I know that lemmy’s moto is if you don’t like it here make your own, but for communities with big sub numbers and where current event discussions happens. banning controversial political opinions is not what I would have expected from the fediverse after having left corporate media, which could be excused for having to answer to investors and what not!
After I got a comment banned for what I think is nothing else but controversial, where it received quite the same amount of upvotes and downvotes, I took a look at that community’s mod log, and there is nothing to be cheerful about. the same reddit mods have made it to the fediverse and are trying to turn it into the same hive mind other social media are, it is a shame it is turning out to this.
What comment deletion OP is throwing a fit about. OP basically claimed jews controlled the US. That OP wasn’t given a ban is surprising, and will be corrected.
How long is the comment ban for?
I don’t know lemmy is still not very transparent about which mod banned for which comment and where to contest a ban or report mod abuses.
Anyways I might just drop news and political communities as they tend to only allow views that are in accordance with their biases. or maybe even drop lemmy altogether
Make it a porn community like they did back in r/worldpolitics
In my experience, this is nothing new and sadly something that is to be expected. Mods need to be people that are perpetually online, and those people tend to have a severe lack of experience when it comes to handling and controlling any level of power.
Unfortunately calling them out like this and hoping the drama gains enough traction to cause change is the only effective solution I’ve ever seen have somewhat meaningful impact.
