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I was thinking of migrating to .world when I saw how annoying the .ml profanity filter is ("fire removedant") but now I'm glad I didn't.
Edit: oops, right, this is midwest.social. Anyway, I have seen .world ban for the same normie takes but it was only a suspension
And of course he defended musks salute, is a transphobe and does not know what genocide is.
https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/19124820/12601741
The one I linked was someone else - I was just talking about in general, banning someone for an opinion of theirs that doesn't inherently mean they're a nazi/fascist/communist/etc
I was going by the screenshot and missed the linked user.
The word filter is a blunt instrument applied to a gnarly problem. I still see trolls try to slide malformed vocabulary and coded phrasing to harass .ml users and vex the mods. But how long do you really expect mods/admins to work on the problem of "the perfect phrasing filter" when the root problem is inevitably the assholes who come to spam the chat with hate?
Just use fire extinguisher or fire suppressant. It's not like the filter throws the entire post in the trash.
I think the word filter is silly. If people want to say bad words let them. Other people will tell them to fuck off if it's inappropriate, or report them and get them banned if it's bad enough.
But what do I know, I say the word retarded because the euphemism treadmill for words that mean distinctly less intelligent than average is totally out of hand.
I think its dated. There was definitely a point, ten or fifteen years ago, when people were very casual with certain slurs and blurring them out was a good way to tap down the inevitable internal board drama over phrasing. But now they're less common, so you see more people tripping over the triggers than invoking them intentionally.
At the same time, I think we're headed back in the direction of chuds going on a message board (or out into a crowd) and spamming the n-word as some kind of in-group Owning the Left right-of-passage.
So I won't begrudge its existence.
I remember clinging to the word "gay" back in college, for what I thought was similar reasons. And it just kept feeling more and more off-key to use, until eventually I stopped of my own accord.
I imagine I'm a bit younger than you. I remember gay=lame very well. I said it. Everyone said it. Then around starting high school I stopped saying it. I knew out of the closet gay people at that point.
I think there's a big difference between gay meaning lame and retarded meaning stupid.
Lol, did you know, that aircrafts sometimes call out "Retard"?
https://youtu.be/vmbzKsqKQoI?t=34
It means pull back on the throttle, not the um... ableist slur.
😉
That's based as shit, stay on .ml if you've got a beef with it lol
I think .ml ban people too for being anti-communist but even if i knew of a good alternative, i don't think there's proper migrating on Lemmy like Mastodon has - only making a new account
Sh.itjust.works pretty much never bans unless you break international law or spam. Unfortunately that means sometimes Nazis come to this instance but usually they're bullied out.
As someone that had a .ml account until it was explained to me that racism is explicitly allowed on ml.. it's okay on this instance. You lose hexbear but that's the only downside.
Just never fall for .ee or .world. terrible instances, those.
So what's wrong with .world really? I didn't know shit about Lemmy when I signed up and now I have a two year history. I have a dbzer0 account because they align with my values, but I prefer to use this one because my post history is on here.
.world is the biggest instance and probably has the most new people but what's really wrong with it?
The easiest, simplest way I can describe it is .world is 2024 reddit, but if they didn't have corporate sponsors to blame for their actions.
Every decision they make from moderation to the type of communities they defederate with aligns with the most milquetoast US neoliberal viewpoint and sensibility. If that works for you, that's great until you find the edges of your walled sandbox. But most of us were perma site banned from reddit for being too left wing or otherwise offending the sensibilities of people that believe the US is the peak of humanity that just needs people to vote harder to solve all the problems of the world.
I was wondering why you always seem to have such a hate-boner for .world so I checked your modlog.
It just begs the question:
Why is it that the more shit someone has to talk about a community the bigger the garbage-heap of a modlog they have?
Yes, I tend to piss off right wing neoliberal little shits with too much power.
.world is run by them. Occasionally they wander out of containment.
So, you admit to being a huge troll, then you cry about how you’re unfairly treated because people don’t tolerate trolls.
This is why no one will ever take people like you seriously.
Never said I was a troll, I said I piss off crybaby right wingers like yourself.
There's a pretty big difference, reality tends to piss you people off, like the reality that the vast majority of people that voted for Trump aren't bigots, they just don't believe Dems after decades of the dem party destroying their life and lying to them.
So, I don’t know if you have difficulty reading, or if it’s just that you think the rules should apply to you, but if you purposefully go to a place with the intent to antagonize people because you don’t agree with them, and you are fully aware of the rules of conduct that adults are required to follow-
-then you’re either an absolute embarrassment of a troll, or a child.
And if you think calling me a right winger is going to get under my skin, then tire a far worse troll than I assumed.
My comment history serves as all the proof needed that you have no clue what you’re talking about.
I very purposefully avoid you people, I left reddit. But you people followed us to lemmy. You people don't stay in your containment of .world. you people constantly fucking bitch and moan about the left and call everyone to the left of 'burning literal fucking children alive' a tankie.
Then you fucks call everyone that corrects you when you do venture out of containment a troll.
Honestly it's pathetic. You people currently own and control reddit. That's your ideology and your people there. You won there. You banned every left wing person from that site during your enshittification campaign. Why fuck with us here.
Ad hominem because you have no argument? Wow! Isn’t that typical troll behavior? It seems that’s all you have though, isn’t it? Unsubstantiated claims, and when accused of being the troll you are- with proof, you throw a tantrum- thus reinforcing the accusation.
Thanks for playing.
I get .world, but what's wrong with .ee? I thought that one was supposed to be cool?
They've had some really weird communities pop up in the past and have had some moments of protecting transphobic mods (at least if I remember the PTB comm threads correctly)
Thanks for the background.
Wait, racism explicitly allowed on .ml?
That doesn't sound very Marxist. He was very clear (probably on account of being Jewish)
Yes, as per their explicit policy, you can never be racist or discriminatory against white people no matter what you say or do.
Or in other words they believe in the power dynamic version of racism, instead of the idea that racism is discrimination based on race.
Huh, that's weird, I don't see that at all.
Just "no bigotry," rule 1.
I wonder why one of the guys sealioning in defense of Nazis would lie about that?
Did you misread what I wrote or what little one? I haven't been defending Nazis, I personally think all Nazis, including most Israelis and Americans, should be explicitly unabashedly killed after a fair trial by a jury of their victims.
That being said being racist towards white people is not against the bigotry rule on ml. You can find this out for yourself, as I did, by reporting instances of it as you find it.
If you think you can't be racist towards white, you're closer to a Nazi than one of their victims.
LoL
Keep digging
I was thinking of migrating to .world when I saw how annoying the .ml profanity filter is ("fire removedant") but now I'm glad I didn't.
(Edit: oops this was midwest.social - idk if .world ban as much for this)