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Uhh this sounds sus af.
What topics are you wanting to cover?
This is from the subreddit mods’ rules. I don’t see it necessarily implying OP to be in the wrong or in the right. It really just implies those damn corporate admins are at fault. OP could just want a platform which doesn’t censor a discussion on subject matter alone.
That matches my experience with reddit admin. One of my subs had to implement exactly the same rule.
When I first became active on reddit, I admired how few sitewide rules they had and how much free speech they allowed.
Now they ban debate about one of the most contentious and multifaceted societal issues of the present. What are online discussion forums there for if not to openly and civilly exchange ideas about issues like this?
Part of the problem is that discussion of this issue in particular was very often not civil and created a hostile environment for users.
Probably true. https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/ was written before most people cared much about this but certainly applies very strongly to it. I am fortunately not directly affected by it either way (I am neither trans nor a woman nor have any desire to pretend to be trans in order to get access to women's spaces) so it doesn't get my emotions up much to read any side's arguments; I can see why that may be different for others.
That's very important context for this question
Are you familiar with the subreddit /r/changemyview ? I don't have a topic to discuss right now. But I am against the reddit admins banning a certain topic from being discussed because it's controversial.
I haven’t really used reddit since joining Lemmy over 2 years ago now, but yes I’m familiar enough with the sub and its concept.
Is it because it’s controversial, or because nobody operates in good faith and uses it to attack trans people?
Because I’m so tired of JAQ offs.
Lemmy admins/mods are even more heavy handed than Reddit ones from what I’ve seen in the mod logs - especially around transgender topics. There is seemingly no discussion allowed, only echo chamber agreement.
Like if you said that you agreed with the UK Supreme Courts ruling on biological sex and sex based spaces, you’d probably be banned for being “transphobic” on many communities and instances here.
Some of Lemmy appears to be Reddit admin/mods but dialled up even further to the authoritarian side, which I didn’t think was possible haha
Bingo!
We have no ambition of being more lenient than Reddit, it's just less centralized. If people want to be bigots they can find themselves an instance and a community for that, and other people can choose not to be exposed to their bullshit. That's the whole point.
Also, the UKSC judgment is a pseudo-scientific piece of junk. Agreeing with it is a big-ass red flag.
Well yeah; that is a transphobic ruling.
I've personally never been banned on reddit, but been banned 2 or 3 times on Lemmy for being too argumentative.
Sometimes, even if I generally agree with someone, I have the strong urge to argue because I don't think their arguments are good. But some people see that as being against them or even trolling. And communities here seem more sensitive to it.