Posted this in Fediverse Memes but got deleted for some reason, can’t imagine why.
Posted this in Fediverse Memes but got deleted for some reason, can’t imagine why
Is it because you feel slighted by one mod from that instance so now you’re accusing an entire instance of supporting genocide?
Cuz that would be my guess…
dbzer0 has an issue with a policy that most mods on feddit.org agree on. Basically, whether it’s allowed to say things like “Death to Israel” (which German law considers hatespeech); people who don’t allow that are nazis and zionists in their view.
As we all know, Germans must comply with the law. Certainly couldn’t ever have laws that go wrong. Just comply in advance and don’t ask questions.
I mean, if you’re trying to avoid legal prosecution shutting down your instance, it’s pretty reasonable to, you know, obey the laws of the country you live in.
Obey all laws, be a good German and comply. Do not ask questions about it, just follow your orders.
The fuck are you on about? We’re heavily critical of laws, capitalism, censorship and all. We’re critical of imperialism in all forms too, whether Russian, Chinese, US or Israeli. We know the reasons, and we’re not happy about it. Our meme community (ich_iel, originally a German twin of me_irl) is left-leaning enough that its sister community (wir_iel, literally we_irl) for communist memes is more of a subset than an actually separate community.
The instance owners just don’t wanna be held criminally liable for shit people post on it, so they take down comments that call for the death of Israel or otherwise become offensive beyond reasonable doubt. They’re volunteers providing a platform for discussion, information and memes.
What would you have the admins / mods do instead?
Obey your laws, report any thought crime the German government doesn’t like. Follow your orders like a good worker, need ask questions.
It’s not one mod, it’s an entire admin team in agreement to remove all people against an actively funded genocide.
Apparently I’ve had their instance blocked for a while personally but, I went and looked at their front page and this is their top post on local:
https://feddit.org/post/25749999?scrollToComments=true
I honestly can’t remember why I blocked their instance, but if they’re rabidly pro-Israel across the full instance, they’re not doing a very good job of enforcing it if their top thread is any example.
Seems they’d have deleted all the comments talking about Epstein’s connection to Israel and Israel’s history of protecting pedophiles
They delete anything questioning Israel’s geopolitics. They’re rabidly pro-Isreal “because the law says I have to support genocide”. And an admin is currently commiting a harassment campaign to a user who called them out and started the discussion. Same admin has done nothing but engage in bait to get banned in communities and then claim he did nothing wrong.
That’s enough to tell me he’s bad faith. It’s why he doesn’t do anything but this. In English at least.
They delete anything questioning Israel’s geopolitics
The clearly don’t…
As evident by that comment thread I just linked…
Like, this is the opposite of how it’s supposed to work. One person makes claims, the other refutes with evidence
I’m providing evidence, and your refuting it with claims the already provided evidence disproves?
That’s enough to tell me he’s bad faith.
Maybe the admin is a douche, that would explain why I blocked the instance…
But that’s not the same as saying:
They delete anything questioning Israel’s geopolitics
Specifics matter
Just look at anytime feddit is questioned on why they support a genocidal state without question. They then ban you for it and shame you. If one admin is doing it for weeks without issue, the entire instance likes it.
“But we have to comply with the law that says we must support genocide!”
Buddy…
I’m not saying they never do it.
I’m saying the opposite isn’t true either, their top post is literally filled with people shit talking Israel.
Obviously I had some sort of problem with it, because I’ve blocked their whole instance already. Just like I’m doing here as soon as I hit submit.
You don’t have to interact with everything online. If an admin is a piece of shit, just stop going to the small insignificant corner of the Internet where they have control. It’s literally that easy.
Sorry, I’m just having a bad week. Work is weirdly stressful lately. I apologize.
And when they post about users and those users now have harassment campaigns and alts made in their name, it’s hard to ignore it.
I love how incredibly childish bdzero is about their defederation (is it? They called it something else) from feddit.
I especially love how they brought numerous removed posts that had people being complete fuck heads, and said it was because of zionism as the justification.
Dunno where are you getting your news from but they have been quite decent about it considering it’s defederation and thus basically the last measure to take, so it was only proposed as an addendum to a vote on blocking. If I got a sniff of any sort of Nazi or Zionism sympathies in my server, I’d be far more draconian about it.