ginerel@kbin.social 10 months ago
lemmy.ml
first time [...] a mod didn't like the viewpoint expressed.
Haha, wow, first time?
Welcome to this place. Lemmy.ml is notorious for being run by the actual tankies that created this project. See what they support, what they don't, and have an opposite opinion on that. You will get the boys telling you how it acchually it is not and call you a glowie CIA agent or whatnot for not siding with them. The Reddit migration probably made them more accepting of opposite opinions, but probably because things have calmed down more a bit lately, they started aggressively moderating stances like yours and probably anti-Kremlin takes as well (seriously, before that, if you were against the Russian invasion in Ukraine or against China's politics you would have been accused of being racist towards them - but hey, you can say whatever you want against the USA, or The West, you can't be racist against these, can you?).
Anyway, here's a longer take by FediTips that explains the issues with Lemmy:
https://mstdn.social/@feditips/106835057054633379
mo_ztt@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah. The weird thing is, I actually deliberately went to one of those instances (I genuinely can’t remember if it was lemmy.ml or lemmygrad) when I first joined and had some arguments with them. Back in those days they not once removed any of my comments. They yelled at me and downvoted me and of course I think their opinions are dead wrong, but I was actually a little impressed with how they let me say my anti-genocide things. I actually learned a bunch of stuff by arguing with them; among other things I got exposed to John Mearsheimer who I think is pretty sharp.
That was why it was a little shocking when this comment got removed. It wasn’t, like, friendly and happy, but I didn’t think there was much in it to disagree with. Maybe one word.
For what it’s worth I’m planning to do my own instance using kbin, so I can have my own little walled fortress and interact with the people on Mastodon also, and also no one can ban me even if the whole rest of Lemmy goes crazy. YOU CAN’T STOP ME