Remember when the whole point of leaving Reddit was escaping heavy-handed moderation and echo chambers? Yeah, about that.
I've been banned more times in the fediverse in a few months than I ever was in years on Reddit. At least on Reddit, the rules exist and you can see them—even if enforcement is spotty, you know what you're supposedly violating. Here, it's whatever mood the local mod is in that day.
Got banned today from lemmy.ca for "AI slop." There's no such rule anywhere on the instance. The real reason? My post didn't fit their narrow ideological box. No debate, no warning, no discussion—just the banhammer.
The fediverse promised freedom from corporate censorship. What we got instead is a bunch of small fiefdoms run by virtue-signaling mods who silence anyone who steps one toe outside their approved narrative. It's more fragmented, more arbitrary, and honestly more authoritarian than the platform we all supposedly fled.
Decentralization without a real commitment to free expression is just decentralization of censorship.
edit: I've written an article with my opinions on the topic.
The Opium of the Labels: How Woke Moralism Serves Capital
Nah, you’re the one creating division with your queerphobic bullshit.
Could you be more specific? Because to me it feels like you are just making up stuff.
The CIA Document That Predicted Wokism (1985)
Get banned more, homophobe
Proving my point: Your divisive rhetoric pushes the working class toward fascism by ignoring material conditions for identity politics. Do you care about child labor exploitation, or just labels? You’re a bourgeois moralist who doesn’t care about exploitation—just virtue-signaling.
Get banned more, racist.
Classic—no argument, just name-calling. You've called me a homophobe and now a racist in under an hour without a single quote to back it up. This lazy labeling is exactly why working people tune out and drift right. And btw, the fascists are the ones who disregard words and choose violence instead—maybe you're the fascist here. How do you like my virtue signaling?
Eat shit, racist.
There it is—when the name-calling fails, just double down on it. You've got nothing but labels and hostility, which is exactly why working people don't take you seriously.
Happy to double down on the labels for you (while providing the quotes from you that demonstrate them), it’s quite clear how much you hate people with any type of labels.
I’ve provided quotes from you that demonstrate your hatred and it’s quite clear to the other folks in this thread that you’re a bigot.
I've written an article about my opinions on the topic. The Opium of the Labels: How Woke Moralism Serves Capital