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I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

"We should defederate from everything which does not agree with my .world view and create a giant centralized echo chamber"!

Why the fuck does every .world user suddenly want Lemmy to be Reddit?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We should defederate from everything which does not agree with my .world view

I will try to formulate this as well as I can:

"One should not give a platform to instances which don't give a platform to others."

Examples (based on hexbear):

  • in some communities you get banned for voting the wrong way --> other instances don't practise banning for votes

  • in some communities you get banned for being "reactionary" (that is, factual - Wikipedia would get banned just as quick) --> other instances only ban bigots, not people who politely disagree with locals

  • in some communities, there is no obvious recourse to get a ban reviewed and reversed --> on other instances, there is a metacommunity about management or instructions about how to challenge a ban

The result: certain instances are granted a platform by others, but aren't granting a platform to "foreigners" in return. And management habits in some places are straight from North Korea.

Defederating from an echo chamber doesn't make your instance an echo chamber, unless you follow up by adopting the policies of the echo chamber you defederated from.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Personally I would like to be able to talk to people with different views, in a civil manner. But Lemmy.ml doesn't seem to want that. If you post something that they don't like (even if it's a very moderate view and is expressed in a completely civil way) then they ban you. They seem to really hate moderate people.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Most of the users saying this went around screaming the word Tankie all over the place on .ml.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I got instance banned for saying federal democratic republics are a form of democracy.

Edit: I also don't care. I never expected M-Ls to do anything besides M-L things and they don't owe me anything.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Modlogs are public, everyone can see why you were banned.

Also no ml would disagree with that, here's Lenin explaining the difference between a capitalist democracy and a workers democracy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Everyone can see why the mod said they were banned. If you believe the mod logs, I was banned from 196 for "supporting genocide"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

If you believe in modlogs, then drag was banned from [email protected] for "trolling", which is what a trans person explaining their pronouns is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

To be fair, to me (a 30-something gay dude from EU) what you posted here in the screenshot looks like taking a piss and trolling.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Trolls who pretend to be trans are only threatening if you feel threatened by trans people. When you react with hostility, you feed and empower them. When you restrict the rights of trans people under the suspicion a troll might use those rights, the trolls win.

If you practice radical acceptance and only draw the line at causing harm to other people, then trolls can't do anything bad to you.

Drag isn't a troll, but drag is bewildered at the logic that we should stop trolls by doing exactly what they want. That's never going to work. You're just gonna end up hurting real trans people like drag. And you're gonna send a message to other queer people that if they step one inch out of line, you'll be ready to call them a troll too. Who on earth does that actually help?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No, drag's name is Dragon Rider.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably shouldn't support genocide then ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I would love for you to find the comment where I did that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Which is why you can see them do it exactly as stated. "American propaganda" lol.

Have fun hanging around people who ban people for disagreeing with the party line of a dead ideology that had its corpse cannibalized by fascists. That will surely lead to the second revolution.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can you point at me where it says you were banned for "American propaganda"? I tried ctrl+f "propaganda" to see what you were saying that got you banned and nothing came up.

Nobody is going to disagree that a bourgeois democracy is a democracy, only that bourgeois democracies represent the people instead of bourgeoisie.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That'd be the part where they hid the actual comments and mod responses on all the .ml communities. Interesting that it rewrites the history when they decide to undo it, I hadn't actually noticed it expired.

So weird and uncharacteristic of M-Ls to do something shitty and then delete the records and then lie about the cause because it makes them look bad...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

.world communities do the same thing, just banning someone for "misinformation" looks much less suspicious than showing posts of me linking people the Wikipedia article on Tienanmen Square and describing what the article said and surrounding context instead of joining the china-bad circle-jerk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

There's a pretty big difference between arguing the details of something as controversial as Tianamen and instance banning anyone that doesn't use the Party-approved definition of democracy even though they clearly referred to a specific form of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Moderate in what context? Moderate about Jews in 1938 Germany? Jews at some point in time before that? Black people in 1800s Amerikkka. Black people in today's amerikkka?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Being banned means less of a problem for you - got a reason to ignore them and let them echo chamber however they want.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

every accusation is a confession.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

I've never banned anybody for saying their view, and I don't think I'd support someone being banned for saying their view, as long as they're being respectful, and as long as they're not advocating anything criminal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Eh..... Lemmy is already a lot like reddit in the very beginning, just more extreme.

I think a big problem with Lemmy is that even the large instances only have a few terminally online posters, so a lot of the communities get warped by those posters biases.

Right now Hexbear is having a little internal conflict between the mods and some posters over the harassment of lgbtq and POC. The mods started out handing out temporary bans to offenders and then people started freaking out because no one was posting shit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

"Different world views" isn't a problem, the problem is users espousing repugnent "world views" and being assholes.

Pretending like we have to put up with other users' repulsive, insane "ideas" and bullying behavior in our spaces is laughable. Bigots, fascists, and actual tankies can fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

You probably have some views that are repugnent to me, and vice versa. That's freedom of speech and political pluralism.

being assholes.

This though, I agree just ban that user.