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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


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Just recently, I got banned from Lemmy.ml because they thought I was "trolling" using an LLM. Let me clarify to any Lemmy.ml mods reading this that I'm not using an LLM for my comments. I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.

Sometimes I post so much so fast that I get a "too many requests" error before I get to post the next comment - in these cases, that's my cue to cool down for a bit, and then post my comments from my "queue" (I leave the comments unposted until I post them) after a certain period of time.

I just submitted a message like this on the Lemmy Matrix chat (through Cinny - pretty good software) as my ban appeal- I then got a reply saying "mods DON'T hang out here - just message them from the sidebar" which I will do after posting this.

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[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I am a human being who actually has autism which is why I type like this.

I unfortunately think we are entering an age of systems that are extremely hostile to any kind of neurodivergence, mostly because of layers and layers of bullshit automated categorization schemes based on measurable superficial differences that capture nothing deeper or essential about people.

Phrenology by another name dressed up in techbro nonsense, it is dangerous as fuck.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ultimately they might be hostile towards all humans, not just the neurodivergent ones... In my opinion, tech is getting more and more difficult unless you 99% conform to the masses. I mean try to book a ticket, get an appointment, do paperwork or whatever needs apps these days if you're not using standard Google or Apple products. Or non-mainstream things like evade surveillance capitalism. All of that is annoying and requires me to jump through several hoops. Also business processes and everything gets more streamlined, automated... they do most things fairly well and efficiently. Just God beware you're in the 0.5% when things go properly wrong, and it's almost impossible to get ahold of a human with authorization to help with these rare, specific problems.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 month ago

hostile towards all humans, not just the neurodivergent ones

The thing is neurodivergent people aren't different from "neurotypical" people, they experienced heightened or muted versions of the exact same responses other people do. Anything that is hostile to neurodivergent people is hostile to everyone, and just being noticed by the neurodivergent people first

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

All of that is annoying and requires me to jump through several hoops.

Yes, that is true.

The important thing is that it is possible to use non surveillance capitalism software and services. The trade-off will always be that it is more work. This is because companies that harvest your information to sell can afford to spend a lot of money creating products that do everything for you.

They essentially say:

Don't worry about buying media and managing it on your own hardware, it's too hard to watch a youtube video and spend a few hours on something you enjoy... just install YouTube, Netflix or Spotify on your iPhone.

For the low, low price of your eternal technical dependency and loss of privacy we will manage your music and movie collection for you. Also, since there's nothing you can do about it now that you've been lulled into a state of technical incompetence, there will be a ~~$5~~ ~~$8~~ ~~$9.99~~ ~~$12~~ ~~$18~~ $19.99 subscription fee, HD sold separately.

The hoops thing is pretty bad too

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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I think we should give that a phrenology-type name - maybe neuroprofology, perhaps?

Oh and thank you for editing the comment (and also rephrasing it as well)!

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Either that or "cognitive behavioral phrenology"

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

Hah, I like that one.

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Something like that

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It was because you spam the same vapid questions repeatedly.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They're even doing it in this thread. The almost exact behavior they were saying they totally weren't doing

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[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its .ml i wouldn't worry about it too much, sure there are many decent people there, but there are some people there with shit takes

[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Is it because it's a primarily Marxist-Leninist hub? - and this is coming from someone who supports socialism, and is looking to study a bit more on that

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From what I've experienced is that anything that is critical of russia/china is against the narrative. I'm a socialist too, but because I am critical of russia/china, I get blocked and banned when I make comments. I am also critical of the USA, Canada, europe, etc but i still get called a shit lib lol.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago (18 children)

Well you're in the right instance for thaf. This is your chance to check out anarchism 😅

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

It seems that the kind of discussion OP wants would be well aligned with the spirit of !actualsocialism101@lemmy.dbzer0.com. However, the community unfortunately seems to be inactive.

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[–] masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I was banned from movies@hexbear.net - a place I didn't even know existed until I got banned from it.

But hey... tankies gonna tank.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

https://hexbear.net/post/4334210/5846827

You made a comment there a year ago, and were subsequently site banned and therefore also banned from all comma you had interacted in.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Banned for calling out obvious copaganda? Huh?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I'm sure there's a good reason they didn't want to document the banning of masquenox. Totally a good reason. They just don't want to.

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[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Saying "great, more copaganda" on a post about a TV show called "FBI: CIA" broke that rule? How? What a joke. They dodged a bullet.

[–] Edie@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

No. The comment would have been removed if it did. The 5 comments removed 23 days ago with reason "rule 8" might have gotten them banned, and/or comments in the flippanarchy and anarchism posts are the reason (although, if that is the reason then I think offending comments should have been removed, so it is documented)

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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

Now according to the person representing Hexbear, you are banned there for comments made off community and off instance.

But if you did that to them, Hexbear would flip out.

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

Gotta love how they ban you for no reason but you call out their users and they are innocent.

Edit: oh one comment they liked 1 year ago, wow they totally didn't do that because you're on db0 and whine about us.

Edit: notice how they didn't find it weird how they banned you after nothing for a year. I'm sure that's in good faith!

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

YDI for constantly trolling and I would have banned you sooner if it was up to me.

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In its original usage, 'Death to America' means 'end the power of America'. that is to say, 'death to U.S. domination and government policy,' not 'kill Americans.' It’s anti-imperial language, and if that continued under a 'socialist' president I would continue to say it.

Death to America.

[–] unfreeradical@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (32 children)

I agree with the essence of your objections, but being misguided or misinformed is not in itself trolling, especially if the opportunity remains open for discussion and education.

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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yeah that's kind of bullshit, sorry. Seems like you just can't handle someone with a different opinion. Maybe you shouldn't be a mod if you're this shaken up by modest disagreement.

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