Comment and thread in question: https://lemmy.world/comment/23138585

Ban from that community, memes@lemmy.ml:

Rule 1 of said community: Be civil and nice.

Rule 1 of said instance: No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.

I was clearly not bigoted in any manner, and I believe more civil than the way I was treated, was it the Code of Conduct? Excerpts:

Please be kind and courteous. There’s no need to be mean or rude.

Respect that people have differences of opinion and that every design or implementation choice carries a trade-off and numerous costs. There is seldom a right answer.

I think I was kind with the people I disagreed with, even if they could not be in return, yet those comments (some including ableist slurs) remain. I think this is enough to demonstrate it is merely a difference in ideology which motivated the ban. Well, bans, because it seems they copied and pasted the same ban in all the communities they have access to:

It’s not a general lemmy.ml ban, just those in particular.

I understand this kind of behavior in safe space communities that don’t want outsiders bellyaching about the pragmatism of electoral politics, but that’s not the case in any of the communities I’ve been banned from, nor is it a part of the instance rules or CoC.

PTB or triggered shitlib? Not an exclusive or, of course.

  • AzuranAurora@piefed.caEnglish
    137·
    28 days ago

    I think this thread is a great example of what not to do in this community. Rather than discuss whether or not the ban was warranted for breaking a listed rule (which in this case was an obvious PTB, they didn’t break any rule and got banned from unrelated communities), half the people here simply devolved into attacking OP for their beliefs and ultimately banning them for defending themselves, even after they apologized and attempted to be civil. That’s not what this place is for, and the mods have said as much before.

        • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          82·
          27 days ago

          The amount of neo-liberals/liberals on Lemmy actually surprises me. Like, most of these communities are apparent in their disdain for them and that’s putting it mildly. I’m personally tired of all the apologia they get from people on here. Less harm is still harm, lesser evil is still evil, less fascist is fascist.

          • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            31·
            27 days ago

            Liberals want this to become Reddit 2, including America apologia, DNC does nothing wrong, and anything vaguely not worshipping white males must be purged.

      • AzuranAurora@piefed.caEnglish
        33·
        27 days ago

        Are you referring to them calling you “honey”? I would think that’s them being a condescending dick, not sexually harassing you. Regardless, I don’t see why they would apologize to you in particular given how hostile and a self-proclaimed “jerk” you were to them.