Way better! Thank you!

Wait till you get to be super old like me. The shit my brain makes up aren't even plausible memories!

Yeah got censored on several occasions for shilling third party as a way to deny the regime legitimacy.

Some Lemmy's have short memory and conveniently forget that this used to happen all the time. Now Lemmy is pretty cool with third-party advocacy. But just 8 months ago, it was ban-worthy to say you were pro third-party! lmao

but you must have made an extra strong impression for them to go around to bully you

I never backed down. That made them very angry. They even started a fediverse article titled "I'm calling for the Fediverse to Ban Universal Monk." Someone posted a link to it in this thread. Even in that though, there was nothing that I did that was ban-worthy.

Seems weird to start an entire post about someone, but ban the subject of the post from being able to reply.

A lot of Lemmy's like to say they stand for diversity. But they don't mean diversity of viewpoints.

Before the US election, I was openly pro–third party. I supported the Green Party, then switched to a Socialist party. At the time, Lemmy was hostile toward anyone not backing Biden and Harris. If you mentioned third-party voting, people called you a traitor or a Russian plant. Since I didn’t vote for Biden, they assumed I was voting for Trump—even though I actually voted for Socialist party.

Lemmy’s more open to third parties now that both major parties have shown their flaws, but the old 'UM is a conservative' smear stuck. Never mind that I voted socialist and have posted hundreds of articles on socialism, anarchism, piracy, and third-party politics.

If I were actually conservative like they are saying, why would I post hundreds (literally hundreds!) of socialist and pro-union articles? Wouldn't that negatively affect any conservative views?!

My entire post history is public on this instance and other instances: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/UniversalMonk?page=1&sort=TopAll&view=Posts

The fuck are people thinking? lol

Also, OP isn't banned from any of my communities, so no idea why people seem to think the post is about me. OP never mentioned me, and I have nothing to do with OP's post. So no idea why people are bringing me up in the thread.

Brah, I get how you're feeling, but your post will not be welcomed here. I commend you for trying though.

Always wait for the complaint before ya defend yourself. Always.

Some people are gonna give you grief about this, but you raise an interesting point. I was just talking about this the other day with my gf and my son over a vegetarian dinner we were having. There is more and more research about plants be more intelligent (for lack of better word) than we thought before. Still kinda taboo in science circles, but it is being discussed and looking into.

Motherfuck, you write more than I do. I fucking love it. Don't stop! You are def adding content to this discussion and it's given me a lot to think about!

All: I get that you all really enjoy busting my balls, and it's fun to speculate. But OP hasn't mentioned me. OP is not banned from any of my communities. None of what OP is talking about has anything to do with me.

In this thread (at the time I'm writing this), there are maybe 2 or 3 replies about the actual OP complaint. The rest are about me and how I have ruined Lemmy. Cool story bro, but NOT cool to the original poster.

Have some respect for OP. How'd you feel if you posted what you thought was a valid complaint, then the whole fucking thread devolved into talking about an entirely different subject?

You don't need to voice ur suspicion that you think I'm the OP or the mod or whatever the fuck latest Universal Monk Eats Russian Cock for Bitcoin conspiracy is or that I am for sure, positive, without a doubt, ok well 90 percent sure every single boogy man you hate. We get it.

Most n00bs don't give a fuck that I didn't carefully shave and suck Biden's nutsack while looking up into his thoughtful loving eyes and saying, 'I love capitalism daddy Biden, I love it.' Stick to the subject of OP's situation, and calm the fuck down. Talking about me seems to be way off-topic.

I'm not the conservative mod that OP is talking about. Why in the world would I have two completely different personas on opposite sides of the political spectrum? Why would I post hundreds of socialist and pro-union articles, then go post conservative shit under another name? Y'all have lost your damn minds.

I'm only going by the information that the OP posted. OP did say '...so I got out of there. The next day I see more of his junk and go to downvote but can’t because I’m banned.' and then he goes on to admit 'Sure it was a dick move to poke the bear about his lifestyle of only posting things that get downvoted'

So it seems like he posted to just get a reaction. And it looks like he dm'd the mod first, making fun of him and mod responded. But neither he or the OP have responded to any of the comments in the thread, so we have no idea of what's really going on.

Most of my communities are here on dbzer0 and sh.itjustworks, so I have no desire to move. But I did hear that a new update was coming up to allow more tools for mods. Maybe what you are suggesting is in there?

Well because the line of thinking is that if you are banned, then have start on a different instance and post on the place where you are banned, it's ban-evading. Just giving you the heads up. I personally don't care if you post here or not, I have no issues with you. Just saying that you are sorta admitting out loud to ban-evading.

Dbzer0 banned me like two years ago or so already anyways.

Wow, this sounds like you are ban evading then. Hmmmm...

Why do you keep sticking around and reading shit you don't like? And for most, you can tell by the title if it's gonna be something you are interesting in reading.

How about you read it, think to yourself, "that fucking sucks" and move on. Why do you have to rate it with a vote? Why are you trying to let people know you didn't like it?