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Since I was curious I checked the actual amount of upvotes and downvotes of my post on mbin. It got 56 upvotes and 66 downvotes according to them since I was curious. Seems I hurt their little ego when I mentioned blocking their instance.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

goes into a ML space

Criticizes ML

Gets banned

Here's how you bitch about their modding.

"They instance wide banned me for saying a federal democratic republic is, by definition, a form of democracy. I'm not surprised by that, MLs gonna ML, but I am kind of annoyed it wasn't for me calling Stalin a red fascist who killed the Revolution."

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

I haven't used lemmy up until this point. They pose as a general purpose instance and are the 2nd largest lemmy instance at that. I knew the lemmy devs had their preferences but I didn't know they would let it effect their moderating so strongly.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

It happens to everyone and is probably going to be the downfall of lemmy

hilarious thing is that they think banning a user is a win. Yeah you guys sure dunked on that random guy by banning him

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It will definetly hinder its growth. I hope the ml instance just gets mostly irrelevant when instances that allow for more free speech can grow accordingly. They might create a stronger cesspool of likemineded tankies but it hurts the overall platform

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