Yeah I think that time has passed, old timer 😔

why censor a swear!!!1!!1!!1!

True :3

And remember piracy isn’t even theft, no matter how much they try to frame it as such 🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️🏴‍☠️

yes <3

We are all rats on this blessed day

I wasn’t available at the time? I can’t be expected to respond instantly to everything. It is nazi apologia, even if that was not intentional. At least in context it seemed like it. I would have written “nazi” if I removed the comments because I thought you were a nazi and would then promptly have banned you.

We considered your comments without the context of who the guy really was. We still found them in poor taste.

Was about a literal nazi propagandist from nazi germany. We did indeed interpret Satans comments as muddying the waters

Was about a nazi propagandist in nazi germany, not a conservative reporter (same thing these days I guess)

Hi!

Here’s the context:
Post

(Not relevant but this post was removed for misinformation as he wasn’t some random journalist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Streicher)

Comments

Your scenario wasn’t terribly relevant to a nazi propagandist being hung after the war, after the holocaust. It came across as trying to paint the idea that nazis were hung as bad. When others brought up death tolls alluding to genocide you likened the idea of killing nazis to the current US government killing reporters.

I had a brief look through your profile after and it’s clear you’re no nazi, but we still found your comments in poor taste.

Yeah… :/ Name a more iconic combo than centrism and nazi apologia

I’m sorry but there are plenty of tankies on lemmy. I don’t frequent .world much, and I assume there aren’t a lot there, but more leftist parts of lemmy unfortunately have a very real problem with tankies.

Yeah that’s fine, I meant whitewashing as in denying that lemmy has a tankie problem. I don’t claim you are a tankie or anything like that.

This community does not allow tankies, platforming tankies, or whitewashing tankies. Lemmy has an actual tankie problem given that the actual devs are tankies and their servers are filled with tankies.

The comments in that post were filled with a lot of defense of authoritarianism and as such it was removed because I am very very tired of tankies who absolutely love worming their way into leftist spaces and talk about how all states are auth and about leftist unity while denying genocides, imperialism, defending oppressing workers rights, and other human rights abuses. Can they please stop posting here. The banner literally says fuck tankies.

Edit: Which is to say I removed it because it was clearly not correct as evidenced by the comments in that post. I could have replied or something but there were a lot of comments to deal with.

they could make it even worse by talking about “feefies”. I’ve had people do that to me in DMs more than once

I’m always concerned with these kinds of systems and how minorities would be treated within them. Plenty of anti trans stuff gets upvoted by non trans people from a number of other instances, both on and off trans instances. Any such system would favor the most popular opinions, disallowing anything else, at least from how I interpret them when they are explained to me.

There’s also the issue that mods would still have to be a thing and they would need to be able to both ban and remove spam and unacceptable content, so how do you make sure these features aren’t also used to just do moderation the old fashioned way?

And how do trusted users work in a federated system? Are users trusted on one server trusted on another? If so that makes things worse for minorities again and allows for abusive brigading. Are users only trusted on their home instance? If so that’s better, but minorities are still at a disadvantage outside of their own instances.

There’s also the issue with scale. Piefed/lemmy isn’t large. What is the threshold to remove something? What happens when there’s few reports on a racist post? How long does it get to stay up before enough time passes for it to accrue enough reports? Any such system would need to be scaled individually and automatically to the activity level of each community, which might be an issue in small comms. There are cases where non-marginalized people struggle to understand when something is marginalizing, so they defend it as free speech. What happens in these cases? Will there be enough minorities to remove it? I doubt it.

I’m sure there is some way to make some form of self-moderation, but it would need to be well thought out.

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