Hi all, thank you for reading my post. modlod link

In the 196 sub an OP was asking for advice on how to change their friends opinions which they disapprove of, because they were trying to warn them off of ā€˜the tankie triadā€™ and their friend didnā€™t have any issues with what they were seeing and was in fact subscribed to a number of instance already.

Clocks got banned first after suggesting that the OP try to be a genuine friend and try to find some common cause in real life rather than alienating people over abstract geopolitical factionalism:

> The original post feels like bait, but here is an authentic response. ā€” Maybe genuinely be their friend instead of alienating them based on political flavoring. Perhaps you can be better working together to help others in your locality or communities than squandering over geopolitical matters. Swallow your frustrations, being annoyed is a part of being in a community. You can move on.

I raised the issue that censoring earnest advice as ā€˜tankie apologiaā€™ and preemtively writing off any common cause/ isolating people is no way to win people over either as friends or comrades.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if ā€˜genuinely be their friendā€™ is ā€˜tankie apologiaā€™ to be censored, Iā€™m not sure youā€™re going to be very successful convincing anyone of anything in the real world.

I then got banned for this one, for continuing to find ā€˜the tankie triadā€™ extremely silly:

yeah thatā€™s the context, I was just laughing because:

  1. only Lemmy users with an axe to grind call them that
  2. it sounds really silly, like theyā€™re a nemesis to dr venture.
  3. Iā€™m supposed to be the melodramatic one yet every day I get one-upped šŸ˜”

link

screenshot:

Iā€™m not here to tell them how to run their comm, my position is that this is way more draconian than anything Iā€™ve run into in any of ā€˜the tankie triadā€™. The same groups of people loudly complaining about censorship on ā€˜tankieā€™ run instances donā€™t seem to have a problem enforcing vague/arbitrary vibes based censorship in their spaces.

  • AlDente@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    7Ā·
    3 months ago

    Sure, itā€™s your community, so you ban who you like. You donā€™t need to justify it to me.

    I tried steering the conversation back to my actual point, but it seems like all that was ignored. I thought your rule exchange was funny and incredibly ironic. You might enjoy banning any dissenting opinions, but donā€™t be surprised when that earns you an ā€œauthoritarianā€ label.

      • AlDente@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        7Ā·
        3 months ago

        Absolutely, I donā€™t disagree at all. But by claiming to not tolerate any dissenting opinion, you are not ā€œbanning authoritariansā€; instead, you are becoming the very thing you declared hatred for. I havent seen any evidence that Diva is authoritarian.

        Instead, Iā€™ve seen a mod openly claim that any dissenting opinions would result in a ban; and this would only result in the further developement of an echochamber.