this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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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.


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Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It's not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don't want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that's not the case in any of the communities I've been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

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[–] mlg@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago
[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (4 children)

@calmblue75@lemmy.ml explained why your comments were being perceived as problematic but you didn’t didn’t read the room. You might actually be in agreement with the community, but your choice of words reads as “a little genocide is acceptable.”

All genocide is unacceptable. All mass murder is unacceptable. Putting the unacceptable onto a scale of better or worse is a liberal propaganda tactic that doesn’t fly in leftist spaces. Your mistake was conflating the concept of “voting to minimize harm in a captured system” with “my genocide is more ethical than their genocide,” which is a fallacy. No genocides are ethical.

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[–] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 4 days ago

Guy came here to complain about how he was banned for electoralist garbage and he ended up getting banned for electoralist apologia. YDM troll.

[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 days ago
[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

After seeing your reactions to mild criticism to millionaires who don't care about you, you deserve more. Fuck off you diet fascist.

Edit: VGA, if you're going to downvote everyone here, you could explain why you think people are wrong.

[–] homes@piefed.world 33 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (12 children)

lemmy.ml is an instance well-known for being, shall we say… unreasonable when it comes to politics.

The admins and a large portion of the user base are tankies— people who claim to be extreme leftists/communists but really worship the likes of Stalin, Xi and the oppressive authoritarian government of regimes, such as the Soviet Union, China, and North Korea. They are very much intolerant any criticism whatsoever or anyone else’s political views. Unfortunately, the administrators of that instance are also the main developers for Lemmy itself.

This is why ~~the code has been forked to another platform~~ alternatives to lemmy have been developed, such as PieFed, which is federated and interoperates with Lemmy, and is not dependent on the crazy ass developers. It also has better mod and admin features. but even if you don’t wanna switch to PieFed, you can at least avoid communities on Lemmy.ml. I have the whole instance blocked.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 26 points 5 days ago (40 children)

piefed is not a fork, it's a completely different codebase. with plenty of its own problems.

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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (22 children)

I 100% get that we elect our opposition not our leaders. and in the US we are only given "lesser evil", and not voting isn't helping. OP was basically bootlicking dems and being ok with their atrocities.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 5 days ago

Here's your medal for being banned from .ml:

You can get it in 2 and 5 too, they tend to stack up.

[–] commiunism@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

OP got banned from this community for "Bad jacketing and electoralism", and while I aint reading 125 comments to see bad jacketing, including electorialism as a ban reason is wild af.

Regardless if PTB or YDI, I think grass touching might be in order for multiple parties here for taking online politics LARP too seriously. It's a beautiful spring weather, perfect for a walk.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 17 points 5 days ago (32 children)

they were calling people who they think didn't vote nazis. seems like a pretty good reason to ban someone. they were also banned from AN because they wouldn't stop calling me honey.

all in all, a rather unpleasant liberal, who was given the chance to find posting opportunities elsewhere.

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

they were also banned from AN because they wouldn’t stop calling me honey.

Ugh. I hate it when shitlibs add an inappropriate pet name to the end of their condescending apologia for genocide.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago

they wouldn't stop calling me honey

Gross

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 5 days ago (10 children)

Its absolutely hilarious that there are two types of people in this thread, people who read your comments and people who see ml so assume it must be a PTB. How about you make it easier for everyone and post those offending comments?

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