this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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I hope this is the right place for this post because from my 2-day experience in lemmy.world I see signs of a dystopic online community in which it is not permitted to express anti-zionist opinions. If you think this post would fit better in another forum, would you point it out to me? Unless automod gets to me first?

  1. I created an account 2 days ago and I posted this article in Not the Onion: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs.

It was removed by automod, so I contacted a human mod. The rest is in the screenshot. I decided not to wait for an answer because I had similar issues in Reddit. Mods were removing anti-zionist posts of news articles and had them restored a couple of days later, so they would get less visibility by not showing up on the first page, and it worked. Assuming (of course I cannot be certain at this point) that similar stuff are taking place here, is also alarming.

  1. Take a look at this post as well: What is @automod doing?

Tbh, I just hope I’m just wrong on all this, and I would really like to have some feedback on this from people that have been around in this instance longer that I have been.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Case #1 - looks like the moderator of that community doesn't think the headline fits the sub. I don't get any particular sense that the reason for removal was in any way political.

Case #2 - as the moderator explained, the auto moderator on Lemmy is basically still in beta stage and is still very much a work in progress.

In both cases, it seems you got a fair explanation as to what happened to your posts. I think it's a bit premature to start making accusations of some kind of political conspiracy about this instance in general.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just to second this. Feels like a pretty strong overreaction. Maybe you don't agree with the moderator but their explanation seems very reasonable. They even agree with your stance, just that it's not the right community for this post.

Also I'd say accusing lemmy.world in general of a pro-Israel bias is pretty far fetched. I see endless posts in support of the Palestinian's plight every day (and rightly so of course.)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Mod: moderates according to community guidelines and is cordial when responding to post removal inquiries

You: "wOw YoU aRe sUcH a ZiOniSt!!!!!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I don't see how it's Oniony either, but you're welcome to post it to World News.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Embrace your hope - you are wrong about this.