News just came out that Nicholas Hoult is joining the season 2 Harry Potter cast.
I like him and a lot of things he’s been in and didn’t see it anywhere on Lemmy yet, so I posted it to lemmy.world’s News community.
Post was a link to the article that first broke the news, used it’s title as my post title, followed all instance and community rules.
Post was removed as “not news” and I was temp banned for “multiple rule violations.” Of course the mod can’t list what rules those would be, because it didn’t violate any of them. If the News community only allows posts on certain news topics then it should specify those in it’s rules.
This is actually worse than Reddit. At least Reddit has so many users that when mods keep doing things like this it creates enough drama that they stop or end up replaced. Lemmy mods seem to remove anything they personally don’t like and ban anyone who questions them.
About 2/3 of my comment history is bad jokes, and I have a dark sense of humor. Some people aren’t fond it. I try not to be a jackass to anyone, but getting jumped on for something people were very aware was a bad joke is frustrating.
People love to think of themselves as accepting and welcoming and caring, good people who treat people they’re just meeting right… as long as those newcomers think and respond in the approved manner. A lot of people deal with trauma by developing a dark sense of humor. Even knowing someone is joking and having no idea the things that person has been through in life that might be behind them needing to joke about that topic, so many here jump to instant judgement and treating that person like shit.
It’s about as far from welcoming, accepting, or even simply treating another human beings like a human being and not like some subhuman monster they feel justified in hating and shitting because it dared make a joke they weren’t fond of.
Ehhh jokes have limits and you should know your audience.
But I’m still here defending you on the topic of this post. The culture here takes a little time to get used to - it’s different than Reddit and the like even though it seems similar on its face.
Give respect and, generally, you’ll receive respect.