Seriously, Reddit has banned me several times for “breaking rules” but never tells me exactly what I did to deserve the ban, whereas I see that Lemmy will tell you in the modlog what you did.
Seriously, Reddit has banned me several times for “breaking rules” but never tells me exactly what I did to deserve the ban, whereas I see that Lemmy will tell you in the modlog what you did.
Sometimes. Some servers will “rule 1” you and rule one basically amounts to “don’t say things I don’t like.”
And then sometimes you say the Tiflis bank robbery was bad because they blew up innocent people on the street with grenades, and then a guy responds that “it was pretty cool actually,” and then you get banned for saying “well I hope something cool happens to you then” in an attempt to get them to empathize with the victims by putting themselves as the victim instead if the “pretty cool” robbers, despite being the one who in practice is against the murder of innocents, and then you can’t tell if you were banned because the mod couldn’t process the context of the thread or because they were a tankie who agrees murdering innocents is, in fact, pretty cool. I mean, sure I was being rude becauase I’m not usually nice when people say murdering innocents in the process of a bank robbery is “pretty cool,” so, 50/50, but it’s still silly.
And then sometimes you get banned because one person on your server has an argument with one mod on another and the second mod decides to ban your whole instance as a result because he’s totally not butthurt.
It’s a little more transparent, but this place can be just as silly as reddit.