Lemmy.ml banned me on my Startrek.website account years ago during the height of my posting. Like when I was posting 20 things every hour or two. Why? Posted some Jimmy Neutron meme about Disney having a first gay character and it being the 14th one this month. Title was like "Can always be the first in China at least for a couple minutes" or something along those lines.
From what I heard from some of the people who worked on .ml behind the scenes, they had to reverse the ban because a bunch of people started asking why there was no new content and other people started to realize it was because I had gotten banned.
Have never posted on lemmy.ml since and don't bother to interact with the instance at all. I don't have it blocked because not all users are like the admins but like fuck am I ever adding to that shithole ever again. I thought that was the worst I'd ever deal with from admins... and then I started getting personally harassed by the startrek.website admins across multiple websites and basically forgot about lemmy.ml entirely.
seralth@lemmy.world 7 months ago
zod000@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Not all of us. I just read what it said on the main page “A community of privacy and FOSS enthusiasts, run by Lemmy’s developers” and thought that sounded good. I’m sure a lot of people that were new to lemmy figured the instance run by the devs themselves would be a safe bet. There also wasn’t nearly as much drama around .ml back then, but it honestly hasn’t been enough of an issue to make me create an account on a new instance and switch.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I think it has to do with what they are used to. They never knew the freedom other instances provided.
Also, don’t you have to read like the Communist Manifesto to even join lemmy,ml? Sounds to me only something objectively stupid people would do to join an internet forum.
zod000@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
lol, no of course not, unless that changed later. I would have noped right out.