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FWIW, the community was worldnews@lemmy.ml.

I assume I was banned because I said I understood Biden opposing surgery on minors, specifically trans surgery. Although I disagreed with it.

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[–] kevindqc@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Afaik lemmy.ml is pretty ban happy. For example, apparently you can't criticize the Chinese government:

https://lemmy.ca/post/591991

I'm not able to access that link. But I saw where criticism of the government was treated as derogatory statements on the people.

[–] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol lemmy.ml is the biggest tankie instance in the fediverse. Really hoping lemmy.world defederates from them soon.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

I hope not. They host a lot of interesting communities, and have a lot of users.

Interesting post from lemm.ee's admin on defederation as a last resort: https://lemm.ee/post/35472386?scrollToComments=true

And I'm saying this as someone who's been trying to get !linux@programming.dev as a viable alternative to the Lemmy.ml community

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Oh. I forgot about them being tankies.

[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lemmy.ml is a tankie community, so this is not that surprising. It's a matter of time before I get banned from there too lol.

[–] decended_being@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen the term tankie thrown around a lot recently. Can you please define it? I'm not quite sure I understand.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Nutshell: auth left.

In practice they'll stan any US adversary. Common themes include uyghur genocide denial, blaming nato for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Soviet atrocity apologia, the works.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

That seems completely reasonable. Move on. Take your respectful conversation where it's appreciated

Interesting. Thank you! I didn't know that you could look that up. I don't think that was an option on the Connect app.

[–] poo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

lemmy.ml is just a ban-happy shitty instance with a ton of weirdos on it.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is worldnews, or lemmy.ml remotely rational?

I guess they don't argue with people directly and the posts don't seem too bad. It's always mixed in with my other posts.

I didn't realize it was that extreme. I mean, my comment was literally just saying that a less progressive policy was still "reasonable" even if I didn't align with it.

I forgot about .ml being the tankies instance too.

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

I’d recommend not participating in communities whose mod policies you disagree with.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You imagine them as rational because they're generally on the same side as you. Now you learn that it's actually a trigger happy echo chamber that only cares to achieve it's goals.

I guess so. I don't mind like-minded spaces. But leaving no room for discussion just seems pointless.

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah it's a shit show that place, I've had comments removed too. I just left and blocked it from my feed. That's honestly your best option. Don't give it a, second thought.

Thanks. I guess I'll have to start using my Beehaw account some more for some of my news.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next step would be to proceed blocking every .ml community and joining the equivalent ones on other instances.

I'm going through and unsubscribing now from the few I was subbed to. One had a better community elsewhere since the last the last time I checked.

The only one I'm missing a replacement for is findacommunity, which I asked for on the community.

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah, this is the reason I don't write many comments on Lemmy. you first write a comment, and then find out that you have already been banned for the previous one.

[–] Blaze@reddthat.com 3 points 1 year ago

That's usually not the case on other communities