This also applies to Tankie instances like .ml. If you’re critical of them in entirely different instances. Last straw for me was getting a comment removed for “bigotry” when I responded that I still visit r/rimworld on a thread asking how things are since the reddit migration. Nothing in my post was bigotted in any way, so I assume one of the mods sifted through my comment history and saw I had recently mocked Tankies in a different thread entirely
it’s a problem on .world, too, including their matrix instance.
It’s getting worse lately with the tankies here. Seems like hexbear and lemmygrad are spilling over, not a surprise shortly before the election but I’m worried people will leave because of it.
Does Lemmy have a feature for individual users to block instances?
lemm.ee does, anything hexbear is auto blocked for me, and after that rogue comment removal, I added .ml to that. I have a feeling in the future I might have to ban more as the Tankies try and dodge people making it clear we dont want to listen to their brain cancer
tbh I think its because people started to block Hexbear and Lemmygrad more, so they had to migrate to the more tolerated servers more because none of us wanted to hear them talk about minority rights in their one hand while jerking off dictatorships with the other
This is one of the problems with the public mod log that Lemmy has. Transparency is one of the worst things to have when dealing with bad faith actors since it’s nothing but a public record of their “accomplishments.” It won’t stop shitty mods from being shitty.
One of the problems with the public mod log on a federated site is a moderator can just write something egregious for the ban reason and then the user is stuck with that. It propagates across instances too. I have a huge list of banned users who I never actually banned, and I assumed were banned by other instance moderators.
Having a lot of features to try to thwart bad moderation on a federated platform isn’t really that important anyway since it’s easy for anyone to simply create their own instance and users can migrate there.
I mean, the issue with my comment removal wasnt the transparency, it was that I had a harmless and perfectly contributing comment removed for no reason, the “Transparency” of “Rule 1” didnt apply to my comment in any way, nor was I causing a commotion on the thread.
edit: Lmao ok, the modlog is back to showing what my comment was, apparently I DID call out Tankies, albet passively, in my removed comment. So a bit snowflakey, but NOT as bad as I originally thought. Oh well, any instance that thinks the word Tanky is bigotry isnt really worth my time either
