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  • It’s something that is sporadically done, by some people based on the phase of the moon or what they feel like; but it’s tolerated by the other mods.

    One does not see it much unless it happens to oneself or it’s read about elsewhere. However it certainly has an effect and perhaps is one of the reasons there are cycles of low engagement ( or at least lower than normal). Often people like me who have issues with it just quietly go elsewhere, which I more or less done.

    But once I moved away, choosing a non political server as my new home, I was exposed to all the communities world blocks, and it was then I realized I had been censored


  • If you call out genocide denialism you get banned.

    Which is the reason I stopped participating in some of world’s news and political communities, but because of a different genocide.

    But I certainly did not go running to a community that promoted denial of other crimes. Instead I use the power of lemmy to pick and chose healthy communities.

    Each instance has communities which are toxic.



  • It’s not wall to wall tankees , this is only a minority. Which for the non tanker, can be avoided and ignored.

    I was talking more of a general problem by deciding what I wanted to censor myself rather than letting others do it for me. Baby and bath water analogy and all that.

    And this extends way beyond tankees and piracy.

    And since people are talking about hexbear, it does have the best Syrian news coverage


  • I’m sort of new to Lemmy, having only been here a few months, and I started my first account here in world, the one I am commenting with.

    What I found is that world has many cool and fun and interesting communities, but for news ( world or USA centered) is really centralist USA based. World has cut off access to many other cool and interesting communities that may have different viewpoints here and there.

    I think the few experiences by trolls here from other communities is more of a walled garden thing, and if world has a more inclusive mix this would solve a lot of issues .

    Me migrating to another instance still allows me to participate here in world, and I simply ignore what I don’t like here and elsewhere.

    Honestly, world has as many issues with gatekeeping and power hungry mods as instances and the only way to get the full lemmy experience is to pick and chose what fits best with oneself