It's not fun interacting with them when they often want to engage in ad hominems. This is why I have no interest in the tankie triad.
- I strongly object to silencing trans voices on trans issues, even if there are other trans people who feel differently or even if they are okay with the silence. People are tribal, cis or trans, and of course there is a self-selection effect, where people on blahaj are in favor of the blahaj administration for the same reason people on lemmy.ml or Hexbear are in favor of their instances' administration
- The 196 mods were clearly wrong. I took Ada's side, to the extent I cared about that whole thing, just because I'm in general opposed to the "boss"es of whatever environment telling the users what to do. It sounds like Ada was doing the bulk of the moderation, anyway, and the mods were just there to give orders but shirking the actual work involved.
- I definitely wasn't in favor of shitting on JordanLund in that way. I don't even like Jordan, but the consistent effort to paint him as a Zionist (along with me, FlyingSquid, PugJesus, and more or less anyone who is opposed to a certain noisy contingent of users) and the wild gross personal attacks are not at all something I am in favor of. I think you can probably find me standing up for him against some similar abuse if you look further back, maybe not, but in that individual message I mostly just kind of didn't want to get involved in it and wanted to clarify my Israel stance and peace out. Look and see if you can find me calling someone a "twat" in anger, or talking about their grubby sticky fingers, anything like that, instead of just it being in a message I'm responding to. You might be able to, but as much as I can manage, I try to get heated about issues and events and not about people's personal characteristics.
- I didn't respond to your message just because it was long and it was going to take some doing to look up all the links and unpack it all, and I'd already done what I thought about things more or less to death. If you really want me to, I can go back and take a look, I'm not trying to ignore it but it was a long argument with a lot of repetition anyway so hopefully it's understandable. What the hell, I'll take a look later today I think.
- I wasn't implying people who care about politics on whatever side are losers. I was saying that people are accusing PugJesus of being a loser because he cares and argues about politics, and lemmy.ml is the glassiest of glass houses as far as that accusation.
- I had no real problem with dbzer0 up until a couple of days ago, I actually generally liked their instance because it seemed sensible. Some of the mods' politics I don't agree with but that is par for the course and normal. Now having observed some of their decisions at close range I don't feel that way. I did think about "migrating" to some other place for the topics I care about that have communities like YPTB on dbzer0, but just like in the 196 case, it doesn't really work entirely that way, and anyway if they continue to let me say what I want to say in YPTB, I probably won't really care beyond just voicing my opinion on it all.