Can I see all the communities I'm banned from on Lemmy somewhere?
These are starting to really stack up with the nutty mods in some of these places and I'd like to keep score and perhaps display them somewhere. I'm wondering if there's a list?
If not, short of crawling every community findable by an account and checking banned status by e.g. attempting to post, is there a way to collate such a list programmatically with e.g. an API or cURL or selenium automation, given the structure of the fediverse?
Right? "I've been banned from enough communities on different topics that I can't keep track! Could it be that I'm an asshat? No, it's definitely the mods..."
I looked at the modlog and while OP seems snarky, sarcastic, and opinionated, their bans seem pretty unnecessary by my standards. The stated reasons seem fairly dubious, more mod finds your opinion disagreeable than any rule-breaking.
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 mean there are some shit mods man. I got banned from a community once because I criticized a New York Post article. Said it was baseless and there was no substance to it. I guess the guy was mad that I correctly identified the source.
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
reddit and lemmy are nearly homogenous in terms of humor and politics and personality. there's a way to speak so that your comments aren't misunderstood and it often means prefacing what you're about to say with some context that wouldn't otherwise be needed, or ending with /s or something like that. if you've been here long enough you forget how weird this is
Bootlicker will always side with authority by default, it is a human condition and one of the mean reasons why we are getting fucked. The harder normie bootlicks, the harder daddy owner fucks us. It starts with basic shit like this but goes all the way up.
I think some Fediverse mods are more extreme and biased than their equivalent on Reddit.
For example, criticizing the anti-men stance (as in: nothing to do with feminism) promoted by jlai.lu admins for example got me my ban. My first ever ban despite being very active on Reddit for 10 years prior to migrating to Lemmy.
Smaller communities do feel like an echo chamber as a consequence.
From reading their posts, op is either sarcastic to a degree that does not play well on the Internet, or continually dip their toes into communities with highly charged opinions and then acts surprised when their peers take offense.
The transmedicalism accusation is borderline spurious and I think the accusations is extreme given what I read (they're more taking note of the difference between fashion expression and gender. 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
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.
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
The problem is that a gender & sexuality based on a spectrum makes it extremely hard to define things, which is something humans just naturally do and why we ended up with the binary way of it. But if we have a spectrum ranging from masculine to feminine, then we suddenly have not just trans people, but also those who may identify & look like the opposite gender, but don't want to fully transition (i.e. keep their birth sex). You basically have anything in between the two binary categories now, and that is consequently muddy on top of being new and foreign for most people and even often within trans communities. Doesn't help that research on those topics is also still fairly early and definitions can change rather quickly at times, making it hard to keep up with it.
OP might be a classic internet troll. Those like to stir up arguments and some small drama. They're not necessarily sarcastic or surprised or anything. That's just a means to get people agitated and react a certain way.
Out of curiosity, I looked at what I was banned from: some of them are communities I've never even interacted with like !tesseract@dubvee.org? What is that even?
And slrpnk has an automated bot now that bans and unbans people. Again, from a community I don't even recognize (pleasant politics? huh?).
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.
Damn, I understand why this person was banned, looking at the removed comments. I mean, they're not bad enough that I would remove them but I can understand why someone else would and if those are the comments that were only removed, the bans were probably for other comments (I'm just assuming banning someone would remove their comments from that community too). The comment about how gender is bullshit sounded based at first but then they said that it doesn't exist at all (which it obviously does, even if it's just a societal construct) and that gender dysphoria didn't have anything to do with gender. That's a comment I highly disagree with but IMO that's not so bad that I would remove it. But the comment about how twitch streamers were just leeching of of the youth and how V-Tubers were just incel bait and that they should be banned just like sex work is really hateful. Entertainment is also valuable in society and using a virtual avatar instead of a face cam doesn't suddenly make it sexual in any way.
Anyway, pretty long comment but I kinda felt like sharing my opinion on this.
I don't want to go off-topic but since you made a character judgement i'd like the chance to respond, I was really just drawing a line between trans people with gender dysphoria who have medical needs that I think political campaigns should focus on versus those folks without.
I have nothing against anyone either way, people are free to dress or ID however they wish, no sweat off my back, I just don't want suffering I went through to happen to others when it's truly needless and I think the massaging could be clearer with regards to that.
Yeah? Which ones am I not? Lol I'm not a shitposter wtf?
I'm only banned from communities to do with queerness, socialism, Europe, news, ADHD and politics. I'm a trans woman from Europe who has ADHD, is a socialist (Anarchist) with an interest in news and politics.
My hobbies also include hacking, planes (simming primarily the A320 and general aviation interest), milsims, trains, AI, philosophy, social sciences, history, paleontology (especially the Cambrian and Devonian), music production (DAWs, plugins, synths, etc.), video making (esp. editing), programming, space (orbital mechanics/astrodynamics and astronomy), Unix/Linux/BSD, SelfHosted/homelab stuff, gaming (inc. the culture), macroeconomics, electronics (as in, breadboard prototyping, IoT with pi/arduino, embedded hacking and physics of electricity), flashlights, manga, TV shows (just finished Generation Kill), Star Trek, drugs (psychs mostly), retro computing (C64 and Amiga) and many more I can't recall rn and I seek out and subscribe to communities on Lemmy for all of them, plus those with differing opinions politically e.g. neoliberal/neocon, socdem, tankies etc.
Is that really so odd? It's pretty normal to me. I used Reddit in the same way.
I just don't have insane hivemind opinions, but relatively reasonable ones and voicing any of that (Ukraine right to self-defense, gender dysphoria is a medical disorder treated by transition - not a choice, AI can be useful etc etc.) seems to be a big no-no on some parts of Lemmy.
Anyway this is all extremely off-topic at this point so I'll probs delete this thread later but I'm genuinely curious why you'd think I'm a shitposter.
That said a lot of these bans you received seem more than justified, only the Hexbear ones I would really chalk up to nutty mods, but if you disagree I'd suggest posting about it on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com as this isn't the place to discuss mod abuse, that is.
Mine are mostly for being a trans person the wrong way. People do nooot like my brand / combo of gender apathy but also having been surgically confirmed with some androgynizing removals. I get called transphobic a LOT just by saying I don't personally get dysphoria related to pronouns. I understand that others do. I understand that for many the whole passing one way or the other thing is a matter of safety. But I'm good being called whatever personally idc. Straight to jail. I've learned to just stay away from trans communities they're pretty much all just assholes.
These clowns are literally funneling people to other communities due to "wrong" think. That's fine blocking works both ways. I can take my business else where and that's the beauty of fediverse.
I did not want to even block lemmy.ml but they forced my hand. I expected server ban from lemmy.world but i guess tankies are more of an egg shell than neo lib normie core. News and politics subs are a cesspool tho. lemmy.world front page is a good reminder how to lose an election and they learned nothing.