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I got banned from world news for being pro Palestinians and the mods wouldn't even give me an answer as to why I got banned. Then when I kept asking I got a site wide ban for ""harassment"
Seems like I wasn't the only one falsely accused of spreading hate and and calling for violence.
It's simple, look at the skin color of the perpetrators and victims, and do a comparison. Easy!
why stay on world after that, what a shithole
What are you on?
I just recently got banned (I think, never got a response) from the politics sub for reporting another use that called me retarded. It's legit confusing. I literally reported them because it seemed out of pocket but apparently I said something offensive as well
I'm about ready to that go back to reddit, just using a web browser on my phone. This is place is asking users for a lot and people still don't seem to understand what a community is. All the pretty words people used when we migrated over was all BS apparently. It's weird since people clearly put in work but like, where are the mods/admins leading the community? Idk, maybe this stuff's just too hard for mostly socially-stunted people to manage (including myself, raised on video games and whatnot)
Shortly before I was permabanned I got an intensely hateful PM from someone who created a throwaway account just for that. He claimed that all Arabs are pedos and rapists and Islam is a disease of the mind and Arabs are infected. He glorified the genocide in Gaza because 'That's what you get for killing Jews'.
His master account is probably still active and unblemished. He was probably the guy whose reply I gave got me permabanned
Why not try a different instance? .world is by far the worst of the major instances and the most friendly towards transphobia, zionism, fascism, and left-punching.
Idk, it's honestly all a bit too confusing. I still don't get how this place works. I just use sync and even then some servers/instances or whatever will say I can't vote for certain posts/servers - idk, I'm assuming there's servers that get turned off at night or something
Have a recommendation? I only joined world because it seemed to have the least requirements for joining and was maybe more popular. I remember other instances requiring you answer a bunch of questions to join or something like that
"Instances" are like islands. There are other islanders you can interact with, with their own buildings, but people can visit your buildings from other islands. You can't make another island your "home," though, and just interact with their buildings. Some islands are on good terms, and some are on bad terms, and block each other.
What this looks like practically, are that you need to pick an instance that passes your vibe check. Scrolling by local on your home instance should be fun and engaging, and scrolling by "all" should show you more stuff you want to see.
Lemmy.world intentionally defederates from the more overtly Leftist instances, as an example, so it skews more right-wing.
Go to this instance explorer, check out interesting instances, and scroll locally, anonymously. See the vibe! If you like the vibe, make an account or apply for one, and start interacting. You don't have to delete your old account! I have 2, each on different instances, depending on my mood.
That was good info! Thanks
No problem! It takes a bit of trial and error to find a nice home or two, but it's generally better to get off of "generalist" instances and join something that fits your interests better.
Wait, so are there other politics instances? There isn't just the one?
I seem to get subs/instances for other communities that aren't from lemmy.world but only one politics community.
If there's another one that'd be great. I just realized the guy I reported is still commenting there while I was banned for 3 days. I kinda don't really feel like returning there if that's how they choose to run it.
Many different ones, like World News and US News on Lemmy.ml. Most instances host their own News and Politics instances, and you're blocked from seeing some on Lemmy.world.
Check which instance the News Community you got banned from was on, it might not have been Lemmy.world.
I got perma IP banned from reddit after engaging a pro Trumper in a debate about what candidate actually gives us any remote chance for legalization. They devolved to trolling. I matche their energy. Guess who's comments got downvoted to hell (the troll) yet still is allowed to keep their account.
I swear these people act like school staff who prioritize protecting bullies over their victims. I cannot count the number of times I was accused of being uncivil when I decided to match the bullshit of trolls and bullies.
It's because reddit had a rightwing mod takeover and they really do favor the bullies... like look at all the nazi stuff/subs there. Reddit is compromised
Yea. These people basically get ahead by taking advantage of the decency of others. But once you match their energy, How dare we be so indecent?
That's OK though. I now know what it takes for them to understand we can't be fucked with.
One thing I find interesting about Lemmy is that the modlog is public. This is the modlog for you on lemmy.ml (I assume you meant [email protected] since it seems to be the largest worldnews community). https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=1572077
Note to readers: I'm not saying this user did or did not do anything deserving of action against them, but I believe public modlogs are a useful tool for accountability.
I was talking about reddit, but yeah
Back when Reddit was both good and the only option, we could laugh about being banned from the Trump sub.
Lots of mods on my favourite bits of Reddit left for lemmy, they were replaced by admins and the admins' friends
It's easy now to get a site wide ban if you participate in big subs (and a myriad small subs with the same mods) and don't share the mods' politics
I got banned for criticising Israel too
my experience is such that people don't get these sweeping bans for having opinions. They get them for acting like sociopathic aggressive individuals.
And based on what I'm seeing when I check folks' profiles reiterating the same story... Yep it checks out more often than not. There's no discourse on the internet when it consists of calling people slurs in a weird barrage of insults. Those are the people who get banned here or there.