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Is Lemmy community nice to new users? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 days ago by Cattail@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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New to Lemmy and I quit reddit years ago and I remembered that r/conservatives was hostile to me for voicing my politics certain other subreddit made fun of me if I was wrong. I'm newish to the fediverse. I'm digging mastodon even though I never did Twitter

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[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

For example, saying anything critical of China in a .ml thread will result in a ban.

Just to clarify this point: they mean that mindless reddit style jingoism will get you banned; reasonable criticism is fine.

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's not what I meant at all.

There's plenty of examples of .ml mods banning users for reasonable criticism.

[–] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

There really isn't