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Was having some nice discussions in the news instance regarding a post about the Columbian Presidents comments on cocaine, but the thread got nuked within the last hour.

I normally would move on, but this has begun to happen with more and more frequency. Not really interested in participating in anything that will just get removed based on some rando's personal feelings towards a topic.

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[โ€“] bizarroland@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If your views are not compatible with the moderator or community's views and they keep getting removed, you are free to go and find a different instance.

Nobody's getting paid to work here, so the only people that do the work are the people who volunteer their time, and chances are if they're constantly exposed to the same stupid shit over and over again, they're gonna get grouchy, they're gonna get grumpy, and they're gonna just start blanket banning anything that even slightly aggravates them.

You can say it's power-tripping, and you can protest it when it's unequally applied to you. That's fair, But you just have to live with it because this is not a business, this is not a customer service oriented situation, this is a "make the community as comfortable as possible for as many people as possible while maintaining your sanity" position for the mods.

I am not a moderator. I would not do moderation tasks because I see how stressful it is. I am also not apologizing on their behalf or trying to sugarcoat the situation.

It sucks for you, getting your posts removed. It sucks for a lot of people not getting to interact with those posts, but it's a take what you can get sort of thing.

The good thing is, if you absolutely do not want your post to be removed, you are perfectly welcome to spin up your own lemmy instance and federate it and then share your post with the entire fediverse without any sort of moderation whatsoever.

Even with that though, the other instances of the Fediverse can defederate with you if they find your whole thing to just cause more headache and hassle than it's worth to them.

[โ€“] kandoh@reddthat.com 0 points 1 day ago

Sounds like I should just use Bluesky exclusively then.