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I mean, moderators are just people. When you put people to act as a judge, whether being in a court of law, or a internet forum, its the same problem with people having their own biases. Lemmy is new, has a small pool of users, there is a smaller selection of people to act as mods. But Lemmy is not run as a bussiness like reddit, so the instance admins that are just fediverse enthusiasts can step in and remove mods that are just powetripping, unlike reddit that doesn't want to do anything about it

I got banned once for saying the holocaust was one of many genocides throughout history and not unique...

Edit: I'm really curious to know if people downvoting the above statement think Nazis invented the genocide?

But that was one case, of course there are some mods that are just shit (or maybe just interpreted things wrong, made a mistake or acted based on emotions for various reasons) but if it's this many cases, it becomes kinda hard to believe that all of those mods are the issue and not the person getting banned by multiple mods

OP was helping people find meth on the dark web in the ADHD community and when their posts were removed they posted the same again.

The trans whatever thing seems like something I've wondered, and now I know better than to state any such opinions online.

They’re not saying who is it isn’t trans to gatekeep, they’re presenting the idea that some people might be less confused and make different life choices if more people tolerated traditionally-gendered subjects (like clothing and makeup) from anyone without judgement

When an identity seems to be defined by appearance/presentation to those who don't understand it personally, assuming the identity would occur less frequently if social norms were less restrictive does make sense. Like personally I don't think drag would be a thing if it wasn't a bit of a response to gender norms. I mean even if society didn't care about which gender wears which clothes some guys would get dolled up and even do essentially the same performative thing because some people just love to perform, but it wouldn't be the same thing that drag is now and it wouldn't be controversial to bigots. I mean women wearing pants was a huge fucking deal for no real reason and nobody really cares anymore.

But using clothing choices as a reason someone might be trans misses the point that a lot of trans people wore jeans and t shirts before and after transitioning because there is far more to it than the superficial appearance of clothing choice.

That said there could be better ways to show info like this on the fediverse. Except, it's complicated.

You could be banned on an instance, but also separately banned on an individual community on an instance, or your instance could be defederated from one running a community. Any of which could lock you out in theory.

It's not as clear cut as closed systems. This is mostly a good thing but for clarity, not so much :p

This is jsut kind of what happens if you dip into random posts on thr global feed. There is a mix of generalist Lemmy sites that expect people to behave like they're on Reddit, and everything's just a free for all, and insular sites that are focused on a narrower community, operating more like independent forums.

Stepping into one of these spaces, and treating it like a big, open one is going to get you tossed on your ass like you're DJ Jazzy Jeff in an Uncle Phil convention.

You need to be aware of what community you are engaging with around here, because it might not want your participation. That is not power tripping, that is just being unwelcoming.

Probably saw you say something that violates their community rules so they pre-emptively banned you.

Like hypothetically, if I was a mod of a LBGT+ community, and just browsing the news community and see someone start saying homophobic or transphobic slurs in another community I'm not a mod of, I can just do a preemptive ban so the user never has a chance to attack the users in my community. You get the idea?

The mods of that community doesn't want you there so they banned you before you can have a chance to do what they perceive to be rule-breaking.

The automated bot was created by the mod of pleasant politics in an effort to create a place to talk about politics that didn't have trolls and nasty people. It scans users across the lemmyverse and determines to ban or unban based on how inflammatory you are, which is determined by your downvote/upvotes ratio over time.