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Anyone else seeing the irony of objecting to ml politics being discussed on a platform built by a ml for discussing and organizing around ml politics?
To clarify, since this topic is something that I have experienced quite a lot over my two months here, now: I do not have any problem whatsoever with tankie/communist/leftist politics. I also don't have a problem with people discussing them.
What I do have a problem with is:
And I think it's ok to think that these practices are inherently bad for a social media platform, and working with others to advocate against those practices.
The entire point of federated social media is there isn't centralized control: every instance is able to set their own rules and enforce them how they choose to. They don't have to allow you to use their instance and you don't have to allow them yours.
"I don't like how they're moderating me" - well good thing they built the platform so you can choose moderation that suits you better
I understand your point, but when a group of ideologues has de facto control over one of/some of the largest entities on a social media platform, and bans people for ideology without warning, explanation, or recourse, this amounts to centralized control, or at the very least undue influence.
For me personally, it wouldn't be a big issue if .ml made its bend and moderation practices clear, because I could have avoided the headache when I was first using lemmy. I wouldn't choose to engage with a forum that has "no critique of any country that calls itself Communist is allowed, anywhere, ever, for any reason, or we will bar you from participating in all communities on this platform" and I'm sure a lot of others feel the same way. What's more, I bet the admin of .ml know that, too, and keep these practices opaque because they are interested in new users.
Why don't .ml users retreat to hexbear or lemmygrad, if making the moderation practices on one of the largest instances fair is so odious?
Hey, look, its why nobody takes you seriously.
So are you just generally an asshole, or just right now?
You're arguing that the people who BUILT LEMMY and the people who have been around long before some Reddit drama should bail on their own instance, built to be their instance for their purposes, for YOUR comfort.
Maybe re-evaluate what "being an asshole" means before you go around calling people names.
Oh.
lmao the gall of complaining about not being allowed to espouse your ideological opinion on their instance, and then suggesting they should be the ones to retreat to a different space.
Well it seems like all those people are able to understand and live by those moderation practices just fine, maybe it's a good thing that you're not on .ml? Lemmy.ml has been happily existing as their own thing and their own rules, don't you think it's a little backwards that you're suggesting they relinquish their community so that... what, everyone who's not currently a part of .ml can move in? Is this a new form of digital colonialism I'm just not aware of?
If you really don't like .ml then block them, or get your instance admins to de-federate, or, idk, maybe just know whose house you're in when you're engaging in arguments along ideological fault lines? They have a different opinion than you and don't tolerate users who push that boundary, that doesn't sound unreasonable when there are 600 or so other servers you could move to or start your own. If they haven't banned you outright congratulations, you get another chance to participate.
IDK, I've somehow managed to avoid more than 1 or 2 comment removals on any of the instances (despite being infamous in .world for getting into it all the fucking time) over the last year, maybe it's not a problem with their moderation but a problem with... dare I say it?... you?
Not really, it's software which specifically allows people to defederate, so it's by design that you'd have splinters.
Right, which is why pointing this out is especially silly