Mod abuses, power trips

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A place to discuss and call out mod abuse on Lemmy (or elsewhere if you really want to), or power trips

A more free speech alternative to [email protected] and [email protected]

  1. Revealing the mods identities is authorized
  2. Don't harass people
  3. Explain the situation and context, explain why you think this is abusive
  4. Avoid brigading, prefer boycotting
  5. Avoid trolling, [email protected] is a better place for this
  6. Meta (posts about this community) are authorized

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I have been banned from the lemmy.ca instance for what I suspect is posting this post: https://lemmybefree.net/post/1255852

The reason does not make sense, I never posted this type of content. 2 days prior to the instance-wide ban, I got a post removed from communitypromo in which I talked about a crypto community. I contacted them and they never replied.

I suspect a false ban reason was used to censor me.

Fuck lemmy.ca I guess, another instance to boycott

(the instance-wide bans aren't federated on lemmy, so they don't appear in other instances' modlogs)

admin: @recursive_[email protected]

UPDATE: I have been unbanned, apparently they banned the wrong user. Still seems fishy considering my post was previously removed as spam. I still haven’t been contacted.

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I just found out that there's a local mod abuse community. Cool!

A lemmy.ml admin (https://lemmy.ml/u/cypherpunks) censored blasphemy, claiming rule 1 "No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia".

Here is the original comment: https://lemmy.zip/comment/20729770 and post: https://lemmy.ml/post/34489826

The admin also censored this image: https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/39f58cfd-d6b7-4fdc-bbf6-b8c4b465c423.png (see here: https://i.ibb.co/YFHb5KxK/image.png)

I am not sure if everyone agrees with me, but I believe blasphemy should be a right. Blasphemy isn't bigotry!

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for the inaugural post, I think we should talk about how the mod of this community defended ableist slurs against neurodivergent people and called the mod who gave a temporary ban to a .ml user for it "fucking stupid".