Lemmy admins: we designed Lemmy to speak truth to power.
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lmao, imagine bothering to ban someone from unrelated communities because you were mad at a comment they made.
In fairness, that comment is one hell of a roast. You either gotta ban them from everything, or reevaluate what you're doing; it just happened that they went with option A in this case.
My bro, these are tankies..
Self reflection is their kryptonite.
“Are we the violent imperialists? No, it’s the maternity hospital that is wrong.”
That children's rec-center was ACTUALLY the center of IDF intelligence, we swear we had to IED all the busses.
Sure but they react to facts, mild criticism, and massive burns all with the same fragility and banning from multiple communities.
Surely it is a mark of the solid correctness of all of their views.
Just like Russia is the world’s most awesome military and economic juggernaut and it’s super not fair for anyone to be allowed to attack inside their borders because that is cheating.
I was banned from a ton of lemmy.ml communities for calling someone a tankie (I think).
A few comminuties are ridiculous, but most are fine.
They probably got banned from the whole instance. I think it shows up as being banned from each community
It's separate. If you just get banned from the instance you can still comment and vote on the instance and other instances can potentially still see it depending on the exact federation graph. But for whatever reason community bans federate differently and participation gets blocked at the home instance. Because of this, .ml runs a special tool to do these "super bans." I have gotten just the instance ban a few times but I think this is my first super ban.
I got banned from /c/privacy some months ago for implying that maybe Russia isn't the most pro-privacy country in the world... Well, that was the reasoning they gave, and they took at as anti-Russian or something. But the real reason is that I roasted them for being way too interested in someone else's business (in this case GrapheneOS main dev) and spreading FUD. They threatened me with a ban, so I responded with an even better thought-out response and challenged them to do it.
The temp ban has passed, so it's possible my posts have been restored (big doubt), but I decided to just bail on pretty much all lemmy.ml communities. It's a massive echo chamber at this point and there's really no value in going there for me anymore. I think I'm subbed to one or two, but that's about it.
BTW, I didn't realize Dessalines was from Haiti. I have no issues with him (I've contributed some patches to Lemmy and interacted with him), but I very much disagree with his politics.
He's not from Haiti. Dessalines was a Haitian revolutionary who killed all the plantation owners on the island (and their families) and then was killed by the slaves he freed because they all ran out of food because nobody would trade with them anymore. I just think it's incredibly cringe that he would appropriate the moniker of an actual freedom fighter who faced an actual struggle, but who was also complete shit being a leader. It kind of sums up the edgy ignorance perfectly.
Wow...
This is not a special tool. As far as I've seen, this is how lemmy 0.19.5 works now.
Oh yeah, I got banned from a dozen communities I’d never even been to