(Note that the quoted bit I’m replying to ends after the word “…issue” and my words begin at “What a fucking…”)

In roughly 30 years online, across a wide variety of communities on a wide variety of platforms, zero of them would have removed that comment as “trolling.”

Except .ml, apparently.

  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
    182·
    3 months ago

    One of us! One of us! --another former .ml user.

    PTB for sure.

    I think that this ban can be explained, under .ml admin team insane troll logic, like this: you’re attacking Trump, thus you’re defending Biden (there’s even a “but” there! It invalidates everything that you said). Biden is helping the State of Israel to genocide the Palestinians so you’re implicitly backing up the genocide “lol.” so stop trolling “tnx.”

    And since you seem to be also communist, a few pointers on the instance landscape:

    • dbzer0 is geared towards anarchists, but even so probably your best bet to have decent left-wing discussions.
    • avoid lemmygrad - its admin team partially overlaps with .ml
    • hexbear is 3/4 underage kids or adult-children behaving as such, and they like to dogpile each other (and outsiders) for the weirdest shit.
    • lemmy world is at best a minor version of .ml when it comes to admins doing shit on a whim. And certainly not communist-friendly.

    [Sorry for the uncalled advice, it’s just stuff that I wish that I knew when I left .ml]

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      9·
      3 months ago

      [Sorry for the uncalled advice, it’s just stuff that I wish that I knew when I left .ml]

      All good and I appreciate it! Though to be clear I am not a communist, and don’t see myself becoming one. I’m not sure what label to apply to myself these days.

      • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
        5·
        3 months ago

        All good and I appreciate it! Though to be clear I am not a communist, and don’t see myself becoming one. I’m not sure what label to apply to myself these days.

        Ah, sorry then. It’s just that some things that you said in the comment (plus in your other comments - got to check profile to say if PTB/YDI/BPR/CLM) lean this way. Nevermind the advice then, but I hope that it’s useful for other lost commies like me.

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          6·
          3 months ago

          It’s just that some things that you said in the comment (plus in your other comments - got to check profile to say if PTB/YDI/BPR/CLM) lean

          Yeah, I find myself in a sort of uncanny valley politically/socially. I broadly agree with most folks who call themselves progressive or leftist (in a US context), but have a hard time slotting myself into one category. I think I’m too ignorant about the nuance of some of the different sorts of viewpoints to make the needed distinctions.

          All good in any case!

        • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          That’s where my mind usually goes but then I see two folks from .ml debating the finer points of the two and whether Bernie actually is what he say he is and… and it becomes really tiresome to have to be sure I’m putting all my beliefs and opinions into the right box.

          I don’t mean that in the confrontational or faux-edgy way it may sound. I know (in some cases) what I’m not, but that’s about as far as I tend to take the time to go.