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

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Obviously a bit thin skinned, but IMO lemmy.ml can do what they want with their moderation. It is not anybody else’s decision how they moderate, except of course keeping it legal.

    Seems to me almost all those comments are somewhat offensive, for instance calling people tankies, claiming they should go back under their stone, and frequently use the word fuck, as if those are some sort of argument. I’m guessing rule 2 is something about not being rude. Personally I find that perfectly OK not to allow rude comments.

    OP should “read the room” better, then maybe they could have a proper debate.

    PS: I am absolutely pro Ukraine, and against the Russian war and occupation of Ukrainian territory, and I totally agree with much in for instance the bigger highlighted post, good points IMO, but then he ends it with a tankie offense?

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        1 year ago

        Truly sad to see a majority is down voting this, meaning they believe free speech includes how a lemmy instance is moderated?!

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      except of course keeping it legal

      This is also up to them. If the admins are ok to get corresponding consequences - they can do this.

      Posts like this posted here from time to time.

      And I think the main problem is: the fact that an instance has a very strong political view and even a censorship becomes a big surprise for people using this exact instance.

      It looks like an instance and community policies must be somehow better visible.

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      About 30% (just my estimate) of the people here from Reddit had a problem with mods having too much freedom granted to them by Spez. There is an irony that such people would be attracted to a decentralized network where instances have even more freedom to shape their communities, but as you said- it doesn’t really matter what people think when anyone can go start their own.

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      Yeah the first ban I got was warranted, but this time it was just using the word “genocide” consistently with the UN definition. That’s chilling as fuck and goes way beyond simple “stated moderation standards.” That’s straight up information warfare.

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        “Don’t worry, if you correctly call this a genocide, hexbear will ban you for genocide denial without a hint of irony.”

        If you were already on thin ice, this shouldn’t have really been a surprise. Like most internet dwellers who get banned somewhere you’re dressing up your offending comment to make it seem like persecution, but while it’s not a heinous comment on its own, but if you have history I can absolutely see a mod not wanting to deal with you trolling the hexbears. And it certainly wasn’t just “using the word genocide”.