In addition to this not really being a showerthought, this post is not really a shitpost either
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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I am the mod that removed your post. I am always happy to talk about it. I do make mistakes and change my mind at times.
Yeah its a gray rule, no doubt about it, but the alternative is the comm flooded with everyone's political hot take, which quickly drowns out lots of great posts.
I guess that rule is to prevent people from abusing that community for posting their hot takes. It's a shame it was used against you, after all your take is luke warm at best...
Doesn't really seem like a shower thought tbh. Seems like soapboxing
It's not even that hot of a take. In a twist of irony, an llm could have written this post.
Well, you decided to post politics into a non-politics community, instead of a politics one. And now moderation drama into a shitpost community instead of a moderation drama one...
So the use of language is politcal now, apparently. Got it.
I guess the next move is to make all the tech bros glasses rose-coloured.
This would be better fitted for !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com but I'll save you a little time: YDI
Thank you very much!
I wasn’t aware that this was such a big issue in the Fediverse that there are already dedicated communities discussing it.
Until now, I’d assumed the matter was somewhat settled since the larger communities on .ml now have an equivalent elsewhere now. I’ve come across this problem several times elsewhere as well (the “no politics” rule, even though the post wasn’t political in any sense), but I guess I’m just completely out of the loop.
So it’s probably more a case of it being a different overlord (the U.S. instead of Russia).
I can only conclude from this that even platforms like Lemmy on the the Fediverse are controlled by billionaires. That might sound a bit like a conspiracy theory, but given their unscrupulousness, it seems all too likely to me.
Either way: for me, the matter is clear—you can’t express your opinion here either.
It’s disillusioning, but at least now I know how I need to conduct myself here.
you can’t express your opinion here
I've had this account for nearly a year and a half, and I've never had mod action taken against me. On my previous account, I only ever had 2 mod actions. I'm highly political and post regularly. My secret is that I pay attention to every community I'm looking at, and follow their rules. As an example, I'm gender fluid but generally identify with masc identities, so I never post or comment in !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone. Following community rules is easy. Just don't do those things. Whether you want it to be or not, gen-AI is absolutely a political topic right now, so it's not really welcome in !showerthoughts@lemmy.world.
I've been banned from like 10 different communities once because I downvoted a post I didn't like. The same mod just decided to ban me from everything they had the ability to.
Honestly, if you aren't getting banned by Fascist or Tankies you are doing it wrong.
I think it's more that I curate my feed to avoid them in the first place. I'll read their rules, judge for myself, and decide if I want to interact with it. I report fascist shit and shut it down when I see it. I've never been banned for it. That's a success in my judgement of the spaces I choose to participate in.
Fair
Personally, I stay away from the womens stuff community because it is so incredibly stupid to constantly whine about people coming in and commenting when you're making a place that literally broadcasts your posts and comments in a way that invites others to come and comment. It's no different than having a conversation on a busy street using bullhorns and then complaining about people joining in.
When some form of the fediverse can properly do closed communities with a whitelist, then I'll happily head there.
GMAFB. There are PLENTY of communities where that topic can be discussed, but you chose one not meant for what is blatantly a political topic and are whining "censorship" when you naturally got rebuked. It's very MAGAt-like behavior.
I actually saw that post on my feed, and was interested in reading it but it had been deleted by the time I got to it. Since it was still showing in my feed, I used that to get to your profile in hopes you'd re-posted it somewhere more appropriate, but instead you seem to have decided to play victim.
I'm honestly disappointed because I skimmed some of your posts & comments while I was there and liked what I saw. Hopefully this is just an aberration.
Well, I simply didn't have the motivation anymore, so I didn't take the time to look for a community where this post might not have been removed.
However, since I’ve often found myself starting to read a post and leaving a comment on it, only to discover that the post had been removed because of this arbitrary "no politics" rule, I thought I’d use this admittedly salty post to point out what kinds of posts are currently being removed in one of the largest Lemmy communities.
I think it’s important for people to be aware that a community whose name suggests it’s a place to share your thoughts with others is, in fact, a community where a kind of "thought police" decides—based on their own sensitivities—what people get to see and what they don’t. That’s exactly what this "no politics" rule amounts to, because any topic can be interpreted as political if you don’t have a clear definition of what "political" actually means.
I don't understand how so many people can think it's a good idea to give moderators a rule that allows them to remove posts at will. It's like banning posts about mathematics in a physics community—it's simply absurd.
It is a place to share your shower thoughts. You'd do better, I think, for trying to get a sense of what a community's vibe is before participating.
And you're not being silenced. Myself and plenty of other people refer to AI as devil technology built by demons, vampires, pedophiles, and republicans—but I repeat myself—on the daily. If I can evangelize about how AI is a cancer that needs to be cut out, then you can, too; you can do it in appropriate places.
Things as simple as A* pathfinding algorithms used for video game characters or simple if/else chains used to program tic/tac/toe games have been called AI for decades.
LLMs *are" a form of machine learning and artificial intelligence regardless of how shit they are
Edit: to make this more relevant to this post specifically, the OP post is clearly politically motivated whether or not it's righteous
Whether or not the rule is fair might be debatable, but in the end, the mods have the final word and they decided that you violated this rule, and then acted accordingly. Either you try to get your ban reversed by contacting them, or you start your own community where the rules are more to your liking. Or you can also move on to other things and let this issue become a non-issue.
Seems reasonable to me. I am very much against the concentration of capital. But that is a major part of the socialist democrats platform. So yeah, your post was clearly political. The lemmy model is that mods choose what they want in a community. And since they are unpaid, that seems right. You want to say whatever you want, make your own.
You should probly migrate off .world, for starters, and maybe consider contributing to another version of the community that doesn't have rules you don't like, e.g., !showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works
Thanks for the heads-up! I guess that's what I'll do. It's a shame that the largest communities, of all places, are censoring themselves like this.
The fact you are bothered by people calling the got new thing AI is weird. We have been calling a lot of hot new things in tech ai.
What grinds my gears is the less new thing no longer being called ai when it still is ai.
Ai is more than your sci-fi wifu.
You could have posted this comment on my post if it hadn't been removed by the mods at ShowerThoughts because it was apparently too political—at least according to arbitrary Rule 3, which always comes into play whenever something is posted that the mods don't like, or maybe even those who send them a little money... I have no idea how things work there, but in any case, there’s no way to have a debate on this issue.
AI is what ever a capitalist says it is.
You were making a post to a .world community, what did you expect?
i wish there was a way to 'mute' instances and users which do not respect freedom of speech. If you shut down good faith speech from others, then i literally don't care about anything else you have to say
Don't worry, the bots will keep you well entertained. You don't need to post anything at all; you can simply leave your comments and receive automated replies that fully take your feelings into account.
yeah what is this, reddit?
It can't be, I was banned for life twice on Reddit. They won't let me back anymore. I refused to limit my speech.
Thinking about politics in the shower is illegal. Mentioning money is politics. Welcome back to reddit.
There's a time & place for everything. As an obviously over the top, but hard to argue example: I wouldn't go into a classroom of seven year-olds & start discussing pornography. Showerthoughts has always been known to be meant for light-hearted topics - it's even mentioned in the community description, while political topics are explicitly against the rules. It's not censorship to say something is inappropriate in certain contexts or situations - only if you're prevented from saying it in situations where it's perfectly apropos.
That place is reddit as fuck. Steer clear.