Reddit supports open dialog as long as they agree with it
my brother in christ, I was banned from all lemmy.ml communities (fairphone, signal, selfhosted etc etc) because I dared talk about the uyghur genocide.
Lemmy is even worse.
Lemmy.ml is one instance.
Join smaller instances so no one instance can dominate on many topics.
We should avoid creating monopolies.
Lemmy.ml has the monopoly on certain topics. Such as signal. The biggest alternatove is on kbin with 130 members (opposed to 1.4k on ml)
Signal is a non-political topic, just make another account to post there.
It’s not just lemmy.ml… That’s the problem with any instance - that an idiot like me can just host one and be “the king”. Then a community grows, but the king still sits on the throne - whether he is qualified or not. Reddit had years to get rid of most of those issues with established modteams. Communities that had bad moderation faded away. Communities that “made it” had okayish mods since there were thousands of people to pressure a team acting like a-holes. Lemmy has barely any users compared to that, so a bad admin / moderator is more visible. Also, lemmy is heavily skewed towards echochambers, even more than reddit was.
Splitting communities just creates more issues - with having to crosspost to 2 or 3 groups of people who might not interact with one another. It’s honestly no wonder that there exists a “mega instance” in lemmy.world
Splitting communities just creates more issues - with having to crosspost to 2 or 3 groups of people who might not interact with one another.
[email protected] is taking over [email protected]
It mostly took a post on [email protected] and a ping to the regular posters
Provided everyone sees it and moves there and not just stops seeing the content altogether and forgets about it. Remember, social media is like 95% lurkers. Also this assumes you are moving instances instead of there being two already that have different people watching them / moderating them.
.ml admins (yeah, the lemmy devs themselves, sadly) and mods are tankies, of course they banned you for that.
Just join a sane, smaller instance; that’s the beauty of federation (and defederation of harmful instances like .ml or .world or hexbear).
The problem is that for some instances there’s no alternative to lemmy.ml
Signal for example has no federated alternative
But I am open to a moderated, defederated, sane inatance if you know any.
I’m glad you’re speaking out against Uyghur genocide, but having an israel flag in your username is kinda sus considering what’s happening in Gaza.
Understandable. Adding it was kind of a knee-jerk reaction after seeing someone unironically refer to hamas as “freedom fighters” and now it stays to show people not everyone shares their opinion on gaza. It can feel like An echo-chamber in here.
By no means do I think Netanyahus modus operandi is appropriate for this century, that’s not what I carry this flag for.
Umm nah please don’t do that.
Israel (as in the state, not the civillians living under them) is practially doing the same thing as what Hamas is doing, terrorism. Both are terrible groups. I don’t know which one is the worse one, but if someone claims one of them is “freedom fighters”, supporting their opposition isn’t helping whatever your argument might be.
I strongly disagree with you on that. Israel has a right to self defense. While the means might not be adequately / appropriately humane, saying they’re the same is like saying thw US are the same as the Nazis for bombing Dresden.
One is the aggressor, the other is not. We can gladly diacuss the means (again, fuck metanyahu and his seemingly complete disregard fpr human life) but that doesn’t change the fact tht one side wanted a war and the other was forced into it.
Plus the fact that wiping out Hamas will create an opportunity for lasting peace between Israel and Palestine (whether united or split into gaza and westjordanland) while not wiping it out will just make history repeat (or rhime) itself in a few years/decade(s)
Netanyahu should be sent to Den-Haag, but Hamas needs to be wiped out anyways.
You missed the beauty though in what happened though. Lemmy isn’t worse, one instance was. So here you are still.
Except I’m back to spending most of my time on Reddit again because the communities I most care about just so happen to be home on lemmy.ml
Only on mobile I still use lemmy because of the API disaster
There’s a movement to move most lemmy.ml-specific communities off of that instance and onto other instances, I’d recommend looking around for alternative communities to the ones you used before. A lot of people are tired of ml’s shitty moderation policies and overcentralization.
Yeah, but it just isn’t there yet. Look at [email protected]
Iz’s a de-facto monopoly and there’s nothing we can do.
What was the post?
Yeah, you can’t talk shit about ethnic cleansing with an Israeli flag in your username…
As I said back then:
Because I have an opinion on an Interstate conflict I’m nit allowed to oppose the genocide of uyghurs? Sounds like genocide-apologizing to me
Do you have any source on the Uyghur genocide? Because everything I’ve seen has been debunked.
Fuck off you fucking genocide-apologist
So I take it you have no source?
Because “y’all can’t behave”
Eh, as a former Reddit mod, when the majority of comments are racism/transphobia, the easiest way to handle it is to lock the post.
Yeah, it’s kinda laziness, but when you have a life and don’t want to babysit a post for the next day… you don’t really have many options.
I guess one option could be don’t make a commitment you don’t have time to fulfill.
Let the voting system do its job of crowdsourcing the suppression of unhelpful content.
When I was on reddit it was just a fact that there’d be a pile of trash accumulated at the bottom of each thread, made of comments that were stupid or toxic and collapsed because their score was negative. That layer of shit at the bottom was well-hidden and didn’t interfere with the productive discussion happening above.
The voting system to suppress content suppresses reasonable views and ends up with highly upvoted nazi shit. Not because everyone is a Nazi (arguable) but because nazis have a motivation to push an agenda.
If Nazi shit is highly upvoted, then the community is already lost.
The voting system works, for the most part. Moderation is just to get rid of the early comment bullshit, or cull the already downvoted to hell posts.
I really don’t understand when moderators burn entire comment trees or lock threads. It defeats the purpose of the whole system, and makes it look like the community can’t do its job.
Don’t get so haughty. Lemmy.world (based on the Netherlands) deletes posts and bans users that mention support for Luigi.
Earlier today I replied to a post on Lemmy.world about this problem, saw my post had many up votes and replied. But I couldn’t respond to any of them because the post had been deleted by mods.
Drag was banned from c/news for “misinformation and trolling” when drag said Luigi isn’t the shooter.
Surely it couldn’t possibly be because Drag is a shit-stirrer that goes around causing drama. At this rate I’m surprised Drag isn’t banned from more communities.
Y’alls fragile progressivism is always so funny.
You said it the wrong way! If you said how the mod liked it, they would not give you a 1 day ban
You should really think about your behaviour online edge lord!
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First off: Fuck reddit Fuck spez. Second and more important: All he needs is 1 person to agree. 1, that’s it.
And former moderator of r/jailbait, a Reddit community dedicated to posting pictures of underage girls. Don’t forget it
Mate, you’re the guy who advocated for the murder of landlords too, now advocating for the murder of CEOs, and you want to school others on morality? You’re just as rotten, if not worse.
Yes. If anything you’ve highlighted my track record for always supporting the morally right position.
If you think murder is morally right, then you can fuck off to some shithole in the middle East or Africa where warlords rule.
jeez dude we already knew he was in the ethically superior position, you don’t need to make him sound even MORE righteous.
Psychopath.
Murder? Such strong language. Is CEO killing really murder? If someone has so thoroughly surrendered their humanity as Brian Robert Thompson did, are they really human anymore? You can only commit murder against humans. I think of Thompson more akin to a cloth sack filled with bloody dollar bills than an actual human being. Ethically, what Luigi did is like collapsing a cardboard box or treating mold on a bathroom tile. Technically a destructive act, but hardly murder. There’s no need to use such inflammatory language to describe the disassembly of an inanimate object.
You literally go down the Hitler route now of dehumanizing people. Maybe stop for a second and try to listen to what you’re actually saying.
Because they don’t want to bother moderating all the dumbos glorifying the murder.
Glorifying the wrong kind of murder. If this had been a homeless guy on the subway getting strangled to death by someone the media felt comfortable venerating, Mangione would be sharing box seats with the Vice President right now.
Please show me an example where the glorification of a murder of a homeless person has been publicly accepted?
Celebrating a murderer seems like a perfectly valid reason to lock a thread.
Hmm idk man. They were celebrating when Osama Bin Laden died.
What does that have to do with this?
OBL was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people. Brian Thompson was responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent people.
The dots don’t need much connecting.
Can’t this same reasoning then be used to justify the murder of Obama?
Did you think this was some kind of gotcha? Plenty of people would celebrate that all the same.
Exactly. And they’d be no better than the people praising Luigi.
