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I just realised, I can't post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there's a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

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[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Currently only on world news lemmy.ml

[–] Terevos@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I unsubscribed from world news on lemmy.ml as soon as I heard about them being tankies. Lemmy.world has the same community with mostly the same posts anyway.

[–] throws_lemy@lemmy.nz -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean this really upsetting since they have c/technology and c/privacy communities. Someone might post something like high-tech surveillance of actvtists or Uyghurs

[–] Terevos@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

There's a reason I don't mod any communities on that instance. I don't understand why other people would either.

[–] static@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too bad It's impossibe too see wich mod is doing what.
It could be a general lemmy.ml policy, it could allso just be that the first worldnews mod is opiniated , and chose his own modteam for worldnews.

[–] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too bad It's impossibe too see wich mod is doing what.

Can't users see which moderator/admin removed content in the modlog?

[–] static@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

It just says mod/admin on lemmy.ml , on kbin you can see the mod-username.

[–] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

So what's the problem? It's a ban-happy three-person mod team shaping a community. There are other communities with the same explicit subject. When a community's mods move it in a direction you don't like, you join or make a different one, and the nature of Lemmy means they haven't even camped an important community name.

It's not even a particularly tankie sub, there're posts calling Russia warmongers still up and at +82. Seems like most of the removals were posts trying to pick fights. And while tankie bashing is often fun and warranted, it's not really extreme censorship to say that's breaking a rule saying "everyone should feel welcome here".