this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Is Sunshine Beaver's alt? If so then yeah i could understand why this happen.
I don't know about this and I also don't know if she is the one who deleted the comments and triggered the bans. In general, I appreciate her content. She is posting lots of interesting articles (not only in the vegan community) and I guess Lemmy needs people like her providing content to debate about.
Just if debate is not desireable, then I don't think it makes sense to post it to a social platform. Social platforms without interaction and different opinions are just dead link lists. Then I can also just set up a RSS reader on the news sites I'd like to follow.
No dispute here, i'm just saying this sorta remind me of the controversy beaver kick off 4 months ago in the vegan community, behaviour-wise it's very similar.
This is a fundamental problem with much of Lemmy TBH. There is zero room for discussion on any contentious topic. Period. You're either on the side the mods believe in, or are in a race to get moderated. It's a fundamental flaw with the federation concept. Because it is impossible to permanently purge legit trolls any semblance of it gets harshly dealt with because that's the only way to stem the tide of BS. Unfortunately this creates a huge chasm between any 2 viewpoints preventing any legitimate argumentation and fosters echo chambers.
Trump getting voted in is my go to example. Judging by all the posts, comments, and voting patterns it looked like that guy had zero policies anyone would vote for. It was a sure thing Harris was going to win. That whole fiasco proves how out of touch Lemmy is with the real world because it isn't treated as a forum for discussion.
Isn't Reddit the same? Looking at Reddit quickly, it seemed to be a sure Harris win
No, as it is not federated the underlying problems are different. There is less stress on moderators and dialogue is naturally constrained by the possibility of permanent banishment from the platform. I haven't been there in months but in my decade of using it previously I was never banned presumably because moderators aren't on a hair trigger or have oversight focused on the preservation of the platform above all else.
Is there stupidity and over-moderation on Reddit? Ofc. But, it is not the Wild West that Lemmy is.
Edit: FTR I'm not pro-Reddit either.
You can have a look at !reddit@lemmy.world, moderation there has changed quite a bit in the last months
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