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Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

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[-] homes@piefed.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

lemmy.ml is an instance well-known for being, shall we say… unreasonable when it comes to politics.

The admins and a large portion of the user base are tankies— people who claim to be extreme leftists/communists but really worship the likes of Stalin, Xi and the oppressive authoritarian government of regimes, such as the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea. They are very much intolerant any criticism whatsoever or anyone else’s political views. Unfortunately, the administrators of that instance are also the main developers for Lemmy itself.

This is why ~~the code has been forked to another platform~~ alternatives to lemmy have been developed, such as PieFed, which is federated and interoperates with Lemmy, and is not dependent on the crazy ass developers. It also has better mod and admin features. but even if you don’t wanna switch to PieFed, you can at least avoid communities on Lemmy.ml. I have the whole instance blocked.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I have never missed lemmy dot ml. I blocked the instance at the first sign of reddit behavior.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

Its absolutely hilarious that there are two types of people in this thread, people who read your comments and people who see ml so assume it must be a PTB. How about you make it easier for everyone and post those offending comments?

[-] Skavau@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I can't actually see what your [deleted] comments say but even if they were objectionable to their rules in that community, revoking your access to other communities entirely irrelevant to memes@lemmy.ml seems completely PTB.

Especially as you've got BrainInTheBox there running rampant, as usual.

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[-] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

OP got banned from this community for "Bad jacketing and electoralism", and while I aint reading 125 comments to see bad jacketing, including electorialism as a ban reason is wild af.

Regardless if PTB or YDI, I think grass touching might be in order for multiple parties here for taking online politics LARP too seriously. It's a beautiful spring weather, perfect for a walk.

[-] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

PTB. The Democrats are better than the Republicans, but the tankies at ml don't want you to think so. Being a leftist is a bannable offence at the tankie triad.

[-] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 0 points 1 week ago

We really need another "it's .ml, they crazy, who cares?" Option.

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