I just got permanently banned from a community for making a single harmless remark on a single post that was right there in the main feed. It’s not a community I’m super active in so it’s not like devastating, but it is annoying

If your precious little community is full of so many delicate sensitive people who can’t even be reminded that another viewpoint even exists, then you should really protect them by defederating and having everyone join your private website

The mod has literally removed like 75% of the comments and banned everyone lol

I don’t know about anyone else, but I don’t have time to read every rule for every community that pops up when I’m in view all

  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    62·
    2 months ago

    We all know it’s the vegan community. I got banned for simply voting on comments.

    Now they’re also spamming posts to fill up everyone’s feeds.

    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      22·
      2 months ago

      It was indeed! The post in question was particularly smarmy and my response was pretty tame in comparison. Why even have a community if you don’t want anyone to have a conversation?

      • EABOD25@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        2 months ago

        It’s tribalism. We’re unfortunately all guilty of it in one way or another and it has become more serious with the increase of social media use

        I like this explanation in particular: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beyond-school-walls/202304/tribalism-in-the-age-of-social-media

        Edit: to add, I am suspecting that I’m still getting brigaded by a group I pissed off last week. It really doesn’t bother me if they are doing that, but there are people that take their internet points more serious than I do so there are definitely people in the fediverse that will do that to you

        • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          If it helps, votes on here do literally nothing outside of the post they’re in. If there’s a lot on one comment, it gets sorted to the bottom and maybe collapsed, but that’s it. If someone is going around downvoting you, they’re just wasting their own time.

    • Fosheze@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      That explains why I’m banned from there. I saw a post from there pop up on all that I actually agreed with and when I tried to comment I learned I was banned.

        • AliceAEnglish
          7·
          2 months ago

          Then that’s a you problem then. You have a solution and are choosing not to use it.

        • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          12·
          2 months ago

          I’m not vegan but I used to actually enjoy their posts. There were some interesting viewpoints and decent conversations before it turned into this weird little echo chamber lol