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Banned from TechTakes@awful.systems <mailto:TechTakes@awful.systems> for Fascism (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Icytrees@sh.itjust.works to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Yeah, I don't know what's going on here. Looks like a mod having a breakdown. I posted the rest for context and I'm in the middle.

I got linked to the comment chain from elsewhere. The comment had a link to a tech dude's blog, supposed to point out his white supremecism. I didn't see anything bad in that article, but stumbled on another one with nazi apologia, thought they may have linked the wrong article, posted it. That's it. That's all I did.

I guess it is called awful.systems and the culture confuses me, but man, what a dick move to call me a facist in the modlog.

If nothing else, I hope this drama is entertaining.

Edit: Because this is, well, the internet: I was not defending DHH. Another removed/banned comment said they couldn't find anything bad in that link either, so I found one where DHH was being more blatant in his bullshit.

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[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 4 days ago

A.S Has a very itchy ban finger generally and often assumes everyone is as knowledgeable as them so they tend to see behavior like yours as deliberate trolling (or in your case, likely crypto-fascism). It's really the sort of place one needs to "lurk moar" before interacting. I personally don't like how hostile their instance treats people stumbling in, because it often causes drama and false positives like this, but OTOH this allows them to run a tight ship and not have to deal with cryptofash and libertarian shite which can be exhausting.

Ultimately it is what it is and A.S has a tiny impact on the threadiverse relatively. Other than that I agree that it's not cool to label people fascists at the drop of a hat in the modlog but perhaps their admins will pop in and explain if they saw actual fash behaviour.

[-] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 16 points 4 days ago

I can see that, and thanks for the explanation. I clicked around a bit after to double-check rules and see if I got the context wrong. But yeah, seems like it was my inexperience with the community and aggressive modding.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Got a perma ban from there for reporting another user that jumped straight to cussing me out after I gently corrected a typo they made. Ended up with a ban because (shockingly) another user also found that disproportionate and reported as well, and the admin accused us of collaborative "spurious reporting" 🙄 They also hid it from the modlog somehow/for some reason. Found that pretty sketchy.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 4 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a pretty

Awful

System of communities

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 days ago

It's standard lemmy behaviour. If you ban with content removal, the removed content doesn't make a modlog entry

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 8 points 3 days ago

it bugs me. language is imprecise and sometimes you get banned and the ban reason doesn't, in your head, map to what you were saying. and then that changes how anyone who looks you up thinks you think. i'd much rather have a system that makes it clear what exactly you said and what the problem was

[-] Flatworm7591@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago

It might be good to have the option of a right of reply in the modlog for the person being moderated, for each mod action?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago

Didn't/aren't the devs so anti accountability now that they don't even want mods names connected with actions?

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And of course mod names (not even aliases) go on the mod log, which is cool and good. At this point why does it even exist?

[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 5 points 3 days ago

They do, it's just lemmy hiding the mod usernames for normal users. Admins can see the moderator names in the mod log.

[-] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's still shitty. More deliberately but less terminally.

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 9 points 4 days ago

*shrug* All I know is any other ban or comment removal I've seen on my accounts has been accompanied by modlog entries.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

what a dick move to call me a facist in the modlog

Welcome to the club. Mods claiming people are fascists in public places they can't defend themselves seems to be a common occurrence here.

[-] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago

It's fucking weird how that word gets used against everyone and everything on this platform.

[-] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 3 days ago

I got banned with "fascist" as the only notes because I said tiananmen square happened. That's all. Didn't deny it, or say 100 million were killed in it. Just that the event as described happened.

[-] shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

If you have a single original thought that isn't 99% aligned with the mods on users of that instance, that's what happens, you're fascist /s

[-] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago

I'm in. As long as there's snacks at the meetings.

[-] Ganbat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago

What you said in the context you gave and the words in your removed comment track, so I'm gonna say PTB.

[-] Icytrees@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 days ago

Thanks, yo.

I even posted my old account info on my profile page when I joined a new instance, for transparency, with a comment history going back more than two years, showing I'm way more of a chronically online queer socialist.

[-] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah I blocked that instance since time back, their takes (and attitudes) were generally as awful as the systems they complain about

[-] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago

I've never been banned for (supposedly) being a fascist... but I've been banned plenty of times by shitlibs for (supposedly) being a tankie.

Here's little old me being a tankie, btw.

[-] dbtng@eviltoast.org 0 points 2 days ago

They are just assholes. Its really simple. You don't want to be there.

[-] jumping_redditor@sh.itjust.works -2 points 3 days ago

plenty of Lemmy instances love calling fact checking and sources "Facism"

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