this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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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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Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
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I believe in free speech too, and I think moderated spaces for discussion help enable it. (Think about this...)
Nobody claimed there was hate in any of messages in that thread; you observing that there wasn't is knocking down a straw man, and using the word censorship here is just hyperbole.
There are however unambiguously factually incorrect assertions in some of the offtopic messages I removed from that thread.
I don't see any misinformation on the deleted messages, if you can see in the ones that I've screenshotted, please tell me which one.
Again, please tell me what is offtopic. Is offtopic asking why FUTO is bad in a post where someone suggested a FUTO keyboard? If so, then a message like this one
should be remove, and so this one:
But the world is not only black and white (every single message MUST have an open source software in it), but its a shades of all colors!
IMHO free ~~speach~~ speech is let people write what they think, moderate misinformation only when there already is no clarification from others so that it's clear to everyone that a message is misinformation.
But Arthur, you're a moderator of your server where you make the rules. I now understand what others were saying about your instance and I'll just leave it. All the best!
Edit: typo
imho "free speach" is a typo, and one often made by people with the funny idea that free speech means any form of content moderation is a violation of their rights 😏
look again; two of the comments in your screenshots (and many more that i deleted) are explicitly claiming that futo makes open source software:
click to expand for screenshots of your screenshots
and, the rest of them are discussing and/or promoting futo, which, again, is a commercial product which many people incorrectly believe to be open source due to its maker's now-recanted false statements to that effect, and therefore offtopic ("spam" would also be a fair label for some of it) in a community about open source.
also, note that i did not even delete 100% of the comments about futo in that thread! i left enough that any good-faith reader should be able to see why further discussion of futo is offtopic there, and, i even linked to this thread you started, to give anyone who wanted to discuss it further a place to do so.
if you still believe that deletion of (most, and not even all in the thread) offtopic/spam comments is a free speech issue... ok, i don't know what else to tell you. all the best to you too.
This says it all! Bye