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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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- Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
 - What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
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 - Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
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 - BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
 - CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
 
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it doesn't facilitate the main communities but itself has a nazi bar problem
Im not a part of db0 so I don't have any say about if .world should be defederated or not
IMO everyone should. Isn't hexbear defederated from that shit hole¹? You have a position of experience to comment from.
¹ .world I mean
Hexbear is, but I only joined recently.
before that I was just in general lemmy, which actually defed from hexbear and lemmygrad. obviously, my opinions have changed and my politics have shifted, i frankly cant in good conscience interact or look at it anymore, it may have good people but i simply disagree with far too many things, it feels the only thing in common is them being on a spectrum of pro lgbtq and vaguely supporting palestine (but not the forces that prevent the genocide)
They tend to have a certain entitled sanctimonious chauvanism and calculated resilient ignorance I can't fucking stand.
If I had to choose a group to not exist from between liberals and open Nazis, open Nazis poof out every time, but I genuinely find them less infuriating intransigent and personally offensive when they talk.
And I'm an open queer who tends towards they/them pronouns. Those fuckers want me dead.
If you make the Nazis disappear, the liberals are still there to allow the Nazis to grow anew - if you make the liberals disappear, the Nazis will never be able to exist in the first place.
You can't have fascism without liberalism.
Valid, but that would take a while.