Greentext

I looked up your comment in the modlog just to see; if it's the one I see, you got banned from lemmy.ml which is a little different. They make no pretense of fairness.

That said, based on the comment that's fuckin ridiculous. I don't agree with you, but I can't understand the point of a communication network where as soon as someone busts out an opinion the operators don't like, they remove them from the community. It's like lighting a big red beacon "MY OPINIONS CANNOT TOLERATE AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE PEOPLE ARE ALLOWED TO DISAGREE." It's one thing if you're insulting some person in the channel or something, but it was clearly just your geopolitical opinion.

Then again, it is lemmy.ml; it's run by people who idolize leaders who imprison or torture people who try to disagree, so count yourself lucky that they're not in charge of anything beyond their little server I guess. I tried to debate with the tankies when I first showed up here and at this point my approach is just to unsubscribe and move on.

Edit: Just because I reread this and I'm still irritated at it somehow. My breaking point with lemmy.ml was when I was arguing with some people, and someone else showed up in the thread and I was talking with him, and the people I was arguing with were using the new guy's opinions as some kind of "gotcha" against me. Like, this guy believes this, and you're supporting him, so clearly you're on his side (I wasn't), and you agree with him (I definitely didn't), and we can hold you responsible for anything he says because you're not attacking him.

Like, they could not process the idea that I might be talking to someone who had a different opinion than me, and it could be okay. They thought if he said flip, and I thought it was flop, I had to instantly start screaming at him about how flop was the way, and everything else had to stop, and if i didn't do that I wasn't a good flop-supporter. And so they seemed like they legitimately thought that if I wasn't doing that it meant I secretly supported flip, because that was what they would do, is just scream (figuratively speaking) at anyone who didn't agree with them completely on everything they considered important, until they "won" (i.e. the person gave up and left).

I realized there was nothing for me there, and unsubscribed from anything world-event-related on lemmy.ml immediately, and so far it's proven to be a good decision.