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