Asklemmy

What is the point of these forums if you’re banned for using it?

Because it's made for the people who don't get banned.

If you get banned, it's usually a pretty big hint that this community isn't for you, and to evade is only wasting your own time in the end.

There are admins with clear political bias and they are using their powers to suppress opinions they don’t like.

lemmy.ml openly, explicitly has a political bias. This isn't a free-speech extremist place, and people here enjoy that fact. We don't want to see the same tired derails every day, we would go somewhere else for that.

21 days for "constant bickering" is a bit vague (and something a large number of us are guilty of)

More interesting than that though is your instance mandacaru.caatinga.digital which I have never seen before, and the sudden appearance of right-wing trolls from that same instance. If we look at the timing...@Nemo accout 2 hrs old currently (same time @Julianus account was banned) and troll accounts x7 created since then too.

Maybe the banning served it's purpose perfectly?

which community and which instance are you talking about? lemmy.ml has a very clear left-leaning bias that they like to enforce pretty often with instance and user bans, but not post bans as far as i'm aware, so avoid them as your home instance. i see you're on a different instance already, though, so you should specify what you're talking about.

i guess the fact that you have to specify illustrates the beauty of federation!

On Lemmy.ml specifically, even though it is stated as a general leftist instance (so yes, we do have a political bias), we have generally tolerated most political views with the major exception of the far right.

If you look closer into it, at the histories of those banned for example, bans given in that people think is because of their political views, you'll find it's most often their behaviour: repeatedly debating in bad faith, and more importantly, harassing, or using attacks or insults against other users, which is covered under rules 1 and 2. Usually it takes multiple offences for a ban, unless the first offense was particularly egregious.

When banning someone other than an obvious troll or spammer from the start, we generally don't remove their post history specifically so it can be referenced later. So I encourage you to have a look.

The admins are allowed to moderate however they like with the rules they see appropriate. If you disagree with their decisions, you shouldn't expect to be welcomed on lemmy.ml and should instead look for another lemmy instance that better aligns with your ideas.

I have to say "bickering" is a dubious reason for a ban when there are people in here that respond to anything against their views with heavy sardonicism, degrading the quality of conversation immediately. Yet nothing is done to it.

What makes you think that using Lemmy is only about unconditional free speech? That is a weird assumption to make.

If you want frozen peaches, go to reddit, they have glowie admins, glowies like having lotsa bootlickers.