This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
All posts should follow this basic structure:
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
YTPB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.
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I made a post about the Europeans who are being deported from Germany for being anti-genocide. https://lemmy.ml/post/28407953
A user repeated the now many times debunked lie that these victims facing deportation were "violent racist rioters". Blatant German propaganda, made up to smear opposition to the genocide in Palestine. Which Germany supplies 30% of the weapons for.
After calling them, and a few other users out for repeating the same lie, the moderators banned me.
100% this and we see this happening all the time!
“I was banned by biased asshole mods!”
Then you look at their comment history and it’s rife with vitriol and antagonism.
I’m in an argument with a few of those trolls in another thread. Is there a social media platform out there that has private modlogs? Because I’d wager that’s where these people are from. They’re not used to having their shit shown.
The post they linked to is deleted, as is everything they ever posted on feddit.org, indicating that their instance ban ("reason: antisemitism") was done with the "remove content" checkbox checked.
I think it's on purpose.
There is a whole art form to creating a consensus view of reality that doesn't exist. One of the most important parts is repetition, from multiple apparently-different sources, with a ton of emotional weight behind it.
One of the constant through-lines from some small selected set of the users here is that lemmy.world, feddit.org, all the "main" instances are full of Zionists who will delete any criticism of Israel (and, also, any criticism of the Democratic Party). It's laughable nonsense, but they say it so loudly and so consistently that it's honestly kind of hard to resist it making it into the consciousness to some extent. I honestly don't know why they do this so consistently. But it's definitely noticeable once you start looking for it.
I had no particular idea whether this particular user was going to overlap with any "to save the world let's not vote for Kamala Harris" posting, just because they were pursuing some nonsense in this particular separate sense. But oh look...
https://ponder.cat/u/[email protected]?page=1&sort=Controversial&view=Overview
Literally the post one tick above this one, is urging people to save Gaza by letting Donald Trump win. Got it. Perfect sense. Wonder why.
And a ten second search through the modlogs will prove this accusation of theirs incorrect. There’s TONS of posts/comments critical of Israel. It’s the ones that violate the rules that are removed.
Maybe this is just more evidence that the majority of lemmy users that are the most vocal on the subject- are immature kids that can’t express themselves without resorting to insults.
And for what it’s worth, I’ve been banned/had comments removed for arguing with a lot of them, so that also disproves their accusations- it then again, most of them pick fights so they can report people anyways….