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Censorship. All the major subreddits became political echo-chambers. Reddit was founded on free speech and open discourse, especially when it was really uncomfortable. I'd love to see the same for Lemmy. Over the years I've seen authoritarianism creep into the moderation policies of most major subreddits. Today, even posting on the wrong subreddit is grounds for being banned from dozens of major subreddits. Even having a polite disagreement about, for example, anything to do with "trans," is grounds for being banned.
That's the same here unfortunately.
It also sucks when you're not American, like Reddit auto-banned a load of Irish and Brits discussing stopping smoking due to the colloquial term there.
Unfortunately all these American-based websites really force the American views and positions on everyone.
Well that explains it. I'm not American either and I really feel like I'm being forced into their weird social war. I just want to talk about cool gadgets without some culture warrior banning me everywhere because I didn't show the requisite fealty to whatever the current thing is.
Yeah, one thing I hope to leave behind with Reddit is every major subreddit farming outrage w.r.t. American politics.
It just became exhausting and made me unsub from a lot of the big subreddits. So far, Lemmy has been quite positive! It's refreshing.
I don't know if it is true but I feel like Lemmy is not really USA centric at the moment. More like assuming that a user could be from any country. I think that we should keep it that way.
Fediverse is really international since instances are everywhere in the globe
Yes! I haven't seen a single answer starting with 'in my state' yet and I'd like to keep it that way.
I feel the same way. I'm looking at a sub with pictures of pointy tail cats, the T word doesn't belong here.
Yeah, I got banned from loads of random subreddits for posting in /r/LockdownSkepticism just supporting the policy of where I live (in Sweden). It was bizarre.
Likewise if you dared oppose the US-specific policy of forcing toddlers to wear face-masks. Wasn't a thing anywhere in Europe, but you'd get banned for misinformation on Reddit.
You are showing plenty of fealty to bigotry, sinophobioa, pseudoscientific transphobia, and American notion of 'free speech' on web forums.
~~I'm deleting a few of your comments (they're in the modlog, if anyone wants to see) and generously giving you a 1 month ban. If you decide to come back then, or sooner with another account,~~ I recommend posting about cool gadgets (which you don't seem to have actually done yet).
edit: my ban was overridden by another admin; i'm new at this and might have overstepped.
edit2: they were later re-banned.
Which admin overrode you?
You were right to ban them, I don't understand why they aren't still banned
Whoever overrode you is a coward
You were right; whoever overrode you is being too nice to bigots. I'm honestly sickened right now.