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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The most funny fact here is the articles that came in the same time.
Zelensky predicts that Putin 'Will Die Soon'
And from the New York Times:
It just shows that Lemmy or Reddit, both have terrible mods and both can silence your voice on command without any reason.
So you are posting Russian propaganda and complain when you are banned for posting Russian propaganda?
I dunno geo-trends.eu, but it does read like exactly the rhetoric pushed on kremlin funded or operated disinformation websites. Like painting Russia as looking for peace and Trump as a genuine negociator is at best immensely naïve, at worst straight up disinformation. (I encourage anyone who disagrees with me to look at the past 30 years of Ukrainian history, context helps).
Generally mods don’t have infinite time. So it they see a tiny website with little to no outside references, and the article they saw reads like Kremlin disinfo, they’ll probably remove it.
I’m not saying the mods necessarily made the right decisions, but I don’t blame them for removing the article. I do question the one month ban though, especially if this was a first time they’ve removed one of your posts/comments.
I don't agree with the length of ban personally, but I'd say YDI because that article is trash. No, I don't want to explain why it's trash. More than just being Pro-Russia, it's also supportive of the Trump regime in the USA in a way that feels like bootlicking.
Your article do looks like Russian propaganda
Very. I'm not mad.
just have to read first 3 paragraphs from your links to see it's russian bullshit. dude, use your critical thinking
Well your linked article can be understood and pretty hard retelling of Russia‘s and thus Trump‘s narrative, while denigrating European perspective and interests.
The mods aren’t terrible if they try to filter what the consider blatant propaganda from a dubious publication.
It could also be banned for low quality.
You are correct that there isn’t a lot of diversity of thought and perspective in many subreddits/communities. The overall extreme polarization has strengthened the echo chambers.
You’ve operated this account for 30 days and originated over 600 posts with it. Now you’re going to whine about how hot the kitchen is?
No one is saying that your voice doesn't risk getting silenced on Lemmy. If they are saying that, it isn't true. Anyone risks getting censored anywhere they go on the web. (If it's your own hosted server however..)
If you join a Lemmy instance server with your rule style, then you can post on their communities and not have as high a risk of getting banned. Once you venture onto communities hosted on other instances.
Since things are federated, things may get dicey for you depending on what you might decide to post, and on the rules of the other instances. (and the communities.)
There are rules and guidelines everywhere you go, and they re always changing when you go onto other servers and communities.
Imaginary peace is cool, hope european leaders actually smarter than the goldfish and can understand that giving into r*ssian blackmail is going to lead to bigger war.
I generally don't support removal of content but this is Russian propaganda so I ain't gonna judge although maybe debunking as such would more helpful way to handle it.
It would turn into a pissing contest with tankies tho
Just report on world news sub on lemmy.ml they will give you a medal for it.
Can. You. Prove. It?
I am tired of people making baseless claims on the comments. If you are going to make a claim, then support it to show that you are right.
I am the resident shitposter, boy, and I ain't doing this stupid circle jerk.
Russian talking point is a Russian talking point. I am not the only reading as Russian talking points.
Your choice to try to spread it but don't come in here acting like you are "contributing"
It is a free place and people are free to make their judgement on content you attempting to spread.
I think the onus is on you to express what your journalistic standards, source selection criteria, and research processes are; since you have taken a position as a profligate poster.
Such high traffic deserves community scrutiny.
What work did you do, and do you do on the 20-30 reposts per day to prove that you are not disseminating such content?
It just shows that Lemmy or Reddit, both have terrible mods and both can silence your voice on command without any reason.
Nowadays on Reddit something similar would probably get you perma banned site wide
PTB. Unless the mods knows something about the author I don't. I don't agree with the article that much but I don't see a need for the mods to play thought police.