I was going to comment on a post today, and found out I’d been banned from mop@quokk.au. Apparently it happened awhile ago.
Not much of a reason, no real evidence given. The mod didn’t include a screenshot, link, or even quoted text, so I’m not sure which specific interaction led to this. Basically this is just thought policing. Hilarious considering that the community claims to be:
free of the “ML” influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.
Also, even if the accusation is true it doesn’t break any community rules:
There is only one mod of mop@quokk.au, so this isn’t just a vague/general example. @lumpenproletariat@quokk.au is a PTB.
I remember commenting quite a bit on that community, though mostly because it consistently posted coal that didn’t make sense but had lots of upvotes regardless. The main mod then proceeded to look for any excuse to ban me off the platform and essentially admitted that they’re building an echo chamber and don’t like any dissenting voices even when it’s coming from the rare anti-liberal position they allegedly agree with.
You’ve probably been done a favor with this tbh, stay away and let kids have their fun
PTB. Fake anarchist communities are the worst. They claim they want freedom and to have no rules but they rule with an iron fist.
Your post history and moderation history speak for itself. YDM.
More vague generalized implications, still lacking anything specific. You might as well just say overtly that you support abuses of power.
Oh, Fantastical Fungus hates mod abuse. So much so that they ban people from comms they’ve never participated in.
Agreed, she’s such a cunt. I wish I knew why so many people including admins agree with her. Lemmy is really going down the shitter!
please do the world a favor and take yourself out of it.
I ain’t killing myself asshole!
I’m lost. Why does everyone hate this person?
A reasonable question that is unlikely to receive a reasonable answer.
considering I’ve consistently seen shit takes from you whenever you open your mouth, I’m going to say you deserved it.
Yeah, this isn’t PTB, this is moderation working as intended.
It is PTB, banning people who haven’t interacted with communities is not okay and won’t ever be okay!
What was the comment you wanted to publish?
I can intersect it for you, if think it’s relevant agitprop.I appreciate the offer, but I’m not really interested in attempting to dodge a ban for the sake of a comment on a meme post. It was just the catalyst for this.
You wouldn’t be dodging a ban since I’d be commenting on your behalf. Unless you think the ban is deserved?
Unless you think the ban is deserved?
I think the ban is the ban, and that my conduct is and will continue to be more mature than these PTBs.
Then I’ll maturely assume the comment wasn’t agitprop and carry on.
YDI
For what reason, exactly?
An accusation was made in the ban, but nothing was provided to substantiate it. What you seem to be saying is that the accusation itself is enough to justify the ban, which is akin to a witch hunt, where the accused is presumed to be guilty and is then punished for having been accused, with no evidence given and no recourse.
I was not given the basic courtesy of a warning, or even a message from the moderator, and a 73-year ban is effectively permanent, which is extreme when no actual rules were broken. Basically, I was banned for thought crime, because the mod didn’t like what I said. The judgment was carried out summarily and with no consideration. This is kangeroo court nonsense.
The last time I experienced similar behavior was on lemmygrad.ml.
you consistently post shitlib takes, and you are aggressively anti-anarchist. if you really want me to post proof, I can do that. your posting history is public, after all.
That’s not a reason to ban people without ever having posted! What people post outside your modded communities is not your business!
probably based on off community comments, because mods unfortunately look at those.
Looking at the history it seems @Deceptichum@quokk.au banned them for their comments in this thread, not even one of their many shitty comments already on their profile before but their comments in that thread.
Removed by mod
Yikes. So what you’re saying is that a difference in political opinion is justification for retaliatory action. That is fantastically authoritarian.
What exactly was “shitty” about any of those comments?
Why do you have a problem with anarchists banning you from anarchist communities exactly? Do you think you should be able to say what you like wherever you go? Quokk.au isn’t a freeze peach instance. They have no obligation to let you visit and shit on the floor.
Why do you have a problem with anarchists banning you from anarchist communities exactly? Do you think you should be able to say what you like wherever you go?
I think that I haven’t broken any rules, and that I’ve essentially been judged under some secret law, and the punitive measure was delivered effectively in secret with no communication or recourse, which is the kind of behavior one expects from fascists and authoritarians.
Basically I think I’m the victim of abject hypocrites. People who claim to be ideologically against abuses of authority obviously approve of such abuses when aligned with their personal politics.
It’s very telling to me that so many people here are functionally behaving as if the mod were right because they’re the mod, which is to say “might makes right”.
Quokk.au isn’t a freeze peach instance. They have no obligation to let you visit and shit on the floor.
I think that if you’re going to build an echo chamber, you should have explicit rules identifying it as such, to the effect of “Only approved ideologies are allowed to be expressed here, and all others are forbidden.” That way you at least have to consciously process that you are building an echo chamber, and you put up a warning sign so that reasonable, cooperative and tolerant people will know to stay away.
Basically I think I’m the victim of abject hypocrites.
no you’re not. one of the most important foundations of anarchism is the concept of freedom of association. we have decided we no longer wish to associate with you. your own personal freedoms have not been affected by this decision.
Then even more PTB.
Fine example of Lemmy turning into federated silos and echo chambers just like their ancestors sailed from on Reddit.
What we need is a platform without moderation. No bans no artificial control if you don’t like stuff block it from your feed.
In a vacuum, an idealistic world in which everyone is acting in good faith, this seems like a good idea.
In practice, any unmoderated internet space that allows arbitrary user content quickly becomes overrun with adbots, to the point that the platform is unusable for everyone else. Leaving it up to the individual to block them just becomes an exponentially growing game of whac-a-mole.
Allow people to create lists then just like adblock. It still needs to be up to people if they want to or don’t want to see people, spam or not!
You would spend all of your time just blocking bots. Even if you personally would not be turned away by that, most people would, so the platform would be effectively empty.
