For more context: I already had the communism and lefty communites blocked. I’d consider myself middle-left of the political spectrum but personally don’t believe in some grand revolution saving us all. Most left communities on here seem to far out there for my personal taste at least. My comment is deleted but if you wanna see the post here’s the link.

  • @[email protected]
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    274 months ago

    There’s no irony there. There’s a difference between curating your own experience and others forcing censorship on you.

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      People can curate the experience they want on their community as well. Same thing really. They don’t have to content with low quality post that calls them in question with no substance over and over again.

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        Yeah. My sympathies lie with OP, but communities should be able to unapologetically curate their vibe.

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          I wish you’d differentiate between instance and community. I didn’t just get banned from that specific community but from the whole instance permanently without explanation. I mean I guess I don’t mind that much in retrospect but it did mildly annoy me since I like commenting and lemmy doesn’t have that much content to begin with compared to the likes of reddit.

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            lol. You were blocked because they didn’t like your comment was getting upvotes? Idk, buddy. Good riddance, I’d say. I understand about the lack of content, though.

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            That applies to instances, too - they should be also free to curate their own vibes, including saying “you are not welcome here”. Nobody here is entitled to the usage of an instance.

            The problem with lemmy .ml is on another level: transparency. Instead of actually telling users what they want/don’t want in their instance, like Hexbear for example correctly does, they keep pushing and pulling rule #1 (no bigotry - the reason why you were banned BTW) and rule #2 (be respectful) to justify every single action. It’s effectively lying to the users.

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              I agree with you and think if an instance communicates clearly what they are and what they want then I have no problem.

              BTW how do you no the reason why I’m supposedly banned when I don’t even know that.

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                BTW how do you no the reason why I’m supposedly banned when I don’t even know that.

                Modlog.

                It’s weird to think about it. It’s a great transparency tool, and yet made by the same group that struggles to handle users in a transparent way.

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                  That’s actually a cool thing. Never knew this existed. My comment was definitely a bit salty looking back. It’s just I didn’t find any humor in the post and found this type of post to appear often. Good to know tho, I’ll look into it since I’m curious what other type of comments they ban. Still bigotry is a weird claim, since they can’t seem to tolerate my opinion. Although that brings up the whole tolerating intolerance topic. I don’t think I was being intolerant personally. I just didn’t find the satire in the meme.

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        When you create the experience of your community you are curating it for everyone else though, not just yourself which I think is the distinction.

        I don’t think it’s necessarily a big deal because fortunately Lemmy has lots of instances and communities so if you disagree with one you can just go to another one.

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          44 months ago

          When you create the experience of your community you are curating it for everyone else.

          Yes. Everyone else includes me, who’s tired of shitlibs posting low quality whining about leftists. One of the main reasons I got off Reddit.

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        I wish you’d differentiate between instance and community. I didn’t just get banned from that specific community but from the whole instance permanently without explanation.

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          You do know the modlog is public right? You weren’t banned, you’re low effort comment was removed. Plus the distinction you’re trying to make between community and instance is moot. In fact it’s probably truer for an instance, the admins don’t have to pay, maintain, and assume some liability for your content if they don’t feel like it. They aren’t providing a transport layer.

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            Wait I checked and now im just banned from [email protected] but not from lemmy.ml as a whole. My comment wasn’t low effort tho. I was just mentioning how I dislike communist violent revolution fantasy getting posted over and over as “memes” when they aren’t ironic or satirical.