Yeah it’s weird that you can see the posts. They are definitely hidden when I view this thread from other accounts.
It’s just kind of shitty going around and participating and trying to help grow a platform which doesn’t want me here for some reason, and to be just randomly banned from places without any knowledge or warning, and to only figure it out because my posts aren’t getting any engagement. I honestly didn’t realize I’d clicked on a .ml link. I actually have been avoiding stirring the pot on .ml, but this ban was from a .world thread and was a pretty tame joke. It’s incredibly frustrating and a bit disturbing to be targeted like this, and I can’t help but think the public voting has something to do with it.
I’d happily live and let live with the .ml politics. I’m not trying to tell them how to think. I’m trying to grow their platform. I don’t like this idea of excusing them for this kind of behavior like so many people on here do. It’s hypocritical, petty and very shady and the people who are ultimately in charge of this technology should be held to a higher standard.
I’m not trying to tell them how to think. I’m trying to grow their platform
I think the part you are missing is they only want ml platform growth from users they don’t see as being impolite or bigoted towards the political apparatus of China.
This isn’t in the nature of an “excuse”, it’s an explanation. The fediverse isn’t the old model where a company serves the public.
In terms of responsibility for tech itself, when the reddit exodus to the fediverse began, a number of people saw the Lemmy dev committment to marxist leninism as antithetical to the views they themselves wanted to espouse, and opted for other ActivityPub tech like Miskey, Mastodon, or Kbin instead.
Yeah it’s weird that you can see the posts. They are definitely hidden when I view this thread from other accounts.
It’s just kind of shitty going around and participating and trying to help grow a platform which doesn’t want me here for some reason, and to be just randomly banned from places without any knowledge or warning, and to only figure it out because my posts aren’t getting any engagement. I honestly didn’t realize I’d clicked on a .ml link. I actually have been avoiding stirring the pot on .ml, but this ban was from a .world thread and was a pretty tame joke. It’s incredibly frustrating and a bit disturbing to be targeted like this, and I can’t help but think the public voting has something to do with it.
I’d happily live and let live with the .ml politics. I’m not trying to tell them how to think. I’m trying to grow their platform. I don’t like this idea of excusing them for this kind of behavior like so many people on here do. It’s hypocritical, petty and very shady and the people who are ultimately in charge of this technology should be held to a higher standard.
I think the part you are missing is they only want ml platform growth from users they don’t see as being impolite or bigoted towards the political apparatus of China.
This isn’t in the nature of an “excuse”, it’s an explanation. The fediverse isn’t the old model where a company serves the public.
In terms of responsibility for tech itself, when the reddit exodus to the fediverse began, a number of people saw the Lemmy dev committment to marxist leninism as antithetical to the views they themselves wanted to espouse, and opted for other ActivityPub tech like Miskey, Mastodon, or Kbin instead.