Context: https://lemmy.world/comment/14613536 Screenshotted context just in case:
A user claims that the killing in Palestine stopped under Biden now. I point out that biden had full-throatedly supported the genocide for over a year. A mod deletes my post and says that biden didn’t “state” (keyword here) full-throated support for genocide.
I counter by saying I consider sending billions in support of genocide counts as full-throated support for genocide. I also point out that I didn’t say Biden stated his support for genocide and that he didn’t need to outright state it because actions speak louder than words.
I receive a temp ban for that counter and the mod adds a response where they claim the weapons were “provided for defense from Iran, full stop.” which sounds to me like actual misinformation because how the hell does bombing hospitals in Gaza defend Israel from Iran? I’m not bothered by their stupid opinion, but I am bothered that they are enforcing it through moderation.
I ran into a similar moderation problem on the Political Memes community also on .world, but I didn’t bother making a post here for that because that’s just a dumb meme community and I was better off just blocking it, but now this is concerning a world news community and it’s awful to see something like this happening in a community that’s supposed to keep people aware of the news.
But hey, maybe I’m wrong and it actually is misinformation to say it’s full-throated support of genocide to send billions in weapons to a country using those weapons to commit genocide. Please let me know what you think!
It would really be nice to see [email protected] and [email protected] consolidate to offer an alternative, but the discussion never concluded: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/19642782
Ping @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
[email protected] explicitly doesn’t moderate based on personal opinions as long as they are within community and instance rules.
I can say that the comments in the body post screenshot wouldn’t have been removed on [email protected]. You can check our modlog for how we operate https://m.lemmy.zip/modlog?community=14086
Likewise we operate on different ethos. Removing content for “calls to violence” isn’t something I can ethically condone. Violence is how nearly every civil liberty and human right has been won from the state.
I prefer minimal moderation based on the spirit of the rules rather than rules lawyering where clever people try to abuse them because “it doesn’t technically say X” to get around being arseholes.
So, is there any chance to consolidate [email protected] and [email protected], or not?
From an outside perspective it just seems strange to have two apparently compatible communities competing with each other at similar levels of monthly activity (4.3k vs 4k) while they could be merged into one more active community
I wouldn’t be opposed if they wanted to, but I couldn’t see myself moving to .zip if the instance bans such speech.
From the comment above
I had a quick look at the modlog, seems okay? https://lemmy.zip/modlog/14086
Would you accept another mod? I know that wasn’t the case when the community was still 2.8k monthly active users, but it’s now 3.9k4
I was open then and I’m open now. I received 0 offers so far.
https://lemmy.zip/post/14792189/15423913
@[email protected]
@[email protected] sent me a DM either on Matrix or via Lemmy if you are interested.