Lemmy world is fucking weird. They spam the word "zionist" too much.
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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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Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
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Some acronyms you might see.
- PTB - Power-Tripping Bastard: The commenter agrees with you this was a PTB mod.
- YDI - You Deserved It: The commenter thinks you deserved that mod action.
- YDM new - You Deserved More: The commenter thinks you got off too lightly.
- BPR - Bait-Provoked Reaction: That mod probably overreacted in charged situation, or due to being baited.
- CLM - Clueless Mod: The mod probably just doesn't understand how their software works.
Relevant comms
Honestly it feels like Zionist and tankie are the new "Nazi" name calling (like calling a random commenter a Nazi, on the old internet before actual Nazis like Elon Musk came out of the white supremacy closet).
Kinda wish we had a filter or word block because it's exhausting watching the name calling just flinging around
It is, isn't it? They throw it around if anyone dares to question their position. It is weird to have this odd Rift in the world, and even in US politics, with people like Schumer basically swearing allegiance to another nation when most people dont really know or care about what is happening.
Great meme, PTB.
lowkey ur first mistake was participating in a shitpost community lmao
edit: ptb obviously
PTB
That was a great post!
This meme below got removed a few days ago. I think if you post anything controversial that rustles enough jimmies to make people rage-cry report you, they just remove the post rather than deal with angry nerds.

Or they just really hate trains, the jerks!
Edit: Same mod
I disagree with your meme, especially during primary season, but I still upvoted because I think everyone should be able to post their "controversial" memes.
down with trains!
*This message was written by big unicycle
Hear me out. A monorail made solely of unicycles strung together. Win-win!
I mean, that's why we are against train. With train tracks, we can have 2x density, with bidirectional traffic.
Unicycle or bust
You are now a moderator of c/lemmyshitpost
I'll be honest. Even as an anarcho-communist, I don't care for these kinds of political reductions.
However, given that it's a shitposting community, seems like lost-nuance is kind of part and parcel to the spirit of the community (which is why I don't go there). I'd call this PTB.
How dare you shitpost in the shitposting community. Your post is exactly the kind of thing I like to see there.
I agree, the mod probably didn't like the political message.
PTB!
Bruh, I criticized the two-party system, and admitted I voted third party (Socialist Party) in the 2024 presidential election. Lemmy is STILL pissed off about it and says I'm a Trumper--all because I didn't Democrat. More and more people are starting to realize a 2-party system sucks, but damn, Lemmy ain't their yet.
You marked for life now, dawg! Good luck! LMAO
(Oh and fuck you Lemmy, I'm gonna vote third party in the next election too. :) )
I am not able to comprehend people criticizing voting for third party. What is the meaning of vote if you cannot select a candidate of your choice?
Exactly my thoughts! It's finally becoming more common to think like this on Lemmy now, but holy hell... in 2024 many Lemmy's legit wanted to crucify people who thought like this. And they still follow me around and regularly ask that I be banned from the entire fediverse!
I'm not going anywhere tho. :) And I'm so proud of how mad they got, I put their comments and posts in my profile banner:

I’m not going anywhere tho. :) And I’m so proud of how mad they got, I put their comments and posts in my profile banner:
Based :)
Yeah I've been fending off those freaks like they're extras running at me one at a time in a kung-fu movie with bad takes. I'm not even American, I wasn't eligible to vote in the 2024 election, but because I criticized Joe Biden/Kamala Harris, that must mean I just fuckin LOVE Trump.

Yep, exact same kind of comments I was getting
you angered the libs by pointing out they're fascists.
the meme is still up in !anarchymemes@anarchist.nexus, so they can mald about it there.
PTB, as they say. If you scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds.
Before long, people are gonna accuse you of being me. lol
Wouldn't be surprising, liberals usually resort to making bad faith accusations when they don't have anything to counter with.
PTB
Good meme :)
Flyingsquid has been inactive for a year now
I had a quick look through and pretty much every moderator on that community has almost no activity recently, I wonder if they're using their accounts for moderator action only, and participating on another account.
Something something it’s more dignified to be killed by blue, just don’t post in .world, help grow other servers
Someone has to get dirty rolling around in the trenches with the hogs, gotta burst their bubble occasionally. But yep, you're right.
Welcome to Reddit, but mostly bots.
Nah I reported your post too. Stop spamming US internal political shit in the shitpost community. Keep that to a US politics community
Thanks for sharing and being honest and I totally get it, but don't you think that should be a rule that's fairly and equally enforced, not just applied to posts that the mods personally disagree with?
Yeah fair point, it definitely should be applied equally and its not right if its only subject to mods' opinions. I really wish the community would ban political posts entirelyi need some reprieve from the doom
The problem with banning politics is determining what's considered political. Not long ago divorce, adoption, abortion, nazis, and women wearing pants were hot topics. Now it's immigration, abortion and nazis again, and queer folks wearing skirts.
I'd rather endure some of that doom and gloom through a shipost than the rapid onslaught of panic-inducing headlines.



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