I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

  • Flying SquidEnglish
    14•1 year ago

    Those of us who want to freely discuss geopolitics without fear of getting banned care.

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      There are multiple world politics communities and multiple other news/politics communities that also discuss world politics. One community going ban happy is irrelevant.

      • SpziEnglish
        3•1 year ago

        who cares?

        Those of us who want to freely discuss geopolitics without fear of getting banned care.

        Then do it from a different instance?

        To move to another instance you have to be aware of the issue. To be aware of the issue you have to care about it.

        it’s their instance. Complaining about it flies in the face of what lemmy is entirely about.

        Or do I not understand the entire point of lemmy?

        Maybe just one half. True, one half is that every instance can do what it wants.

        The other half is, that users can do what they want. In order to be able to do what they want, they need information about instances.

        People speaking up about what many people would consider frown-worthy instance behaviour is an important part of that process.

        We are free to warn each other.

      • Flying SquidEnglish
        -1•1 year ago

        Totally transferring to another instance and losing your post history is kind of a shitty solution when they could just not have authoritarian moderators instead. They’re also Lemmy’s developers.

        • KaynEnglish
          7•1 year ago

          You can always observe and research the instance you’re about to create an account on to protect yourself from unpleasant surprises.

          This is not a new development for lemmy.ml.

          • SuperDuperEnglish
            4•1 year ago

            I joined back in June and lemmy.ml was absolutely doing all of this shit back then. Anything even mildly critical of China was banned for “orientalism.” They’ve never been shy about the fact that their instance is run by tankies.

        • Chozo
          3•1 year ago

          Totally transferring to another instance and losing your post history is kind of a shitty solution

          You don’t have to do that, though. You can just post on a different instance from your normal account.

          Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe instance admins can remove your content that’s posted to another instance.

          • Flying SquidEnglish
            0•1 year ago

            And I just explained it. Do you want it in Spanish or something?

              • Flying SquidEnglish
                -4•1 year ago

                You’re free to abandon your account and they’re free to not hire authoritarian moderators. Why should it be on you and not them?

                  • Flying SquidEnglish
                    -5•1 year ago

                    If I go to a mechanic and they put Nazi literature in my car, I have a couple of options. One would be to just switch to another mechanic and not say anything. The other would be to let everyone know about the car place that puts Nazi literature in your car to shame them into firing whoever it was that did it.

                    You would take option one. I consider that cowardly.