cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29035971

Posting here for preservation’s sake

Image in removed comment was the attached Palpatine image. Curious to see if the same admin mod would remove these screenshots if I crosspost them to !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com , which they also admin and mod. Would I get a fair trial there or will my dissenting and others’ be silenced?

You can’t say you’re against disinfo if you’re knowing and intentionally promulgating it and abetting its usage. They also didn’t even remove the Reddit watermark.

This is why I don’t assign identities unto myself, because you criticize one action done wrong by leaders of an ideology or movement and bam! you’re shut out of it completely. They’ve lost the aid of an ally and progress is impeded by being shorted a participant trying to correct the course.

  • mke@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    Thank you for acknowledging that. And you may be right about blocking.

    I just think it’s difficult for folks, me included, to merely hide what they consider to be an issue. They’re not comparable, but if I saw a self-proclaimed leftist community sharing anti-union propaganda, I’d rather discuss it. I’m not claiming that’s the healthiest mindset or the correct one, but I don’t think it’s entirely without reason.

    These situations, wherein a group broadcasts an idea to everybody, then silences dissent because it’s “their turf, their rules,” never seemed fair. Shields like “they’re trolling”, “neoliberals”, “bots” and “brigading” intensify the issue—some mod comments read like a mirror of r/conservative. Why does the blame lie solely with one side, when the subject is controversial and sharing it with everyone was also a deliberate choice?

    There was talk of an option, for communities, to self-exclude from “all” feeds. Wonder if such features could be a better solution, here. I’ll refrain from talking AI and ethics in db0 in the future, but I feel like they should do better, themselves.