I got banned from a (presumably) rational community. Just curious if anyone has had experience with this and what next steps are. - eviltoast

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.

    • Omega@lemmy.worldOP
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      5 months ago

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

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    4 months ago

    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.

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

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        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.

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      5 months ago

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

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      4 months ago

      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.

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      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.

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    5 months ago

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

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    5 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

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

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    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.

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      4 months ago

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

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

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      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.

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    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.