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.

  • Skavau@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    To be fair, there’s a bit of apples-to-oranges here. Rimu’s stuff here that you’ve mentioned is closer to a general ‘anti-slop’ mentality than being directed to a specific persuasion, at least in the things you referred to. Having it set by default that upvotes in meme communities don’t boost your reputation, or blocking greentext isn’t something that specifically aligns with a leftist, centrist or rightist template - if that makes sense.

    Now, if you want to refer to the default defederation of hexbear, lemmygrad - then sure. That could be argued.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
      3·
      6 hours ago

      it’s the idea of undisclosed opinionated decisions i’m against. i have no issues with opinionated software, as long as those opinions are clearly stated. the behavior of the devs is a different issue to the things they put in their software, and lemmy is less opinionated than piefed. the devs are a lot more opinionated, but that seems to have resulted in more neutral functionality.

    • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      Now, if you want to refer to the default defederation of hexbear, lemmygrad - then sure. That could be argued.

      But not without defending both of those instances, and you’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a rational argument for that.