So I started a piefed account, mostly for my writing so that dbzer0 (and Lemmy) wouldnāt have to put up with all my weird fiction stories all the time. Plus, I wanted to check out the biggest Piefed space, piefed.social, because Iām excited about some of the new concepts they are bringing to the table.
I created a writing community, a Socialist community, and a Green Party community there today.
Nothing outrageous or controversial. I posted one news article in each of the Socialist and Green Party communities, and a couple to my writing comm.
The Socialist and Writing communities were local only, so they wouldnāt even show up in the larger Fediverse. I only posted in my own communities. No controversy intended, none created.
I just got banned, almost immediately after starting the communities. The reason in the mod log says: āUniversal Monkā.
The admin, @rimu@piefed.social, hasnāt replied to my DM asking why (yet). I guess being me is reason enough. I feel so famous! Or maybe infamous?
Iām still a libertarian socialist tho! Piefed.social and Lemmy aināt gonna change my mind.
Oh, I already know how the votes (down) here are gonna go! But doing my part in adding content to Lemmy anyway; being the change I wanna see. No regrets! :)
EDIT: Iām posting this here, and Iāve repeated it in this thread. Just in case piefed.social banned me on the assumption that Iām āconservativeā because Iāve posted links to conservative news articlesā¦ then, by that same logic, shouldnāt I also be considered socialist and anarchist because I post so much socialist and anarchist content? I actually post way more socialist content than anything else. And there is nothing in my fiction writing that is conservative at all. My entire post history is public, it doesnāt take much effort to see that I post practically anything I find interesting.
And I still donāt see what all the controversy is about. I post just about anything I read that I find interesting. Funny how everyone overlooks the hundreds of posts Iāve made about science, socialism, anarchism, third parties, college, education, math, and more. Iāve started conservative communities, mixed-politics communities, socialist communities, anarchist communities, death cult communities, writing communitiesāyou name it. My other main account is @UniversalMonk@sh.itjust.works.
Now, using the logic a lot of people on Lemmy seem to apply: if Universal Monk is āconservativeā just because Iāve posted links to conservative articlesā¦ then, by that same logic, shouldnāt I also be considered socialist and anarchist because I post so much socialist and anarchist content?
Also, if I were seriously trying to āban evade,ā would I really use my well-known and widely disliked username? Obviously not. I usually get banned right away anyway, as my history shows.
Posting links to news articles from across the political spectrum is not a good enough reason for the chaos my name seems to cause.
Iād love to see someone make a pie chart showing the ratio of my socialist, anarchist, and libertarian posts versus anything remotely conservative. You know why thatās hard? Because Iāve posted so much, and it covers so many topics, because Iām a human being with nuance.
Anyone who actually looks at my posting history would see that I lean libertarian-socialist, just like Iāve always said. The real issue is that Lemmy doesnāt like that Iāve never supported the two-party system. Not before the election or now. I never have, and I never will. I still stand by what Iāve said: Trump getting elected was the Democratsā fault. They dropped the ball, and they deserved to lose. Thatās been my view from the very beginning, and it hasnāt changed.
And if anyone has a problem with me posting a lot, or having more than one account on lemmy, then I invite them to check out:
@Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com
@Blaze@sopuli.xyz
@Blaze@lemmy.zip
@Blaze@feddit.org
@Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com
@Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
I regret nothing and I wonāt change my posting habits. Thanks, friend!
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https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/27847487?scrollToComments=true
Do you still stand by those statements?
You link my alt accounts, but none of them got banned.
I do stand by my statements, that free speech and free thought are being eroded. Hence the reasons Iāve been banned on some instances. Hence the reason for my OP.
I donāt agree with every point in the article (I didnāt write it, nor am I the publisher, I just posted a link to the article), but I agree that extremism on both sides of the aisle are eroding free speech and free thought. Iāve always said that.
The mere fact that you seem to imply that itās ok to ban me because I said that, kinda proves my point.
Because you rarely voice controversial opinions. Being neutral is safe. Having or even posting links to opinions that may not match most of Lemmy, is a really good way to get banned. As this section of this thread is showing.
But I was mostly showing all your alt accounts because people are quick to bring up that I have alt accounts, so I was showing thatās itās not uncommon. And not a bad idea. Different instances are going down all over.