• Dessalines@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Politically oriented moderation is why I think it’s a shame so many popular communities are on .ml

    If there’s a server that doesn’t moderate according to its own political and ethical standards, let me know. Not sure why ML is specifically singled-out here other than the fact that we have the opposite of redditor politics.

    • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl
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      2 months ago

      We’re on (a community on ML) right now, and the incident OP is talking about took place on ML.

      In my experience ML is the biggest server where I notice the political influence on moderation. There are a few bigger servers in terms of accounts and posts, but I rarely notice the influences outside of overtly political communities.

      Maybe servers like .world just aligns better with my own political biases, who knows. I just find myself disagreeing with moderator choices on ML more often, like in the choice of moderation OP mentioned in the opening post.

      It’s your server and I’m grateful you’re taking the time and effort to help moderate it, especially as it’s done next to all of the work you do on the Lemmy project itself. However, I feel like communities that occasionally attract entertaining shitposts just aren’t suitable for servers with values this strong.

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        2 months ago

        That’s fair. Other servers (especially big ones) are doing a lot of moderation as well, but it probably seems less visible (or attracts less attention), because it’s more aligned to reddit’s political biases.

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          2 months ago

          I don’t think the issue with .ml is that it’s doing moderation according to a different viewpoint, it’s that it is so unapologetic about deleting comments that don’t line up with that viewpoint. Most servers have some kind of viewpoint, but if e.g. you or some other .ml person went onto any big server and started talking about Marxism or NATO or US imperialism or etc, I highly doubt that anyone would say “nope we don’t allow that here” and ban you. But .ml does the reverse – straight-up only allowing one side of the debate to exist. I had that experience, literally being disallowed from making certain arguments, which I something I usually only associate with /r/walkaway or other very extreme communities.

          Everyone gathering around to yell at the person with the unpopular opinion is one thing; maintaining a mod enforced explicit one-viewpoint community where only one type of opinion is allowed to exist is very different, and very rare outside of the lemmy.ml / hexbear contingent or else places like Truth Social, and almost nowhere else.