Got banned from ml and made a meme about it. Thought you guys might appreciate.
Since I was curious I checked the actual amount of upvotes and downvotes of my post on mbin. It got 56 upvotes and 66 downvotes according to them since I was curious. Seems I hurt their little ego when I mentioned blocking their instance.
"They instance wide banned me for saying a federal democratic republic is, by definition, a form of democracy. I'm not surprised by that, MLs gonna ML, but I am kind of annoyed it wasn't for me calling Stalin a red fascist who killed the Revolution."
I haven't used lemmy up until this point. They pose as a general purpose instance and are the 2nd largest lemmy instance at that. I knew the lemmy devs had their preferences but I didn't know they would let it effect their moderating so strongly.
Yeah they could definitely be a bit more upfront about it. Pity the poor "libertarians" who wander in from time to time thinking FOSS=free speech absolutism
They need to pick whether or not they're "an ML instance." Clearly being one while going "nuh uh we're just general" is partially to blame for this "confusion." (Of course I know they do it on purpose to fuel their victim complex and attempt to normalize their propaganda and extremist positions rather than relegate them to their own purpose built communities.)