I don’t troll. At all. What I do is post various comments encouraging a community to not get angry as hell about a change but to make the best out of it. That’s what happened when 196 decided to port over from blahaj.zone to lemmy.world. I made a bunch of fairly long comments that were talking about how people shouldn’t be angry and just leaving toxic comments but fueling a better community, whether that be here or elsewhere. Comments went fairly well and all was fine and left up for a while but a couple of days after being posted they were removed along with everything else that I had posted to that community. The mods list the reason in the modlog for my permanent ban as “trolling”. There are many things I do, but trolling isn’t one of them. Especially when the comment sections are left in a state here showing that I wasn’t trolling.
I went through everything that I did with that community and cannot find a singular thing with the exception of a memory.
I had posted a meme a couple of weeks ago. I don’t remember exactly what it was but I remember a moderator saying on it an hour or two after posting that it should be marked as NSFW. I disagreed with this assessment. I left a comment in response saying that I disagreed that it should be marked and that I would refuse to mark it as NSFW. However, I also respect that it is their community and their rules so I settled for something different. I didn’t add an NSFW tag, I just deleted it wholesale. I didn’t want to add a tag to something that I didn’t feel was applicable and instead of having to sit with that tag on the post, I just deleted the post entirely.
So this only leaves two options from the mods of 196.
Either they banned me for posting comments that were supportive of the community itself and not directly supportive of them or they banned me for deleting a post.
In either case? The moderators of [email protected] are no better than reddit moderators who just lash out for their own ego. Blanket bans for disagreements.
And perhaps unsurprisingly and perfectly fitting of every single accusation that has been levied so far against them and their abusive practices, the last moderator to interact with me was @[email protected].
I find it fucking hysterical how the mods over there are so vehemently Anti-Trump (and should be given the userbase and content) but act no better than someone in his administration.
Edit: I found the post about it being NSFW after going through Moss’ profile but unsurprisingly Moss had to go ahead and suppress my comment there as well. It’s remarkable how much of their profile is just whining about being treated unfairly while they’re going ahead and treating people unfairly. But of course, Moss (being a redditor) had to go ahead and downvote before the removal of the post. Fragile… jesus.
As for how I feel it should be remedied, Moss should step down or at least be removed as a mod on Lemmy.world. They’ve done nothing for the community that hasn’t been insanely divisive as of late. They seem to be remarkably tonedeaf and just openly abusing their position.
Update
@[email protected] went to the community and straight up asked why I was banned. For the record I didn’t ask for this or anything and was completely blindsided when I got a notification in my inbox. But a mod over there did respond with this:
So I’m unbanned from the community because a mod could find no reason that made sense why I was banned.
Tell me how that doesn’t unilaterally prove that Moss was indeed just banning people over petty ass reasons?
Oh I openly criticized their decision to remove comments about Jury Nullification in the wake of the Luigi shooting too. Said that I would refuse to remove any comments from TenForward if any popped up and I stand by that.
If the admins want to remove me and the community, then they’re allowed. That’s their prerogative. But Star Trek stands for something quite specific and I fully back it. I am not allowing misinformation or censorship and I’ll toss in a couple Trek quotes to back me up.
Starfleet as fuck.
To be honest I stood with them on that one, at least as best I understood the facts though I preemptively should state that I may have been wildly off:-). A moratorium on such content for a handful of days while they research the legalities - that like CP could legit land someone in actual jail - seemed appropriate to me.
The details matter there - and again I am not fully aware of them - like what country the instance itself is located in (I don’t even recall?), and what the ramifications are of allowing such discussions, both there and in their target nations. I guess the majority part of what I’m saying is that having such discussions are one thing, if decided upon in advance, but if the admins were surprised and nervous and worried about whether the entire instance could be taken down, due to EU rules or whatever, then that panic on their part made sense to me? And sure enough, they relented and now I think discussions on exactly and precisely that topic are allowed, iirc?
Overall though, the continuation of the Threadiverse is too important to allow one single discussion here or there to threaten the entire thing. Bc if instances running Lemmy end up getting banned in the USA, for example, that only leaves the likes of corporatified Reddit, X, Facebook, and I guess Bluesky now. And those are horrible options (even as Lemmy is not ideal itself, yet it does expand upon someone’s choices and that is fucking superb:-). So anyway, I am sympathetic to their panic response in that particular situation (far less so to the subsequent whole deal with the flat earth points, and at least the jury nullification issue in isolation I felt like I understood that). Modding is a hard job (as I know that you know!:-) and I can only imagine how the responsibilities differ for an admin, with their irl actual name exposed to the legal authorities and vulnerable in ways that none of us here are, as mere users or even mods, unless we choose it - but for them, it’s not a choice, they must expose that in order to comply with the legalities.