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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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Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

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[–] homes@piefed.world 36 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

lemmy.ml is an instance well-known for being, shall we say… unreasonable when it comes to politics.

The admins and a large portion of the user base are tankies— people who claim to be extreme leftists/communists but really worship the likes of Stalin, Xi and the oppressive authoritarian government of regimes, such as the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea. They are very much intolerant any criticism whatsoever or anyone else’s political views. Unfortunately, the administrators of that instance are also the main developers for Lemmy itself.

This is why ~~the code has been forked to another platform~~ alternatives to lemmy have been developed, such as PieFed, which is federated and interoperates with Lemmy, and is not dependent on the crazy ass developers. It also has better mod and admin features. but even if you don’t wanna switch to PieFed, you can at least avoid communities on Lemmy.ml. I have the whole instance blocked.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

piefed is not a fork, it's a completely different codebase. with plenty of its own problems.

[–] homes@piefed.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

oh, my mistake. with a quick google, I see that it's python, not rust, so yeah, obviously not a fork. my mistake!

[–] lime@feddit.nu 18 points 1 week ago (25 children)

did you also see the opinionated parts? if you enable the default filter list piefed hides all meme and 4chan communities and enables built in image recognition specifically to prevent people from posting greentexts. it also keeps an internal tally of user "quality" based on what communities they post in.

truly everything is political.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Oh, damn, that "user quality" metric is really messed up

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[–] homes@piefed.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

yeah, I don't really consider those to be the "problems" others do, especially since instance admins can simply disable those features.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 10 points 1 week ago (9 children)

of course they can, just like how the ml admins can choose not to have their weird swearing filter that nobody else uses. but it's still in there and that's what they thought communities wanted. eg, that's what they wanted for their community. point being, no codebase is neutral and i don't know the intent of the piefed dev either.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (75 children)

image

whaaaat the fuuuuck

oh, then there's this bit from you:

why would Democrats not be the clear superior if only because they don’t cause needless suffering to interior minorities?

tell us you're a white male without telling us. you are so out of touch with reality, it's a wonder you can tie your fucking shoes.

PTB or triggered shitlib?

motherfucker, YOU are the triggered shitlib.

[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't know what people expect will happen when they go into leftist communities or even just communities run by leftists and start spouting shitlib electoralist apologia.

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[–] Skavau@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I can't actually see what your [deleted] comments say but even if they were objectionable to their rules in that community, revoking your access to other communities entirely irrelevant to memes@lemmy.ml seems completely PTB.

Especially as you've got BrainInTheBox there running rampant, as usual.

[–] homes@piefed.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

IIRC, on lemmy instances, there is no actual "instance-wide ban" feature. to do a ban like that, you have to get banned from all of the communities you're subscribed to via some scripted tool, so this is how it shows up. this is one of the improvements the platforms like mBin and PieFed have included in their code. apparently, it's still "coming soon" in Lemmy's code.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (4 children)

@calmblue75@lemmy.ml explained why your comments were being perceived as problematic but you didn’t didn’t read the room. You might actually be in agreement with the community, but your choice of words reads as “a little genocide is acceptable.”

All genocide is unacceptable. All mass murder is unacceptable. Putting the unacceptable onto a scale of better or worse is a liberal propaganda tactic that doesn’t fly in leftist spaces. Your mistake was conflating the concept of “voting to minimize harm in a captured system” with “my genocide is more ethical than their genocide,” which is a fallacy. No genocides are ethical.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Its absolutely hilarious that there are two types of people in this thread, people who read your comments and people who see ml so assume it must be a PTB. How about you make it easier for everyone and post those offending comments?

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[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

OP got banned from this community for "Bad jacketing and electoralism", and while I aint reading 125 comments to see bad jacketing, including electorialism as a ban reason is wild af.

Regardless if PTB or YDI, I think grass touching might be in order for multiple parties here for taking online politics LARP too seriously. It's a beautiful spring weather, perfect for a walk.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 16 points 1 week ago (32 children)

they were calling people who they think didn't vote nazis. seems like a pretty good reason to ban someone. they were also banned from AN because they wouldn't stop calling me honey.

all in all, a rather unpleasant liberal, who was given the chance to find posting opportunities elsewhere.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

they were also banned from AN because they wouldn’t stop calling me honey.

Ugh. I hate it when shitlibs add an inappropriate pet name to the end of their condescending apologia for genocide.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

they wouldn't stop calling me honey

Gross

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 week ago

Guy came here to complain about how he was banned for electoralist garbage and he ended up getting banned for electoralist apologia. YDM troll.

[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (23 children)

I 100% get that we elect our opposition not our leaders. and in the US we are only given "lesser evil", and not voting isn't helping. OP was basically bootlicking dems and being ok with their atrocities.

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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

Just read through the comments- lmao, YDM. Fascist apologia def seems to fit rule 1 of both the instance and community

Side note: What do you think "shitlib" means?


Edit:

Words OP doesn't know the meaning of:

  • shitlib
  • defend
  • support
  • apologia
  • logic
  • consequentialism
  • semantics
  • option
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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago

Here's your medal for being banned from .ml:

You can get it in 2 and 5 too, they tend to stack up.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago
[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

After seeing your reactions to mild criticism to millionaires who don't care about you, you deserve more. Fuck off you diet fascist.

Edit: VGA, if you're going to downvote everyone here, you could explain why you think people are wrong.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Lmfao you are such a shitlib. YDI

Heck, actually, YDM

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago
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