A safe space to report and discuss the daily abuses of power that occur on the Lemmy.
For the record I was posting in support of inclusive language, but pointing out that context and convention matter.
They seem to have even scrubbed my comment from their instance, lol.
Blahaj mods (especially the one modding ghazi, transgender and 196) are the worst kind of mods. They promote blatant misinformation, remove posts calling said misinformation out, and they ban people and label them transphobes despite there being no transphobic words or implications whatsoever in your comments.
Just block the entire instance and move on. There are better instances that better represent the lgbt community.
Source: my ban message is the same as yours, and I have never said or implied anything remotely transphobic.
What I hate about blocking instances is that I no longer seem to get inbox notifications when a member of the instance comments on something in response to me, outside of that instance.
Like, my beef isn't with blahaj users, and I don't want to unintentionally ignore them because their admin/s are nutballs.
Unless it’s hexbear in which case the users are also nuts
Imagine going out of your way to mod based on shit posted else where.
I have been saying this... We have too much modding for no fucking reason.
We literally got 50k AMU, and half the modding is based on vibes, I don't like the tone or content of the comments
As if there is not enough real modding to go around lol
The mod to user ratio in some of the communities is way out of whack. Just start with one mod who does nothing except manage spam and actual harmful content posted explicitly to be harmful. If the community ever grows so much that more mods are required, add only as needed and not more. And do the absolute minimum to make the community a good place to be, so it has a chance to grow and flourish.
What I'm saying is mod in moderation.
From the Book of the Dude, the holy book of the Dudeism religion:
Incidentally, the term “dude” is commonly agreed to refer to all genders. Most linguists contend that the diminutive “dudette” is not in keeping with the parlance of our times.
Wouldn't be a leftist platform if they didn't spend the majority of their time and effort self policing based on their purity tests instead of doing something actually productive
The People's Front of Judea vs the Judean People's Front!
Dude is gender neutral
Not to everyone, and that's cool, until someone tells you not to call them dude anymore. Then your an asshole if you try to argue the gender neutrality of the term dude. Such as telling someone to get over it.
Wow. That is about the tamest comment that’s ever gotten someone banned.
I'm just glad I'm not the only one who views dude as androgynous.
I thought I was one of the few.
I was once told my choice of defaulting to referring to people as they/them is offensive to nonbinary people. I don't necessarily know your pronouns at that particular instance of time when speaking, and being offensive is not my intention, but it seems to happen anyway.
Which is why I call they/them the equal oppurtunity offender. It doesn't discriminate in its neutralness.
Wait until they hear what non-binary sounds like in Spanish, a language that genders every noun as either male or female.
At least from one Non Binary, I default they/them and have no idea why I personally would find it offensive.
They could not in fact get over it, dude.
They must feel very strongly about the word dude. I'm in your camp on it. It's an exclamation, nothing more 🤷
The key is that you said "but..." which in some communities fails the test of absolute 100% agreement and makes you The Enemy. I had a very similar experience there, in my case it was saying someone who is "uncomfortable" with gender issues might not actually "hate" anybody, they could just be having trouble overcoming how they were raised. But in the end it's like if a TV channel stops but you get thousands of other channels, so oh well .
Consider the source of the action(a person pursuing a position of authority on a relatively miniscule network) and keep on keeping on. Decades of forums moderated by basement dwellers with a Napoleon complex have made it hard for me to take things like this seriously.
Wow, somebody that day was salty, and pretty much just looking for a comment to get mad about.
There's another FOSS project idea: a bot that detects Lemmy bans and sends you a notification about it.
I don't think there is anything like a shadow ban on Lemmy?
It seems to be an unintentional side effect, that ends up being similar to a shadow ban.
What I mean to say is that I can still make comments on blahaj posts, but they will never show up to users of their instance. So, to me, it seems like everything is okay, when in reality, I've probably been commenting into the ether for 10 mo.
Example:
Blahaj is essentially the padded room of Lemmy. The users there never ever ever want to see a difference in opinion, a naughty word, or a thought provoking comment. They want to be victims and talk about cute stuff. Completely within their rights to make their instance the most cringe thing on the Internet and yet another example of leftists fighting other leftists and pointing fingers at one another over minor issues while conservatives actually are exterminating minorities at record pace and creating laws and regulations to destroy lives. It might be funny if it wasn't so sad.
I have also been banned from specifically 196 for a comment on a completely different instance. Reason: Transphobe. Because I was asking questions.
And it's kind of annoying that when I scroll through the feed, upvote a post and get an error. Oh it's a blahaj post... Sometimes I realize after I've finished writing a comment and can't send it.
Lmao they banned me for saying we shouldn't let trump get elected, the blahaj mods are awful
Where would I see if I've been banned somewhere? I usually browse /all so I'm sure I've commented and voted most everywhere.
I got banned from lemmy.world/c/linuxsucks, which is one person's mental illness, so who cares? Doesn't stop me from calling them an idiot when they show up elsewhere.
I was banned from a community called, "Pleasant Politics," that I had never heard of or interacted with, but honestly, as a preemptive move, fair enough.
Oh that place is an interesting idea but poor execution.
Last I knew they would ban you if you got banned from any of the news comms or had too many controversial comments. Which just boiled down to downvotes
I remember the creator of the bot that does the bans insisted until he was blue in the fact that it doesn't ban based on downvotes while spewing a lot f technobabble that ultimately ammounted to banning for downvotes. So yeah, he's trying to bring back one of the worse features of Reddit, that being an ass kissing requirement, that's what karma requirements are, they are an ass kissing requirement, because the way you get karma points is by kissing ass, the way you lose them is by sharing new or different ideas. See the issue with them? The system punishes people for having ideas that other people don't like, not that are wrong or evil, but that other people simply don't like. That's not even mentioning people who cheat the system by doing vote manipulation to their own comments or to other comments.
