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.
Some acronyms you might see.
Relevant comms
The Mod of progressive Politics (TokenBoomer@lemmy.world) removes any opinion they don't like and bans any users that hold these "descenting" opinions. I was banned for pointing out that a
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Cool. More I was an asshole in a community and got banned post
You have direct attacks on users based on their instance in your screenshots, fam.
I mean, I say the same things, I just don't cry when the obvious .ml alt bans me for it.
It's a common trend among these communities.
Just call whoever you disagree with a troll, then you don't have to argue and mods can censor them.
I know that guy. He's a fucking troll. I don't know how he got to be the mod of that community. Seriously.
That's moderators. You think that Lemmy is more "cozy" because local moderators are better than Reddit's ones? No, local moderators are just fewer and lazier. But when they work on the message, they are indistinguishable from any other mods.
Agreed.
Lemmy has the potential to have less mod abuse, but we need communities that don't engage in it.
Right now most mods will abuse power whenever it's convenient or preferable to them.
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Mod powers on social media will always be subject to abuse. The majority of people who start a community do so with the sole intention of being in control of it. Especially so when it's a duplicate community of another, larger/older one.
And a decentralized platform like Lemmy just adds one more layer of easily taken power in the form of an instance admin. Anyone can spin up an instance if they were dedicated enough, and have much more control than a simple mod.
It's super unlikely that there will ever be a totally fair and balanced platform, completely free of biased moderation. At best, you can choose to use sites and communities where your biases at least align.
I don't really understand the outrage to be honest.
If you spin up an instance and put in the work it is the right of the admin to do whatever they want with it. They can ban you if they don't like your username or whatever it is, and it's fair game.
I think it is pretty entitled to use the stuff of someone and still have demands.
If you don't like how the ship is directed you can always change ship and sail the same ocean.
Admins are responsible for the mods. They are just an extant of the admins and should act in their spirit. If they don't act in that way they should get the boot.
I mean isn't that one of the points to have different places from which to access the same content? Having different cultures and values?
So yeah, I agree with you. This will always happen and , in my opinion, people should stop being so surprised by it and start building their own spaces instead of demanding that existing places change.
If you don’t like how the ship is directed you can always change ship and sail the same ocean.
Great analogy for the fediverse! People used to give me grief for being on more than one instance, but I had to jump around a bit before I found the places and m@tes that fit my ideals.
You just say that because you are anti fish.
What’s even a local mod? Reddit has no mods of their own in general and they outsource „admin” work to some call center in India where reports are actioned upon a roll of dice.
Just instance-block .world, as the reddit refugees end up there, the least worst will naturally filter out to other smaller instances in a helpful Darwinian selection process
Lemmy is drawn almost entirely from Reddit refugees. The occasional mastodon user wandering in with @s at everything doesn't change that.
Right, and my ideal situation is that all the low-quality ones stay on .world and the rest filter out to join us on smaller instances.