Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian? - eviltoast

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

  • diegeticscream[all]🔻@lemmygrad.ml
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    1 year ago

    Is this post just crying because you got banned? Why not just wait the 13 days to ride it out?

    Lemmy.ml isn’t even your instance, and posting in .world isn’t going to reverse your ban.

    .ML was always explicitly leftist, and run by communists. They’re just nice and try for a reasonably ideologically diverse community.

    You clearly aren’t interested in following their rules (your use of the racist comparison of Xi and Winnie the Pooh breaks their “no bigotry” rule, and you can’t seem to post sourced posts that fit their communities.)

    Why aren’t you interacting on instances you want to be on, and that want the kind of interactions you offer?

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      1 year ago

      I understand it’s offensive, but how is comparing Winnie the Poo to Xi racist?

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        1 year ago

        To be clear, I’m trying to communicate that it’s considered racist/bigoted by Lemmy.ml’s mods, and that’s the reason the user was banned.

        While I see it as bigoted, I understand that it’s commonly used in lemmy.world (where we are) and I’m not going to police it’s use, dunk on the user using it, or report it the way I would in .ML, Lemmygrad, or Hexbear.

        The fediverse is an ideologically shared space, and I’m doing my best to reasonably interact on other instances!

        With those qualifiers, would you still like me to share my reasoning?