So, I saw a report from one of my users. They reported:

https://ponder.cat/post/1594852/1813842

For the reason:

Unreasonable fighting with everyone in every simple post

I think that’s ridiculous, so I talked with them about it. Posting private communications is frowned upon I guess, but long story short, they weren’t receptive. I’ve decided to ban the account.

IMO the general culture on Lemmy is that users are entitled to their free account and everyone needs to be careful and circumspect about limiting that entitlement in any way, but I don’t see it that way. I don’t think it’s a requirement for me to provide hosting space for anyone who wants to use my stuff as a jumping-off point for abuse of Lemmy’s systems, and isn’t apologetic or receptive when I talk with them about not doing that. The fact that it’s in service of harassing FlyingSquid in particular is just icing on the cake, since my perception is that people like to harass him apparently for no legitimate reason at all (with this as an example).

AITA?

  • @Ledivin
    2•6 hours ago

    I think you came here to get a pat on the ass and have people agree with you, not to hear dissenting opinion.

    100000% this. There is literally NO consideration of any of the points brought up, simply OP pontificating around everyone else’s thoughts and coming to their own conclusion every time. It literally always comes back to “but it’s my instance,” which nobody has actually disagreed with.

    Moderate your own instance however you want, but they asked for a judgement and the consensus is nearly-unanimously against them.