I just got permanently banned from a community for making a single harmless remark on a single post that was right there in the main feed. It’s not a community I’m super active in so it’s not like devastating, but it is annoying
If your precious little community is full of so many delicate sensitive people who can’t even be reminded that another viewpoint even exists, then you should really protect them by defederating and having everyone join your private website
The mod has literally removed like 75% of the comments and banned everyone lol
I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t have time to read every rule for every community that pops up when I’m in view all
Isn’t blocking them essentially you banning them from your posts and comments? Why is that different?
No. Blocking in Lemmy is simply a way to remove something from your sight; even if you block a user, the user can still interact with your posts/comments just fine.
Right, but my point is OP is criticising the community or its mods for not wanting to interact with everyone and then not wanting to interact with everyone themselves
I personally think blocking and banning is fine in sensible amounts. Sometimes someone is just making your experience worse and bringing nothing to the table for you. I’m interested to hear OP’s thoughts on what looks a bit hypocritical to me
I am not sure but I think that OP’s point is more like “they don’t allow everyone to talk” than “they don’t want to hear you”. I’m saying this based on his usage of “participate” plus the focus on the mod side of the things.
If my interpretation is correct, there’s no hypocrisy, even if I don’t fully agree with it.
I full agree with you on this. Specially when it comes to blocking.
If OP didn’t want to see the community, he really should have hosted his own instance and only federated with select few.
Or just block it the first time they see it
(I was being facetious)