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Got banned from Gaming@lemmy.zip community, because why not?
(reddthat.com)
WOW
I expected mods outside .world, .ml and beehaw to be kind of normal. Turns out nope.
Does everyone here exist to further his agenda and just that?
Did people just forget that talking exist?
It started to feel like:
On Reddit, the highest crime you can do is working againest the Algorithm.
On Lemmy, the highest crime you can do is just saying anything that people might not like.
BTW, none of my posts on the gaming community was political.
I guess I will have to wait for further bans to come, to be 100% sure that I am currently using the right communities.
Context. (Not sure)
Edit #1
The fuck? They banned me from their entire instance:
Idk I would still feel more comfortable if communities gave users a chance to explain themselves first. For example, I would be okay with preemptive bans if the user openly supports genocide. However, going on the linked context alone, OP could just be relaying propaganda accidentally, without the knowledge of why sharing such news can harm the public view of the victims of Israel and sway more opinions toward defending Israel's cruel actions (that started in October 2023, not including their constant cruelty towards Palestinians/Gazans over history).
It seems, as with a couple of comments in the contextual post, that simply relaying the news - in a news community no less - has triggered a few snowflakes. However the news itself is problematic, in that it implies that the abuse the hostages received actually happened, instead of focusing on the only fact - that an Israeli report states this.
My opinion stands - as important as it is to fight back against Zionism, cruelty against living beings and oppression of freedom, I believe community leaders should try to hear from the user directly, in order to determine if a ban is necessary.
Yea I agree. someone could very well be ignorant of the situation so I wouldn't do a preemptive ban if that were the case. but if they are aware they're parroting Zionist propaganda rubbish and continue doubling down on it despite being educated then I'd say a preemptive ban is justified
Yeah, that's more or less where I stand too, though the exact amount of effort a mod needs to put into contacting the user may be lower in my stance than in yours.
But I went further back and edited in a revised take. I think you're right that OP's account that the ban was issued on made a news post in a news community, and didn't engage in any fuckery in comments that merit the ban for that reason.
Doesn’t want Israel destroyed is enough to get banned for supporting genocide on many parts of lemmy. Many mods delete posts and ban users that don’t follow a pro Hamas political line, regardless if rules where broken or not.
My fiance is Jewish (disagrees with much of what Israel is doing tho and isn't very political). She was on here to check it out, and because I was hyping up the concept of Lemmy. She def wasn't a fan.
The hate for all things Jewish scared her to death and now she questions why I'm on here so much! lol
The extremism here, tho started out for rightful intentions, is starting to lean into antisemitism in some corners of Lemmy. It's very ironic and weird watching some posters go from anti-nazi everything to anti-jewish everything. Sometimes in the same comment.
I think ALL governments are assholes, so I'm somewhat indifferent to the entire thing.
I don't know what the fuck Lemmy is turning into though. I think some just wanna watch the world burn and will jump to whatever side has the matches.
If there was some instance that banned all political talk, I'd def hang out there for most of my time on Lemmy.
These people hate Israel with a passion and want it destroyed. They think of themselves as left and good people and that’s why it’s inconceivable to them they carry antisemitic ideas and tropes. They have become so radicalized everything positive or even neutral regarding Israel and Zionism is denied. Nuance or even engagement with the other side is strictly avoided.
At this point, some subs are straightup iranian propaganda. Worldnews etc. Then blabbering about integrity of sources is peak irony lol
At this point, almost all of the political or """news""" subs are just antisemitic circlejerks under the guise of the palestinian cause, moderated by powertripping armchair leftists.
Facts are antisemitic now?
that sounds like antisemitism, you nazi!
Not supporting killing children sounds like antisemitism to some these days.
Those kids were hummus!
Facts that got me banned: https://lite.cnn.com/2025/07/08/middleeast/hostages-gaza-sexual-violence-report-hamas-latam-intl
Yes facts
I thought you said "facts". You may as well end up in "OP is a fucking idiot" community if you keep pretending to be one 🙄
I love that it says coupled with forensic evidence then says none was taken as bodies were immediately buried