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.
Breitbart isnāt just āa conservative source,ā itās far right propaganda disguised as news.
I think some of their opinions are interesting, and itās not like theyāre posting illegal content. When you see itās Breitbart, you already know what youāre in for. There are plenty of left-leaning propaganda sites disguised as news too. Itās not unique to the right.
What really frustrates me is the lack of popular socialist news outlets. I wish we had more of them, so I post what I can from the few that exist.
Iām not mad that Breitbart is popular, Iām mad that socialist sites arenāt just as popular or well-funded. Thatās the real issue for me.