Thanks. I take great pains to try to write comments from a very neutral unbiased perspective. The effect I've noticed this has, is that people who cannot help but have a bias, tend to think I'm promoting whatever it is they're against.

Usually when I make a statement about my opinion, I very clearly indicate that's what I'm doing.... but people will judge something that they read through the lens of their bias, as something opposed to whatever they're biased towards, and they're quick to condemn whatever I say, without fully understanding what it is I'm actually trying to say.

This is a habit I've gotten into from work, because I deal with a lot of facts at work, purely to unbias myself from accusing someone or something of doing a thing. I do IT support, so it has been extremely helpful in tempering reactions to news I have to tell people sometimes. "Looks like the file was deleted at 2:33 PM on Tuesday", is better than "You deleted the file at 2:33 PM on Tuesday"..... That's a very simplistic and reductive example, but I think you get the point.

All I want to say now is that I appreciate the lemmy.ca mods and admins more now. I've banned lemmy.ml from my account settings, so hopefully I can have a much more enjoyable experience around here. Thanks for the reply. Keep up the good work.

Again; I'm just the messenger. Didn't make the decisions.

I think there's a few mods on .ml that misunderstood some of my posts and now have a grudge against me so they basically ban me on sight.

Any explanations or anything I say about it after the fact, regardless of what I say, only serves to make them dislike me more. I don't get it.

The last time I even engaged with one of them, I looked at the profile and the person had a very religious profile. Instead of bothering to continue discussing with them, I blocked them. Bluntly, if you're so deep into brainwashing that your entire personality is your religion, it's probably not worth my time to talk to you.

I have zero issue with people who are religious, right up until they preach at me, or try to impose their morality on others by law. You can believe, but don't force everyone else to believe whatever you do.

IDK. At this point I'm considering blocking pretty much every community on Lemmy.ml just to avoid the toxicity I've experienced there.

They didn't express a grade school level understanding of political science or below, which is a requirement for posting on Lemmy.ml

so they don’t appear on my “all” feed (which is how I frequently end up on there).

Ah, fair enough. I normally just view "subscribed" communities; "whitelist" rather than "blacklist". Every now and then, I'll hit lemmyverse.net or so and see if there are interesting-looking new communities.