My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a “tankie” instance, but it was nothing specific.
After I moved to .zip, I came across [email protected], which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.
Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.
Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.
The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.
There’s a reason most instances are de-fed from them. Play with fire and get burned I don’t know what you expected. This post makes you seem either oblivious or knowing but still complaining.
It’s not the only gaming community I’m subscribed to. It didn’t stand out as being particularly problematic. If you look at its front page today, it’s all about games and you won’t be able to say it’s done from a politicized perspective that would invite comments to the effect of “Russia good”, let alone that Holodomor is a Nazi construct. Personally, I’m very open-minded and I try not to judge a book by its cover. In the thread, someone dismissed a source just because of their vibes rather than its content. I wouldn’t do that.
They said Holodomor genocide is a nazi construct, in the thread itself they believe Holodomor is a result of government inefficiency and a natural disaster
Hmm, to them, it’s like saying the American dustbowl was a genocide
That’s actually a great analogy.
It’s not just the cover, and now you know that. In fact, it’s the cover that misled you.