this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2024
306 points (93.0% liked)

Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

278 readers
54 users here now

This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.

Rules

Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.


Some acronyms you might see.


Relevant comms

founded 3 months ago
MODERATORS
 

At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Translating .ml rules as they're actually enforced:

  1. Don't criticise Russia, China, or Hamas.
  2. Don't criticise ML, LG, HB.

Those rules are enforced regardless of the piece of criticism being valid or invalid.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Pick whatever instance you find first, they said. It doesn't really matter which one, you can participate all over lemmy, they said.

Now every time i post a comment, people automatically assume I'm pro Russia and a tankie on account of having an account on lemmy.ml

This sucks. I can't believe I'm gonna have to migrate instances to be taken seriously on discussions.

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

Don't migrate because of the assumers; migrate to not subject yourself to an incompetent admin team.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

sorry to hear that. My first account was on ML too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yeah same. I moved after seeing too many words being censored like removed.

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

I was flabbergasted when I found out the word Chicken was sometimes censored. It would put removeden. Really saved me from those nuggets of hurtful baby hens.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

See it in a positive way: now you can carefully choose an instance that you like compared to your previous account

Also, this must be my 10th alt. It takes a few minutes to export/import the settings and that's it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We don't believe you, you tankie vatnik.

/s obviously.

FYI, just making a new user on a different instance isn't a big deal. Guess why there's a "3" in my user name. Come to think of it, my first account was on lemmy.ml too, although the main reason why I moved at that time was because I forgot the password.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People are dumb everywhere. You're not really wondering about that hm? 😉 I wouldn't migrate because of that. Quite the contrary, the dumdums sort themselves out this way, saves a lot of time.

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

But what you also have to consider, migrating instances sends a signal. Its the same as people who stopped using twitter because of musk. When you continue using something you make it look like you font really care, so migrating your account is a good way to tell the admins that you dislike their policies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

While you're totally right regarding twitter, i can't say the same for those instances. I'm not deep enough in the matter to allow myself an opinion. I just don't know about any politics about any instance. If there is, you're totally right then too. Leaving is the best bet. If I'd knew my instance would wanna push a certain narrative, even if it'd be congruent with mine, I'd leave.

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

The Main Problem is, that the Admins are straight up tankies. They also have no problems banning you from all the communitys they moderate if you say something they don't like

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I just have to take your word for it, because I don't follow the meta-politics on Lemmy. I'm just a user :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

If you're interested in it you can take a quick roundtrip about this community and you will see quite some examples of the Lemmy.ml Admins being tankies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I could see a strong argument for personal safety around such a question (potential for self-incrimination and going through windows) but bigotry is a head scratcher.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Serious question.. how?

Is everything on Lemmy traceable back to the source?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If it's networked, it's traceable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm using a VPN. How would that work?

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

VPNs didn't make things untraceable at all. That's not what they are for. They are just a method for encrypting traffic between two networks that have connectivity to the public Internet. Traffic from your machine to the VPN entrypoint gets routed just like any other network traffic. A relatively passive MitM can readily see where packets are going to/arriving from based upon the headers.

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

ips are probably logged somewhere between here and there

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I legit would not be surprised if Dessalines takes money from some unsavory people to operate .ml as a kind of information war training ground.

User donations are certainly not generating him any real cash flow.

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

I'd be surprised if Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear don't get funding from the Kremlin/CCP

[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I like it here on lemmy. But people like this being main devs leaves sour taste to it

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

I think a lot of people are going to switch to piefed once that gets more fleshed out. It federates with all lemmy but has a different and more open dev team working on it. They already have a bunch of cool features lemmy is currently lacking.

load more comments (12 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 81 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

The thread the comment was in. Seemed like a very relevant question.

https://lemmy.world/post/21619412

Note that dessalines isn’t even a moderator of the community, but a lemmy.ml instance admin. Instance rule 1 is related to bigotry, so according to Lemmy dev dessalines, it’s bigoted to ask the russian population if they are oppressed or support their country invading ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

That's mod rule 1. Admin rule #1 is "Don't get visited by the KGB".

Maybe we shouldn't hang out on servers where Russia has jurisdiction.

load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

To be fair, the first part of the sentence kinda sounds like an accusation against Russians. However, it isn't something i would consider worthy to be deleted.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago

Tankies gonna tank. Never question the orthodoxy in an echo bunker.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I remember when the Ukraine war started and in the comments of one of the first reddit posts were full of Russian people saying how they hated it and they just wanted peace. Nowadays I can't remember the last time I saw someone who is Russian on reddit or Lemmy really.

load more comments
view more: next ›