Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It’s not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don’t want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that’s not the case in any of the communities I’ve been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
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    7 个月前

    lemmy.ml is an instance well-known for being, shall we say… unreasonable when it comes to politics.

    The admins and a large portion of the user base are tankies— people who claim to be extreme leftists/communists but really worship the likes of Stalin, Xi and the oppressive authoritarian government of regimes, such as the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea. They are very much intolerant any criticism whatsoever or anyone else’s political views. Unfortunately, the administrators of that instance are also the main developers for Lemmy itself.

    This is why the code has been forked to another platform alternatives to lemmy have been developed, such as PieFed, which is federated and interoperates with Lemmy, and is not dependent on the crazy ass developers. It also has better mod and admin features. but even if you don’t wanna switch to PieFed, you can at least avoid communities on Lemmy.ml. I have the whole instance blocked.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
      1·
      7 个月前

      piefed is not a fork, it’s a completely different codebase. with plenty of its own problems.

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 个月前

        oh, my mistake. with a quick google, I see that it’s python, not rust, so yeah, obviously not a fork. my mistake!

        • lime!@feddit.nu
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          7 个月前

          did you also see the opinionated parts? if you enable the default filter list piefed hides all meme and 4chan communities and enables built in image recognition specifically to prevent people from posting greentexts. it also keeps an internal tally of user “quality” based on what communities they post in.

          truly everything is political.

    • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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      7 个月前

      Piefed isn’t a fork, it’s a completely different piece of software using the same protocol.

      I don’t think the Lemmy Devs have much to do with the bans on that server, it’s mostly the community mods.

      • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
        1·
        7 个月前

        I’m not sure where I heard it was a fork, but I’m obviously misremembering.

        fixed

        • RobotToaster@mander.xyz
          1·
          7 个月前

          It’s an easy mistake to make, I only know they’re different because piefed is python while Lemmy is rust.

        • AzuranAurora@piefed.caEnglish
          1·
          7 个月前

          I’ve said before that if Dessalines spent half as much time developing the platform instead of banning people for wrongthink, Lemmy would be a much better platform.

          • Grail@multiverse.soulism.netEnglish
            0·
            7 个月前

            Lemmy donations are a scam. People give them all that money, and they use the money to hire full time developers, who spend all day banning people instead of writing code.