Due to the recent ban of a wolfballs.com-user for “Bigotry and racism on his main account on Wolfball.” it is requested that
Lemmy.ml updates the Code of Conduct to reflect actual moderation. Please consider adding that
Lemmy.ml will ban users for comments made with other accounts on other instances.
I think that one of the main goals of lemmy is getting people out of the claws of corporate, cia social media like reddit.
The less people on reddit, the weaker the usa mind control apparatus gets.
However, for this to work, there need to be instances for those kinds of people that are on reddit.
Most of them won’t know how federation works and will land on lemmy.ml. If they can’t be sent to an instance that fits them, they would probably go back to reddit, or something similar, which would go against that goal.
That said, the ban reason makes total sense.
The way I see it, if someone doesn’t “fit into” lemmy.ml, you can always say, “hey, go to join-lemmy.org and find an instance better suited to you or start your own” And they will find wolfballs. It’s right there on that site, it’s not hidden or anything.
But lemmy.ml itself is an instance that claims leftism and a ban on bigotry. And plugging wolfballs in the comments violates that. Like, if I made a racist blog about phrenology and then posted it in the lemmy.ml comments and said it was a super cool and inviting safe space for everyone…do I get banned? I never put the phrenology stuff in the lemmy.ml comments, so according to the line of thinking of the ban reversal, I would be cool to keep advertising away. And what it leads to is, you can say whatever rule violating stuff you want as long as you link to it in the comments and don’t type it in directly
You don’t even have to look at it from a bash the fash perspective (though you should). Just looking at it from a purely debatebro “follow the rules” perspective, that account should be banned.
That seems like a good solution.
Poor chance when libs swarm it and bring the mind control apparatus with them.