Hey, I recently received a 14-day ban from lemmy.ml for this comment:
While I suppose it wasn’t the nicest thing I could have said, here’s what bothers me. They cited rule 1 as the ban reason. Now, lemmy.ml’s news community doesn’t have its own rules section, so I was left to assume that they were applying the instance-wide “rule 1” which was, “no bigotry”.
No Bigotry.
Apparently calling someone a tankie and a redfash accelerationist is bigotry? Are they seriously trying to equate being a tankie with being trans, gay, black and/or native american? Seriously? That’s incredibly bigoted and offensive; and that’s ignoring the fact that the common tankie idols like Stalin, Putin, Xi Jinping and Kim Jong-un are deeply intertwined with things like nationalism, ethnic superiority, queerphobia and the like.
Meanwhile, their modlog shows that they’ve dealt with multiple instances of actual queerphobic bigotry by removing the comment while also letting the user go.
Do we really want to be associated with bigots like that?
The thing that sucks is that there are communities I genuinely enjoy on lemmy.ml, however getting banned for bigotry after calling someone a tankie and redfash accelerationist while actual bigots are allowed to keep hanging out on lemmy.ml is like a slap to the face.
I’m honestly considering leaving Lemmy and social media at this point. It seems like my two choices are corporate-owned black-box algorithms populated by soft-spoken bigots and pissed-off centrists looking for an axe to grind, and FOSS-based federated platforms where you still have to tolerate bigotry because there apparently aren’t enough users and interesting content otherwise.
Inb4 I start getting harassed by lemmy.ml admins or something.
Receipts (click links for images)
(No rules for lemmy.ml/c/news)
