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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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Banned from .world comm shortly after banning .world mod (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by Diva@lemmy.ml to c/yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I don't expect this to play particularly well here, and maybe I'm just being conspiratorial, but here goes:

I banned jordanlund@lemmy.world from !transgender@lemmy.blahajzone earlier today- he literally posted a matt walsh youtube link and was being otherwise transphobic in a space where that gets you banned. (link)

one of jordanlunds removed comments w/ matt walsh video:

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the reason I put down was 'trolling about neopronouns' I stand by that, it was violating instance rules and was unacceptable behavior from a moderator of another instance.

Shortly after that I got banned from news@lemmy.world for 'trolling'. To be clear, jordanlund does not moderate news@lemmy.world, but the timing struck me as an odd coincidence.

The .world thread in question (link)

I was expressing my actual opinion/position on this, if anything the post I was replying to should be considered a rule 1 violation implying leftists are russian/under russian sway:

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The removed comments that I was banned (permanent) for were just me being earnest about my position, which you're welcome to disagree with.

I don't view protecting my rights as something worth sacrificing other people for, even if they're on the other side of the planet. You can be mad at me or hate me for that, but I'm not trolling.

People replying felt it was reasonable to call me an idiot for example, yet another example of selective moderation. on .world.

I don't have any conclusive proof that my banning Jordanlund and then getting banned are related other than the suspicious timing, I welcome clarification.

Anyway in the interest of neutrality and transparency I submit both my ban and jordanlunds for review.

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[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 23 points 1 week ago

If we're assuming it was a retaliation ban- The powers that be at lemmy.world would be wise to nip this type of thing in the bud now and replace those actively working to deceive and lash out at others from their team.

Eventually people will stop giving the owners/admins the benefit of the doubt when controversial things like this happen. What happens then? The time/money/resources are being thrown away to enable a few people's egos and eventually the users will tire of it and abandon ship. It seems like we're drawing closer to that every day.

One way or another the true colors will always come out. Interesting times ahead.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

World is an absolute cancer on Lemmy, its filled with ShitLibs who hold on to their Reddit mentality. If Blahaj defederated from world absolutely nothing of value would be lost.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You shouldn’t judge an entire group of people, by the tag on their names.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No, you should judge them based on their political opinions and lack of empathy. And as it just so happens, .world is full of shitlibs.

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[–] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Honestly .world seems to be turning into the same shit that reddit was except even more hypocritical cause they “arent reddit” is there a tool I can use to migrate my account?

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[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah jordanlund do be doing that.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago

Banning people because they just tell exactly what is happening 🤦🏻

Go live in trumps ass, lol

This jordanlund seems to be the rare kind of human I hate… (I generally love other people🤭)

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 14 points 1 week ago

Jordanlund is petty lil bitch so this checks out purely from trust me bro angle << debunked

But at the same time, if y'all are banning each other, y'all kinda deserve each other.

Matt walsh is feces tho, no doubt.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 13 points 1 week ago

PTB. Throwing a fit because you pointed out their blatant transphobia

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For anyone wanting help finding the original entry in the modlog - bc it is currently not in either lemmy.ml or lemmy.world - here it is in lemmy.blahaj.zone. I haven't delved into the rest but wanted to say damn it's annoying when moderation activities don't federate:-(.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago

Thanks for that, I agree it is really annoying having moderation doesn't federate, or is obfuscated.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm beginning to think that .world should be avoided. Not defederated, but mirror subs should be started on other instances and everyone who doesn't like this attitude / activity should deliberately boycott .world subs in favor of the alternatives.

Somewhat of an aside, I think this sort of behavior is far worse than what got everybody up in arms about Hexbear. I never disliked Hexbears; I see them as a tight-knit community that existed for multiple years before the Lemmy influx from the old site. I think they genuinely felt despair over the changes that federation brought to their instance and I feel sorry for them. Maybe if people make enough noise about the bad behavior of .world mods we can raise awareness and effect change.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

!world@quokk.au instead of !world@lemmy.world
!usa@ponder.cat instead of !news@lemmy.world
!politics@sh.itjust.works instead of !politics@lemmy.world

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[–] Viri4thus@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Strong IRC vibes, nostalgia trip FTW.

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

#quakeed represent.

I'm on .world because it was the first option and I wasn't sure I'd use lemmy. I do not have room in my life for server wars.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago

Interesting case. Not giving any opinion right now, but as always, !world@quokk.au is an alternative to the LW one.

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