Instance is midwest.social. Not a solitary clue who the admin was who did it.
A friend was wondering why they hadn’t seen my posts and figured I’d been banned from lemmy.world or just left in general. I went to his instance and saw that in the modlog.
Not a damn clue as to why. There are no post removals, no comment removals, no temp bans and I never got any messages from any of the admins about anything that I did. Just one day, they randomly banned me for racism without rhyme nor reason. I have literally nothing that I can point towards and say “This is the reason why” because they never bothered to do anything other than ban me.
I am many things. I am an asshole, I’m a vindictive bitch, I’m a petty prick, I’m often antagonistic, I’m also a whiny bitch. But racist?
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Well okay then
My favorite is when they ban you without citing any of the rules you broke. Got shadow banned from news because I made a tongue in cheek reference to how billionaires see the whole of working class citizens. “no, just no” was all they put. No broken rule, and obviously, no grasp of sarcasm. Even had the /s and everything.
. Got shadow banned from news
Can Lemmy even shadow-ban tho? I wasn’t aware that was a thing.
It can’t, no.
You don’t get notified when you’re banned, but there is a modlog.Ahh, ok, I get ya now. That’s true. But you can’t post to a place you’ve been banned, so it wouldn’t remain shadow-banned in the common use of the term. You’d find out then.
To your point, silent banning happens for sure. Has happened to me a lot.
Have you ever opposed any of the world’s ongoing genocides or authoritarian regimes?
Usually that just gets me mass downvoted and called a tankie
Or a liberal.
Ive never personally been called a Liberal, I have been called a fake anarchist and western imperialist sympathizer tho :3
is your name irony or serious?
If you detected a hint of atomic number 26, it’s because the name is as serious as a rusty old frying pan.
That’s a major flaw in lemmy. No ban notifications. Or, I’ve never gotten one. Like, rock n roll, ban me, especially if it’s justified. But since lemmy doesn’t let me know, if a mod doesn’t send a “fuck off and die” note, I may not find out I’m banned for months (like your situation, it wasn’t until someone else brought it to my attention).
But I do have multiple accounts, and if you want to ban me instead of just this account, you gotta let me know so I can filter shit out so I don’t vote on an alt or make a comment while I’m piddling around or whatever.
Also, apologies for going off topic since the mod action taken against the OP is the point of posting here, PTB. With no specifics given, and the total lack of anything hinting at racism in your years on lemmy, I can’t see this being a justified ban. Like you said, you’re human enough to put on an asshole hat now and then (less than me most likely, but still), but racism just isn’t something you’ve indulged in even in jest that I’ve ever seen.
I’m not 100% what is going on with ban notifications, but you will get some. Mostly from communities but not all. I think it’s depending on which instance has implemented that AutoMod function. But none of them tell you that you’ve been banned from another instance. Hell, it doesn’t even show it in my modlog. I had to go to midwest.social and manually search their modlog for myself and THEN see that I was banned. I’m sure I’ve probably got that on a few other instances.
I abhor racism. I was raised in an exceptionally racist household. I cannot say that I never said the N-word because I did. A lot. But growing up in a hateful echo chamber in a small town on a small island when everyone is so white they sunburn at night? You never see anything to break that mold. First person I met who wasn’t white was a Native dude at school when I was like 10ish. He was great, invited me over to his place and I went. Met his family. Every single thing I had been told was a complete lie. Was at that point I started second guessing everything that I was ever taught by my shithole parents. I was furious. I’m still furious. Well over 2/3rd of my life later and I’m incredibly furious. I am not okay with being used, especially against people for no reason. Like hell am I going to try and continue that for other people.
Then there’s the fact that I’m gay and have a “vested interest” if you want to put it that way because racism isn’t that different from homophobia in how insanely fucking stupid the entire thing is.
But more than anything? It’s just a fucked up way to be. I’m a die hard Trekkie. If I watched that show and came away going “Racism is okay!” then I need to be shot.
I’ve removed two posts in the one comm im a mod of (that isn’t just a personal comm) and both times i responded in the post explaining why it’s deleted, before removing the post. That’s the only way I know of that will alert a person they’ve been moderated.
I’ve never gotten a notification for anything of mine that’s been removed or banned.
It is heavily dependant on the instance and whether they have that set up. Lemmy.world will send notices but not all instances do. I don’t think lemmy.world will send a notification saying you’ve been banned from the instance though, I could be wrong
Lemmy.world will send notices but not all instances do.
Must be recent, when I was banned they didn’t give me a notice. They eventually wrote an entire post about it, but never let me know directly.
That’s a major flaw in lemmy. No ban notifications.
Agreed!
Part of a temp ban I got (night have been my other account I don’t use anymore) was because I ignored that my other comments were removed and continued an argument.
How was I supposed to know my comments were removed? There was no warning or anything, no notification about removals, nothing. Only saw the comments I was responding to as they popped in.
Doesn’t REALLY matter, I deserved it, but it would be nice to actually be appropriately warned before catching a ban when a warning was implied.
Stamets, you honky.
What? Can’t hear you over the banjo
I bet one of the admins just had it out for you and came up with a bullshit excuse. Midwest reminds me of the Tankie Triad sometimes, quite a few of their users are .ml and Hexbear alts and the nonsensical banning is perfectly on brand. Nowhere near on the same level, of course, but still clearly a problem.
Side note, I hardly ever see anyone posting from that instance anymore. Used to see their users all the time. I wonder why?
Midwest is still federated with Hexbear as well.
What I find bizarre is that I only found out by complete accident.
Someone else made a post and @'d me. I looked at it and it had a response with someone saying “That account has been banned” and he was from the midwest.social instance. This dude happens to be a buddy of mine and I chat with him on Steam and Bsky so I reached out and asked what he meant while I looked at midwest.social and saw the banning.
He thought that lemmy.world had banned me for whatever reason (Spam. Spam would be the reason) and that’s why he wasn’t seeing my posts or anything on Lemmy anymore. That I either got banned or left lemmy on my own (which I did do for a hot second). I responded to him and asked if he could see the response. He couldn’t. He then looked at my account and saw all the posts outside of midwest.social and saw all the posts I’ve been making and that’s when I made this post.
Whole situation is just so weird.
Thanks again @End0fLine@midwest.social
Well, that definitely explains the number of tankies from that instance. On a side note, I’m really glad you’re back on Lemmy, the place felt empty without your posts.
Thank you <3
Life has just been a lot lately. Hard to get the energy to to go sorting through memes for 20 minutes, post them all and then go digging through the trash to find something to eat. The depression just does a lot of “What’s the point” and the not eating for days doesn’t give me enough energy to think up a point.
Midwest is still federated with Hexbear as well.
Any idea when Midwest was setup? I feel like I only saw Hexbear for a short bit before the blocking function became available. Then I immediately would have blocked Hexbear.
It just seems very midwestern to take the “just ignore them” approach.
I like it because I prefer to have the blocking of instances be my choice.
ooo has the redbaiting found a new target?
I’ve said it before but this is a good time to say it again: Lemmy can be more authoritarian than even Reddit.
Yes there is a modlog, but no notifications, no modmail, no ability to even know who did the moderation other than that it was done by a “mod” - Reddit at least told us that we were banned?!?! and allowed for an appeal process - all of which makes total sense when you consider the authoritarian nature of the devs, who are well-known for site-wide banning upon saying something that they disagree with (even simple facts).
I am much happier on PieFed, which offers numerous options for democratization of moderation - e.g. you can place icons next to users names, or have that done automatically based on rules, thereby increasing the set of options from the binary “remove post or ban” vs. “do nothing, leave it alone for everyone to see” to allow you to decide what to do based on those. Like there are keyword filters in place (beyond simply “All” vs. “None”, also offering “Some”, if you wanted e.g. some Trump or Musk content but less than the currently tsunami of it!), thereby allowing a mod to leave a post up and allow the community members to individually tailor the content to suit their tastes. Like for a <2 week account, I may respond differently; or for someone who receives 10x more downvotes than upvotes, I may choose not to respond at all rather than waste time on such sea-lioning tactics.
Lemmy was made by the people who got banned from Reddit for being too toxic. We are using their tools, made for and by authoritarians, unless we build and use better (like Mbin and now PieFed).
This specific thing - about notifications - may change (though it has not in the 2 years I moved here from Reddit… only getting worse in fact, as the modlog used to say the name of the mod but now it simply says “mod”), but the overall trend looks like it will not.
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Like what?
Any tool can be used in many ways, but overall the trend that I see in PieFed is to place more power into the hands of the individual users rather than force administrators or community moderators or developers to have to do every little thing. Even right down to the choice of implementation language being Python rather than Rust, which shifts the balance downwards allowing more people to control their own instances rather than have to rely upon the developers, and facilitates user contributions to the codebase.
Of course instance admins should control their own instances - it’s their hardware after all, bought and paid for, and with their effort more than simply money - and similarly moderators their communities. I am just speaking to the overall trends (the overall balance being shifted more towards users on PieFed, compared to Lemmy and Reddit) that I have seen, but am open to feedback if others see differently? I should note that PieFed is relatively much newer than Lemmy, despite how features keep being added weekly, so e.g. if PieFed lacks a feature such as notifications for being banned, I would likely chalk it up to it simply being so new, rather than a deliberate choice not to bother with such, which the administrative practices observed on lemmy.ml lends me to believe is the case for Lemmy.
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Wow, thanks for the details. I never dove into it that deep. Great write-up!
First, thank you so much for sharing your experiences!
Are you sure about your first point though? Seriously, I shitpost like ALL THE TIME, and I have never once seen that happen. Here’s one example where I did such recently, ironically to one of your posts. It has zero downvotes that I can see, even viewed from lemmy.world where the community is housed.
But assuming that the above is one of the “experimental features”, and combining it with the second issue, I would say that so long as the -1 was INTERNAL to that instance and not shared with others, then so what? If an instance admin desires to make a place “for serious discussions only”, then reaction gifs (aka light-hearted funzies!:-P) would be “undesirable” in that case? Most instance owners could leave the setting turned OFF, and hopefully those that turn it ON will be very up-front about what they are doing (and in a manner far better than lemmy.ml’s “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers”, saying nothing whatsoever about the fact that you will receive a site-wide ban, from communities that you’ve never even so much as heard of, if you ever criticize Russia, China, or North Korea), though if not, I’m sure that people will find out quickly:-).
It sounds like a tool, which like any tool is up to the wielder to use appropriately. Perhaps that one would be likely to be misused though? If so, then I hope it does not make it into the final codebase. That is one fantastic feature about PieFed though: unlike Rust and the limited contributions to Lemmy keeping it mostly static for the past 2 years that I’ve been here, PieFed is extremely dynamic and adds new features weekly (pretty much literally), so if some features are good and others bad, that just all the more is awesome that we can “explore” that space a bit, to find and sift the features that are worth keeping from those that are not? It would be important then to distinguish between more “experimental” vs. “stable” instances - though Lemmy is the same (look at Beehaw, Hexbear, heck even Lemmy.World runs a modified codebase somewhat distinct from base Lemmy), so the only real difference here seems to me that PieFed provides more tools than Lemmy does, and moreover can get through their shitty initial development phase more quickly to the phase where it can be fine-tuned by more people (since more people know Python).
Seriously, if someone wants to call some of my comments as “low-effort”… that’s on them? And may even be appropriate, if what they are truly looking for is long paragraphs of pure text? (I can do that too… :-P)
As I understand your third issue “Vote weighing”, that is a tool to help reduce the burden on moderators. The second most active instance lemm.ee shutting down due to lack of people willing to put the time & effort required to clean up the contentious back-and-forth discussions between people is a perfect illustration of why some auto-mod tools may be helpful. First, mods would choose to enact this in their communities or not, and second, wouldn’t individual contributions to a specific community be a desirable trait to look into, e.g. whether someone’s post may need to be quarantined and approved by a mod rather than simply allowed to go through, and then have to be removed (and the user banned), if e.g. a day-1 account decides to post trash, or rather a year-old account but who posts for the very first time in your community? Edit: to explain a bit further, right now Lemmy has just 2 classes of users: those with authority (admins and mods), and those without, whereas PieFed is expanding this to add a new class of “known posters” with community-specific karma having been built up, similar to how mods currently see the username and say “yeah, I know THAT person, they’re kinda cool!”, and then just kinda trust that they are doing now as they have reliably always done in the past (importantly: the community having liked it, hence the community-specific karma being positive), by posting cool stuff rather than insidious stuff that may need moderator attention to remove it. Although if they somehow DID, then mods still retain the ability to remove something when necessary. This just codifies what the standard practice has always been? And it only affects the few minutes to hours between the user posting vs. the moderator seeing that fact and deciding what to do about it, though importantly it vastly reduces the NEED for moderator actions, by being more selective about when a moderator is necessary to be called upon.
And it is not like it is unheard of happening on Lemmy either - e.g. seahorse the owner of midwest.social banning people outright for downvoting their posts, and lemmy.ml site-wide banning people for e.g. criticizing Russia, China, or North Korea. Such things are bound to happen everywhere. This at least is a tool that offers transparency and formalizing an arrangement rather than leaving it be a surprise to people when it happens to them organically (and as your OP got into, not even being told about it!).
Honestly I do not know how well this all will work out… but it is exciting that such experiments are being done! I did not like PieFed’s implementation or even desire to allow for truly anonymous voting, and sure enough time told the story on that one and it was discontinued. The features that prove useful can be kept, while the features that end up being less so can be discarded. Lemmy barely changes over the years, so the model of PieFed being much more adept and agile to jump ahead and explore new territory… this I consider a good thing, in general terms.
And one thing I absolutely adore: even if Lemmy were somehow perfect, PieFed represents a third (after K/Mbin) ActivityPub implementation of the Threadiverse (well there’s also nodeBB and flarum but nobody talks about them, and ofc Friendica, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. but those really do different things). It is supremely important to not have all the eggs be placed into a singular basket, and whether we make use of them or not, it is great to have such choices. Especially when someone can spin up an instance and, knowing the language (Python in this case), modify the code to suit their individual needs:-).
You shitpost, sure, but you also post massive, informative, high quality walls of text.
Which is why I like general-purpose instances that encourage having both!:-)
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Okay I guess there’s a lot still that I do not understand.
What is a “reaction gif” then? Mine apparently did not qualify? Is it only gifs from certain sources, like tenor or giffy or some such, and with no explanatory text added? Even so, the URL for mine is https://media.tenor.com/IBdbO5idxJcAAAAM/garak-garak-ds9.gif so seems to qualify on all counts, unless somehow including “alternate text” (for blind users or if the image does not resolve) prevents it from being toggled? My example seems to suggest that perhaps what you mentioned is an experimental feature, which is not turned on for regular servers e.g. piefed.social… maybe?
And by “reputation” then do you mean “attitude”? That is even less useful than reputation, as I have never once seen anything based upon it. I could imagine an icon being put next to someone’s name, but that would require ENORMOUS bias towards something, like theoretically if someone only did 10x “reaction gifs” for every comment that included even so much as a single actual word (in English or otherwise)… which again, so what? For an instance that decided that they wanted “serious posts only”, which piefed.social seems not to, that could be a “feature”?
The crucial parts of that last bit are: (1) that it is INTERNAL to the instance, not like a down-vote sent back to the OP’s home institution would be - if the latter happened then I 100% agree with you there that such a feature is BAD BAD BAD; and (2) that the feature is something that can be toggled off or on, as the instance owner chooses. In that case, it is not something that “PieFed” does, but something that “[piefed instance name here]” chooses to enable, which PieFed (the software) allows but does not mandate. So a bit more complex than full yay or nay here, yet still if 99% of instances turn this off (as I would expect, for something like this that seems designed purely for “serious discussions only” - after all why else would someone do this?!?), then it’s not like “all” or even “most” of PieFed is this way, but rather only some? i.e. it’s a feature that PieFed instances are OFFERED, not like a foundational feature of what PieFed IS. It seems to me anyway, but a lot of this is based on premises that again I do not fully understand (most especially, whether it is even happening at all or not, or if it is merely something experimental under consideration) so I hope I do not come across as coming against you or anything here. :-)
Instance admins are not mods, and mods are not normal users. I think this is fine. Or at least… those same identical arguments were once levied against the usage of Lemmy altogether, when we were back on Reddit. “They don’t know what they’re doing”, “The instances will fail and people will lose ownership rights to all content that they have ever created - yes they can migrate but then what if they wanted to delete something later, they could not because the original user account is gone and there is no way to prove subsequent ownership rights?”, “Most people will not leave Reddit, it’s too big, the niche content simply will not be there”, “The number of trolls and toxic users - kicked off of Reddit because they were TOO TOXIC EVEN FOR REDDIT - is just too damn high!” It was all true then, and what you are saying about PieFed may be all true now… but so what? It’s all a grand experiment anyway! :-) We move forward, and we improve things. Your arguing against these features will help kill them, or perhaps cause them to be modified like making them significantly harder to turn on, or with warnings on that it should only be used in special cases, and so on.
People abuse Lemmy all the damn time. As this very community attests to:-).
Suppressing communities at an admin’s whim is already possible? Farid and I went down a very interesting rabbit hole over on StarTrek.Website where ChapoTrapHouse@hexbear.net was specifically disabled (plus another one too that I now forget, perhaps on lemmygrad.ml) - you could see other Hexbear.net communities, but not that specific one. Though there was no mention of this anywhere that I could find: no announcement post, it did not appear in the Instances list as blocked, again you could view other communities, and again I forget the details but you might even have been able (at some point, but then not later?) to view past posts there. So while your concern is valid, this is in no way shape or form limited to PieFed: this has been happening for at least a year on Lemmy already, given how desperately desired the “instance block” feature was, especially compared to how lame it was when it finally came out (e.g. it still allows users from that instance to send you DMs, triggering notifications, etc.). And there are counter-examples where this tool can be used in the RIGHT way too?
I will think more about what you said about Digg. Although my naive first thoughts are… that is already the way of the world? I do not want “echo chambers” either, so I suppose it depends on the implementation: does every single post from certain users get up-weighted? That would be bad. Or does a user simply become “trusted” after like 10 comments with 5+ upvotes, after which the signal to a moderator that someone has made a new posts gets labelled as being much less urgent, since it was submitted by a “trusted user”? That type of class I have no problems with: you are a stranger, then a probationary time period that usually won’t last long, then a full citizen, no further subdivisions required (although some still exist: mods for one, admins for another, creators of communities regardless of current mod status still another, etc.). So VERY LIMITED vote weighting, for extremely LIMITED purposes I am okay with. Is that all that is going on, or is there more? The devil is in the details I suppose.
Fwiw I agree with you that votes should not matter which instance it is from. Now, I am a huge fan of blocking trolling instances - the tankie triad for one, maybe some others like your OP here as well, especially if the blocking is done at the individual user level so that my decision to do so affects nobody else - but once someone is in, a “full citizen” as it were, then they should count the same, I agree. Maybe make a post about this in one of the c/Fediverse communities? I also spoke out against the anonymous vote thing. I am glad to see that one die. Polls are one thing, but to spam other instances with obfuscated data, just… why? Let things either be done in the light or else the darkness, but if someone chooses the latter then they have no right to complain when they get blocked - for the simple reason that my rights end where someone else’s begin.
Oh wow I thought you were joking about “piefed.world”, simply misspelling “piefed.social” and conflating it with “lemmy.world” that you are so used to. That is… fascinating!
I view PieFed as merely software. Lemmy is likewise software, but more of a “black box” for most people it would seem, who can’t simply open it up and modify it to suit their needs, whereas instance admins could do that more readily for PieFed, either for good or for ill. Both Lemmy and PieFed have their advantages and disadvantages. At least the devs of PieFed seem eager to listen… mostly, and especially if someone is offering actual code contributions, but even when not. The Lemmy devs on the other hand… have made the software what it is, and it will not be made differently no matter how much people ask. I’ve seen code requests languish for FIVE YEARS, at which point they are either severely overloaded trying to work with the language, or it represents a choice not to do it, or most likely both. In contrast, PieFed is starting off behind Lemmy, but it is catching up - having already surpassed it in most ways (not searching, that one Lemmy still wins hands-down), and I have already watched it blossom greatly over the last half a year from being barely functional alpha to fully-functioning beta. It will get better, especially with help from people offering their thoughts about how to make it better:-).
Motherfuck, you write more than I do. I fucking love it. Don’t stop! You are def adding content to this discussion and it’s given me a lot to think about!
Lemmy can be more authoritarian than even Reddit.
I think it’s leaning that way. And I think it’s hampering it’s growth. I still like Lemmy way more than Reddit though!
And piefed is awesome!
Reddit at least told us that we were banned?!?! and allowed for an appeal process
Which they promptly reject every single time, because it’s not a human doing it.
It was a beautiful comment. Some people struggle with irony. Btw, I don’t think anyone is concious of their unconcious biases. If you give a shit, in the broad sense, you just have to keep trying.
You’re interviewing two candidates and you just seem to prefer Dan over Eric, who has dreads. You’re not really sure why you prefer Dan, but you’re sure it’s nothing to do with racism. You feel confident because you have a daughter-in-law you love like your own, who happens to be black. Are you racist if you hire Dan?
Oh absolutely. I have no idea if I’m racist unless I have it pointed out. Do I want to be? Fuck no. I just want to be told how so I can stop doing that. I don’t want my fun to come at the expense of others. Unless they’re billionaires or nazis, they can fuck off.
I quite like that admin, he has a very ‘no bullshit’ attitude.
I get why you might be confused though, he tends to issue bans for comments or posts on other instances that he finds or are reported (instance admins get reports from users on their instance regardless of if it originates on a different one). I actually quite appreciated it myself, but I very much share his political perspective so its not for everyone.
Midwest.social is small anyway, so its not a big deal.
There is more going on with that instance than meets the eye.
Like I said, I quite like that admin.
I get why people (especially people who do not share his perspectives) might not appreciate the blunt moderation, but I happen to agree with both of those examples.
The first one was someone abusing the report function against people who were not breaking any server rules. Midwest.social does not have a rule against calls to violence, and I personally do not have a problem with calling for violence against billionares, just like I don’t have a problem with calls to violence against nazis or genociders. If it were my server, and I was getting dozens of reports from the same person complaining about people wishing harm to billionares, I would probably ban them, too.
I honestly don’t see a problem with the second post, unless you just think he’s being an ass.
Banning people for downvoting your posts is a little weird. People can run their instances however they like but it helps to have truth in advertising, e.g. Beehaw is quite up-front when they do it, as too is Admiral Patrick of dubvee.org, whereas even Hexbears (notorious leftists) have dunked on Seahorse for having such a fragile ego and acting cowardly (their words).
Obviously you are free to do as you please, I was just pointing out some references in case they help. Normally when people ask what leftist instances to join, I tell them that yours (lemmy.dbzer0.com) and slrpnk.net are awesome, and then stop there without mentioning midwest.social.
As in, the instance is small for a reason, due to people avoiding it. :-P
Banning people for downvoting your posts is a little weird.
Where do you see that he was banning people for downvoting? He locked the post, sure, but things were certainly devolving in that thread. Looks like he just said an unpopular thing and then taunted downvoters for disagreeing.
As in, the instance is small for a reason, due to people avoiding it.
Frankly, I think large instances are a huge problem. I think every instance should be as small as midwest.social.
Yea, go nuts with avoiding it if you’re not a fan. I think seahorse would actually appreciate it if people who know they aren’t going to like his community not bother him with new registrations.
Since you do not seem to be sea-lioning, I will add some more details, but all of this is available from what I sent already.
Where do you see that he was banning people for downvoting?
It is the very title of the post in the 2nd link. The top comment starts with “Confirmed its real…”.
Yes small instances are great. Some are as small as just one person, and do not even allow sign-ups for anyone else. This one, however, advertises that it is welcoming as it desires to become larger.
What you are missing is that additional people are being affected, beyond merely the instance admin and the people who wish to block that instance. There are communities that have been placed on that instance, by people who were unaware, and are now mods. Some of those communities have since been moved elsewhere, after this community we are in now discussed the issue, making it less impactful but still present for new people coming here from Reddit who were unaware.
The admin may come across as “no-nonsense”, but there is more to that story than simply that. Obviously you will do as you please regardless - I just wanted to offer that knowledge so that your choice could be as informed as possible.
It is the very title of the post in the 2nd link.
The post title says he locked the post, not that he banned anyone.
This one, however, advertises that it is welcoming as it desires to become larger.
It’s welcoming, but not to everyone. “No bigotry, hate speech, No zionists, No fascists”. Doesn’t say it’s limited only to activity on their server.
What you are missing is that additional people are being affected, beyond merely the instance admin and the people who wish to block that instance.
Every admin and every instance has their own rules and their own standard for who can participate in their communities. This admin has chosen the proactive route, but those who get locked out have plenty of other places to go, and they can even successfully appeal their ban. That’s the benefit of the fediverse, and I think it’s perfectly acceptable to preemptively ban people from your community if they display the kind of behavior you find unacceptable. It’s your party, and you can uninvite whoever you want.
I don’t have any problem with you sharing your take, but I haven’t seen anything here that I take issue with. You’re free to disagree but I like that server just fine.
Yeah, that’s weird. I wish people would be more descriptive in ban reasons. As the story is so far, it sounds like PTB to me. I get the impression from others on Lemmy that midwest is pretty ban-heavy tho.
Removed by mod
I’m still banned from world I think
Hey stamets, did you
Did I what?
You know, the thing!
… I do not know the thing
Bro but when the
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Oh i’ve stopped looking for logic with these weasels.
I got banned with a “merry Christmas ya filthy racist” for pointing out the Master from Doctor Who was a genocidal maniac who tended to get hoist on his own petard. Because the current iteration was played by an actor of SEA descent. Apparently actor =/= character is faulty maths.
To be fair, you were banned from hexbear.
Go back a bit further, i also got banned from .ml for referring to xi as “winnie”
That’s actually your earliest banning. The lemmy.ml one they just put down Rule 1 or whatever. The admins of lemmy.ml are a piece of work. They also banned my startrek.website account a long ass time ago but were all but forced to reverse course. Was the early days of Lemmy and I was posting way more than I do now, which is saying something. Why’d they ban me? I posted a meme that was the dude from Jimmy Neutron saying “My first gay character!”, attributed to Disney. The teacher then was like “This is your 18th first gay character” or something. I posted it with the title “They’re always the first in China, at least before being removed.”
Instant ban.
poor little lemmings. They’ll never be part of the power structure no matter how much they gobble, best they can do is swing at people on a federate instance so they have to go to one of a hundred others.
Ironically, the term “dunk tank” has rascist origins.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunk_tank#Origin (note: slurs).
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