Tankies keep posting “NATO-backed Zionists” on the comm. It’s completely delusional because China, Russia, India, etc. all support Zionism as well. I was banned for pointing this out. I knew I was going against tankie narratives so I’m not surprised. It’s still pretty pathetic. Tankies literally value their alt-empire over actual meaningful anti-zionism.
FWIW I’m not especially anti-tankie either. I consider them the same as libs. People who are def better than fash but not necessarily allies.
I don’t like the echo chember argument. For example ukraine sub will rightfully remove anything from tankis regarding the war of agression russia started.
Why though? What’s the benefit of this?
Tankies are mostly wrong about everything but occasionally they make a good point. These ideological bannings are pointless and create harmful echo chambers.
I’m OK with it if you’re creating a highly curated space where only sourced, factual information is permitted but that requires a lot of work and I’ve never seen it done on Lemmy.
You don’t need to be so knowledgeable or do long research to know that Russia is the agressor
Obviously but I guess I’m just saying people are wrong about a lot of things a lot of the time and I think a ban is a really excessive response to that.
Is c/ukraine on .ml?
I suppose that mrdown meant !Ukraine@sopuli.xyz.
Yes
Then there’s no connection. I was talking about .ml, not other instances
The connection is the idea of echo chambers . Just because certain views are not allowed it doesn’t it necessarly an echo chembers. One example is the ukraine sub it will not allow russian propaganda
So you went on a tangent. Fair enough.
But I wasn’t speaking in general, I am aware that curation and moderation are useful things. If you’ll go back, my initial comment led off with a sentence that specified .ml.
They create echo chambers on a regular basis, and do so using methodology that falls under “power trippin”.
But, back to your tangent about general echo chambers. I would partially agree with you. It is necessary to play gatekeeper when you moderate any community. Part of that is minimizing conflict. Since some communities are going to draw extra heat by virtue of being a hot topic, a moderator may have to deploy aggressive filtering, to the point of outright rejection of some types of comments.
That may or may not result in an echo chamber. But it can, and does if the moderator isn’t very judicious in their application of that tool set