For more context: I already had the communism and lefty communites blocked. I’d consider myself middle-left of the political spectrum but personally don’t believe in some grand revolution saving us all. Most left communities on here seem to far out there for my personal taste at least. My comment is deleted but if you wanna see the post here’s the link.
I wish you’d differentiate between instance and community. I didn’t just get banned from that specific community but from the whole instance permanently without explanation. I mean I guess I don’t mind that much in retrospect but it did mildly annoy me since I like commenting and lemmy doesn’t have that much content to begin with compared to the likes of reddit.
lol. You were blocked because they didn’t like your comment was getting upvotes? Idk, buddy. Good riddance, I’d say. I understand about the lack of content, though.
That applies to instances, too - they should be also free to curate their own vibes, including saying “you are not welcome here”. Nobody here is entitled to the usage of an instance.
The problem with lemmy .ml is on another level: transparency. Instead of actually telling users what they want/don’t want in their instance, like Hexbear for example correctly does, they keep pushing and pulling rule #1 (no bigotry - the reason why you were banned BTW) and rule #2 (be respectful) to justify every single action. It’s effectively lying to the users.
I agree with you and think if an instance communicates clearly what they are and what they want then I have no problem.
BTW how do you no the reason why I’m supposedly banned when I don’t even know that.
Modlog.
It’s weird to think about it. It’s a great transparency tool, and yet made by the same group that struggles to handle users in a transparent way.