I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

  • Pratai
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    1 year ago

    Looks that way, and who cares?

      • Pratai
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        1 year ago

        Then do it from a different instance? Who cares what they do on one specific instance? Fuck them and all, but it’s their instance. Complaining about it flies in the face of what lemmy is entirely about.

        Or do I not understand the entire point of lemmy?

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          Totally transferring to another instance and losing your post history is kind of a shitty solution when they could just not have authoritarian moderators instead. They’re also Lemmy’s developers.

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            You can always observe and research the instance you’re about to create an account on to protect yourself from unpleasant surprises.

            This is not a new development for lemmy.ml.

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              I joined back in June and lemmy.ml was absolutely doing all of this shit back then. Anything even mildly critical of China was banned for “orientalism.” They’ve never been shy about the fact that their instance is run by tankies.

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            Totally transferring to another instance and losing your post history is kind of a shitty solution

            You don’t have to do that, though. You can just post on a different instance from your normal account.

            Somebody correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t believe instance admins can remove your content that’s posted to another instance.

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                I fail to see the problem after I explained that you’re free to post elsewhere. I too have a sign-in with them. But because of their dumb shit- I left and don’t post from there anymore.

                That’s how lemmy works. That’s the entire point of it.

                • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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                  You’re free to abandon your account and they’re free to not hire authoritarian moderators. Why should it be on you and not them?

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                    1 year ago

                    ROFL! So… to summarize, you think the moderators who put their own time, effort, and money into running an instance….

                    … are entirely beheld to a random tool that doesn’t like how things are run?

                    It’s not on them because they own the instance. If you don’t like it, fuck all the way off elsewhere. It’s what I did. Because I get how it works.

        • Spzi@lemm.ee
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          who cares?

          Those of us who want to freely discuss geopolitics without fear of getting banned care.

          Then do it from a different instance?

          To move to another instance you have to be aware of the issue. To be aware of the issue you have to care about it.

          it’s their instance. Complaining about it flies in the face of what lemmy is entirely about.

          Or do I not understand the entire point of lemmy?

          Maybe just one half. True, one half is that every instance can do what it wants.

          The other half is, that users can do what they want. In order to be able to do what they want, they need information about instances.

          People speaking up about what many people would consider frown-worthy instance behaviour is an important part of that process.

          We are free to warn each other.

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        There are multiple world politics communities and multiple other news/politics communities that also discuss world politics. One community going ban happy is irrelevant.