this post was submitted on 03 Jan 2026
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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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[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

If you saying their talking points of "read theory" as a question irritates them, that's on them. PTB.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 33 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 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 17 points 4 days ago (6 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 3 days 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

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[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 14 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It was because you spam the same vapid questions repeatedly.

[–] goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days 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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