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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/46148690

Over the past few days, @MrKaplan@lemmy.world/@MrKaplan@piefed.world has banned multiple users, blocked entire comms, and now defederated from Anarchist.Nexus over their anti-Zionist stance.

This extreme overreaction and general power trippin' bastard behavior stems from Lemmy.world's history of pro-Zionist views. And now MrKaplan is seeking out the flimsiest pretext to to enact his own personal vendetta.

Free Palestine, Death to Israel, Death to Zionism.

Lemmy.world is a ZioNazi instance. Avoid it like the plague.

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[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

how is it problematic when a community member consistently causes problems in your community to disengage from them? i must be missing something

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The problem is that it is not just a comunity member or a guest, but an admin, who runs all the instance. For example, you have a big old community on that instance and you cannot easily just migrate to another instance just because of you do not like the admin. You either coop and remain there or is forced to make a bold move. You sure can ban a random guy from your comunity without a problem, but not if this guy is an admin of your instance and is a jerk, that can avenge you by messing with the whole community.

P. S. Sure, I could have missed something.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

absolutely. this is a community member weaponizing their power over others to make everything worse for everyone. i think our best maneuver is to remove their power by just… not letting them be powerful

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Okay, from this point of view you're right. I am just not sure how to do it, except for mass boycotting this member in each and every community until he complies.