For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
I got banned from lemmy.world/c/linuxsucks, which is one person’s mental illness, so who cares? Doesn’t stop me from calling them an idiot when they show up elsewhere.
Never heard linuxsucks be described more accurately.
That user showed up in the thread warning about someone spreading fud about Wikipedia to attack OP. Safe to say, whoever they are, they have multiple accounts for their obsessions.
Linux is the expression of the collective mental illness of thousands of mentally ill computer hobbyists.
Just because I am mentally ill mean doesn’t mean I use Linux. I mean I do use it, but not because I’m mentally ill.
Wow, somebody that day was salty, and pretty much just looking for a comment to get mad about.
There’s another FOSS project idea: a bot that detects Lemmy bans and sends you a notification about it.
Another idea, take the mod log and allow voting on mod actions in a way that makes unpopular ones more visible. Give the users tools to evaluate moderators and admins to speed up the process of removing bad mods or users discovering they shouldn’t bother with an instance with bad admins. Or, with a different sorting method, it could highlight mods that aren’t power tripping losers.
Maybe a similar system for reporting, since it wouldn’t surprise me if some mods feel like they need to act because of pressure from losers who power trip with the report button. You know, the kind that feels the need to inform people they’ve been reported.
well you could just make a lemmy community about spurious bans and people could vote on it, and you could tag them in the comments somewhere….
suggested name: Cheka
I love it.
Cheka: Cheka if you’re banned or your content is removed.
rings well but also had a historical meaning the fucks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheka
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That’s when you start using “Greetings, human beings”
And then your computer starts making angry co-pilot noises
Hey volks.
Greetings loved ones, let’s take a journey
Imagine going out of your way to mod based on shit posted else where.
I have been saying this… We have too much modding for no fucking reason.
We literally got 50k AMU, and half the modding is based on vibes, I don’t like the tone or content of the comments
As if there is not enough real modding to go around lol
I have been saying this… We have too much modding for no fucking reason.
This should open up an opportunity for people who don’t support mod abuse to create communities that don’t enable it.
I am unfit for positions of authority but point taken
The mod to user ratio in some of the communities is way out of whack. Just start with one mod who does nothing except manage spam and actual harmful content posted explicitly to be harmful. If the community ever grows so much that more mods are required, add only as needed and not more. And do the absolute minimum to make the community a good place to be, so it has a chance to grow and flourish.
What I’m saying is mod in moderation.
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Wouldn’t be a leftist platform if they didn’t spend the majority of their time and effort self policing based on their purity tests instead of doing something actually productive
I still remember watching that socialist convention that spent an hour doing nothing but teaching people to wave their hands in the air to signal applause and running someone down that dared to use the word “guys”. Point of Personal Privilege, my ass.
The People’s Front of Judea vs the Judean People’s Front!
Blahaj mods (especially the one modding ghazi, transgender and 196) are the worst kind of mods. They promote blatant misinformation, remove posts calling said misinformation out, and they ban people and label them transphobes despite there being no transphobic words or implications whatsoever in your comments.
Just block the entire instance and move on. There are better instances that better represent the lgbt community.
Source: my ban message is the same as yours, and I have never said or implied anything remotely transphobic.
What I hate about blocking instances is that I no longer seem to get inbox notifications when a member of the instance comments on something in response to me, outside of that instance.
Like, my beef isn’t with blahaj users, and I don’t want to unintentionally ignore them because their admin/s are nutballs.
Unless it’s hexbear in which case the users are also nuts
Basically everyone on Lemmy not sucking their toes is a transphobe, even if you’ve never said a single word about trans people at all.
They do have persecution complex while most of the world doesn’t give a shit about their existence.
People who care deff don’t post on Lemmy either so they need to make up the enemy from a pool of normal shit posters
What are the better instances?
There isn’t (Although Lemmy.World & programming.dev are)
They named their instance after an IKEA product so I can only assume it’s a group of trans capitalists who fawn over corporations
I’m gen x dude also has no gender.
dude is masculine in every definition i’ve found (looked it up) except for a city slicker new to a ranch…
i’ve always known it to be gender neutral… but i have a female friend that gets offended every time someone calls her that.
but the fact that it keeps happening means that it’s gender neutral to all of those people too (she’s a fairly feminine female).
that said, it’s best to just call people terms that they are comfortable with, not ones that you’re comfortable calling them.
personally, i find calling a single person they/them a little obtuse, but it’s not really that hard. (slightly confusing when there’s a question of whether im referring to them or a group of people).Except when it comes to cultural/generational uses of words. Every generation has words they use in a altered way. Dude was one such word when I was young. It was used by my generation in a way that didn’t exactly match the definition. Just like all the other generations use words out context with their written definitions. Its why I laugh when the younger generations get mad because they think they invented the concept.
yeah, it’s almost as if language is an evolving thing….
but fuck that noise, i only accept definitions from the 1876 edition of Merrium-Webster… all other usages are wrong.
(i do seriously had when the nounify a verb like “cringe” or making “sus” mean anything at all bad…
i kinda agree but does “i fuck dudes” sound right?
Its your choice.
It depends on the context. The term has generally become more generic, but some contexts can put it back to its original gendered meaning.
who cares. some of these communities are trash who don’t allow you to participate if you don’t align with their views. no different than reddit.
OP’s complaint is that he was not aware of the ban so he was commenting into nothing.
This is really software issue, they can ban him, and he can block them back. No problem at all.
The issue is that these servers are blocking new people and they might get pissed about not knowing it. This is UX issue for fediverse.
On top of it, these bans are arbitrary and capricious for the most part, so again, this will piss anyone who does know how fediverse works.
We got 50k AMU, with too many mods with nothing to do, so they find busy work.
fair but I’ve been banned because I didn’t follow the flow of the political narrative of the conversation. I don’t consider myself squarely in one camp so I read, understand, and comment/criticize what I feel I want to engage with. I will admit i was auto banned from one instance and got no response from anyone, so I can relate to what your comment is getting at.
I didn’t follow the flow of the political narrative of the conversation.
There is a lot of censorship on lemmy both personal bias and outright regime narrative support.
That’s a huge issue, no doubt.
From the Book of the Dude, the holy book of the Dudeism religion:
Incidentally, the term “dude” is commonly agreed to refer to all genders. Most linguists contend that the diminutive “dudette” is not in keeping with the parlance of our times.
So what you’re saying is that ban is religious discrimination?
They could not in fact get over it, dude.
They must feel very strongly about the word dude. I’m in your camp on it. It’s an exclamation, nothing more 🤷
Joke’s on them, I’ve shadow banned them.
Wow. That is about the tamest comment that’s ever gotten someone banned.
I’ve seen worse for just for putting criticism in threads asking for user’s “questions, concerns, requests and issues”. And at the admin level, in a major instance where they never really apologized or corrected themselves until a couple of months later without really assuming any blame.
Yeah. Saying anything that isn’t overwhelmingly supportive of transpeople is just asking to be mod abused.
Unfortunate world we live in, but thanks for fighting back.
Blahaj is essentially the padded room of Lemmy. The users there never ever ever want to see a difference in opinion, a naughty word, or a thought provoking comment. They want to be victims and talk about cute stuff. Completely within their rights to make their instance the most cringe thing on the Internet and yet another example of leftists fighting other leftists and pointing fingers at one another over minor issues while conservatives actually are exterminating minorities at record pace and creating laws and regulations to destroy lives. It might be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
Thought that was Beehaw?
Definitely more beehaw. They don’t like when other instances don’t follow their rules…
I’ve had nothing but thoughtful and pleasant interactions with users from Beehaw, so what’s the tea with them?
They ban anyone for being a dick.
As is their right to? Like the whole point of Beehaw is to foster a positive environment. I’ve disagreed with many people there (including their admin, I’m pretty sure) without getting banned.
Sure, but this community is full of ban baiters and dicks looking for validation.
Weren’t they the ones who defederate any instance that allows the word “poop”?
I…have no idea? I don’t really know any Lemmy lore outside of that time everyone was posting beans. But my instance doesn’t ban “poop” and I can clearly see Beehaw, so probably not.
Is there a lemmy version of r/subredditdrama? Because that would be helpful lol
Not literally but aren’t they the ones that basically don’t federate with anyone because they have the moderation policies of Nick Jr and allow basically nothing more scandalous than “If You’re Happy And You Know It” in?
Again, I don’t know. My instance seems to be fine with them, and I wouldn’t say it’s Nick Jr here. I also just see the same news/tech/whatever posts on Beehaw as the ones on .world or whatever, so I don’t even know what the content difference would be.
But now I’m just even more curious about any potential mod/admin drama regarding these defederations, damn it.
I came over fairly early during the Rexodus and a lot of the scuttlebutt was about Beehaw defederating basically anyone who had an open sign-up policy, which includes sh.itjust.works.
"It’s completely within their rights, but I’m still going to make a paragraph-long complaint about it, even though it doesn’t affect me.’
Yes that’s how internet discussions work chief…
Do you want him banned too now?
Yes, I’m aware that Internet discussions are often full of people complaining about shit that doesn’t affect them. I’m still going to point out that it’s stupid.
Is… Is this not exactly that?
Blahaj and beehaw are almost as annoying as the tankies.
Tankies don’t do perma bans tho… They do 1 month gulag for disrespect to daddy shepooh.
There is at least some consistency there.
These clowns are essentially see a comment they dont like else where then go ban the commenter on the sub their are modding.
This behaviour is not not normal people
This also happened to reddit but modlog really exposing how a lot of modding decisions are vibes based or out right censorship
I assure you, they do permabans
