regardless of whether or not the person is well-spoken or the argument well-articulated.
That’s the tactic that got me started on Reddit. For a while before the dreaded relaunch, many of the links on Digg were just linking to Reddit posts.
I’ve been kind of suggesting the same thing a few times inside of posts. I’m coming at it from the perspective of having had to do a lot of in-person recruiting for voluntary activities, mentoring, and teaching – you cannot tell people things like “you should just join lemmy/kbin” – you have to wait for them to ask “how do I join lemmy/kbin?”
That’s okay! It just means that the focus when introducing people to it has to be “here’s what you’re missing”, positive about where they could go rather than negative about where they are.
It’s an uphill battle trying to argue with people who do have a point about it being harder to use (we shouldn’t gaslight people), but they’re also saying what the audience is wanting to hear because it gives them permission to do nothing.
How many are just admin accounts or sock puppets for some agenda or another anyway?
Consider focusing on the positive – link to specific posts on these systems that are objectively worth going to participate in. They don’t need an account to read and enjoy.
Then, if they discover that they wish that they could participate in the thread – that is the time to explain that they should just join whatever instance the post they really enjoyed was on for starters. They’ll realize that they can see magazines from other instances, probably after a week when they realize other instance domain names are showing up on things. Then some nice person explains what’s going on.
And now they’ve convinced themselves it’s worth joining…
That‘s actually a smart idea. Thank you
I’m already doing it as I can and sometime getting downvote, but I’m fine.