You were banned for rule 2, which is no political content. If we want to be charitable, it's possible that the mod considers talking about Russia's lack of technological progress to be a political statement. I can't imagine why somebody would be upset about that unless they had a hard-on for Russia, but surely that's not the case when the moderator also decided to extend the ban to such politically neutral communities as "Anarchist memes", "Socialism", and "The Right Can't Meme."

What's more insane is that you were banned from 20 communities in total, many of which aren't even related. Fucking power mods...

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Low opportunity power tripping is so common in russia, it has it's own term "синдром вахтёра" (watchman's syndrome). The .ml people go extra mile when cosplaying the mother russia.

[–] Dasus 4 points 1 day ago

This particular watchman pretends to be an American, by the way, but yeah, that's exactly what he's doing. Thanks for the term!

[–] Dasus 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.. somebody would be upset about that unless they had a hard-on for Russia

He clearly does.

Want to know the fun bit?

Davel refuses to answer whether he's pro-Russian. Which he clearly is. He literally claims to be an American. An American who somehow happens to favour Russia, say things like "reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias" and "Ukraine needs to be denazified by Russia" and "Uighur genocide isn't happening" (that last one is kinda 2019, but still.)

People like him are not an insignificant part of why Trump won.

[–] pivot_root 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Going through some of the communities you were banned in, Davel isn't a mod in any of them that I checked. In fact, a lot of them only have a single mod, and it's not even the same user.

I think you actually pissed off one of the .ml admins, and I'm willing to bet it's the same one that's both a self-proclaimed tankie, core Lemmy dev, and the only moderator of the socialism community on their instance. You were even instance banned for 7 days:

Banned [email protected]
reason: Rule 2
expires: in 7 days

Notice the lack of community name in that entry. I thought the .ml admins learned something from the backlash last time they abused their position and banned people from communities they don't moderate, but I can't say I'm surprised that they're going back to their old tricks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Clearly, changes must be made.

How can we ban @[email protected] from accessing the mod logs?

Otherwise people will keep licking that boot of transparency, verified information, and freedom.

[–] pivot_root 1 points 17 hours ago

There's one magic command for that:

iptables -A input -s 0.0.0.0/0 -j DROP

[–] Dasus 1 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Huh, weird how I still managed to post a comment on Lemmy.ml a few hours ago.

https://lemmy.world/comment/13778521

The firefox lemmy.ml community. It's just a matter of time before that comment is deleted though, and I get banned from that community as well, methinks.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Thank you for the research

[–] Dasus 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This ban happened literally seconds or ar most a minute or two after leaving the comment. (edit2 now I actually feel heatenings from saying that as one can probably tell from the timestamps and it might just be it felt like seconds to me)

So either Davel is himself all those accounts, or he's in some organised network of sorts.

They don't like the fact that I actually challenge the Russian propaganda. Davel actually pretends to be an American. While saying things like "reality has a well known Russian propaganda bias" and "there are no Russian trolls on Lemmy".

It's literally organised Russian disinformation. And if you look at him and AntiOutsideAktion and the other propagandist mods and admins, a lot of the were really active in US political discussion, "you shouldn't vote Harris, she supports genocide" sort of thing.

Most people will ignore this as too serious, but, yeah... it's pretty serious, and I won't stop calling out Russian bad actors online.

Edit typo and to add this gif

[–] HootinNHollerin 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Insanely fragile if you say anything not in line with their propaganda machine

desalines especially so

[–] Dasus 9 points 1 day ago

Or generally just if you point out they are part of a propaganda machine. Or that one even exists in the first place.

[–] dual_sport_dork 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Aw, man. Did you go and insult the Dendy?

[–] Dasus 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

That is exactly what I did. I knew it reminded me of something, I just couldn't remember what. Thank you. Haha.

[–] Sludgehammer 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How thin skinned. Heck, I was buying 2600 stuff in 1996. It was retro by that point.

[–] Dasus 18 points 1 day ago

Right?

Dude really got pissed. I remember getting some pirated games from Estonia in the 90's and Estonia was halfway further to the West than Russia.

In 1996, the N64 was released. Unfortunately it took until the spring of 1997 for my dad to get us one. I fucking loved him for that. The most amazing suprise in my life. It wasn't a christmas, a birthday, nothing. Dad just got us a N64 as a surprise. Fucking 3D gaming, flying around in Star Wars ships. It was AMAZING. RIP Dad

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Next time replace the word Russia with Alabama. See if you still get banned.

[–] Dasus 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can see you have a point. I just don't what the point is you're trying to make?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They are still living 40 years behind everyone.

[–] Dasus 1 points 1 day ago

Ah, yes, now I get it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Now the question is, what mod? So I can block them edit: oh it's in the post

[–] pivot_root 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It wasn't a mod that did it. Mods can't make site-wide user bans.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait, then who did?

[–] pivot_root 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm not going to mention names because I can't actually see who did it, but the vague modlog ban message of "Rule x" and overreaching bans are vaguely reminiscent of another time this happened.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yoink, that too then