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FWIW, the community was [email protected].

I assume I was banned because I said I understood Biden opposing surgery on minors, specifically trans surgery. Although I disagreed with it.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Afaik lemmy.ml is pretty ban happy. For example, apparently you can't criticize the Chinese government:

https://lemmy.ca/post/591991

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I'm not able to access that link. But I saw where criticism of the government was treated as derogatory statements on the people.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Lol lemmy.ml is the biggest tankie instance in the fediverse. Really hoping lemmy.world defederates from them soon.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I hope not. They host a lot of interesting communities, and have a lot of users.

Interesting post from lemm.ee's admin on defederation as a last resort: https://lemm.ee/post/35472386?scrollToComments=true

And I'm saying this as someone who's been trying to get [email protected] as a viable alternative to the Lemmy.ml community

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh. I forgot about them being tankies.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

lemmy.ml is a tankie community, so this is not that surprising. It's a matter of time before I get banned from there too lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've seen the term tankie thrown around a lot recently. Can you please define it? I'm not quite sure I understand.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Nutshell: auth left.

In practice they'll stan any US adversary. Common themes include uyghur genocide denial, blaming nato for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Soviet atrocity apologia, the works.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

That seems completely reasonable. Move on. Take your respectful conversation where it's appreciated

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Interesting. Thank you! I didn't know that you could look that up. I don't think that was an option on the Connect app.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

lemmy.ml is just a ban-happy shitty instance with a ton of weirdos on it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is worldnews, or lemmy.ml remotely rational?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I guess they don't argue with people directly and the posts don't seem too bad. It's always mixed in with my other posts.

I didn't realize it was that extreme. I mean, my comment was literally just saying that a less progressive policy was still "reasonable" even if I didn't align with it.

I forgot about .ml being the tankies instance too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

I’d recommend not participating in communities whose mod policies you disagree with.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You imagine them as rational because they're generally on the same side as you. Now you learn that it's actually a trigger happy echo chamber that only cares to achieve it's goals.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I guess so. I don't mind like-minded spaces. But leaving no room for discussion just seems pointless.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a shit show that place, I've had comments removed too. I just left and blocked it from my feed. That's honestly your best option. Don't give it a, second thought.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thanks. I guess I'll have to start using my Beehaw account some more for some of my news.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Next step would be to proceed blocking every .ml community and joining the equivalent ones on other instances.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I'm going through and unsubscribing now from the few I was subbed to. One had a better community elsewhere since the last the last time I checked.

The only one I'm missing a replacement for is findacommunity, which I asked for on the community.

[–] ALERT 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yeah, this is the reason I don't write many comments on Lemmy. you first write a comment, and then find out that you have already been banned for the previous one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

That's usually not the case on other communities