as the ideal situation is that everyone can be nice and not nasty when someone has a different opinion

Which is how I THOUGHT Lemmy would be when I signed up. It’s definitely not that way. I still love Lemmy, but oy, the user base here do not like opinions that go against the norm/majority. They seek revenge. Follow you around to downvote comments, etc. It’s crazy.

Totally agree! That’s how things should be. Admins, please make this change.

UniversalMonk has earned some of the negative response he’s getting.

I just post the articles that get the downvotes. I don’t write them. :)

Because as many in the tech thread said, it could be for nothing. There are no specific posts that show me even posting to that sub. So it’s not proof of anything other than some person in some instance (where there is no proof that I even posted) decide that they would ban me. And my post history also shows ZERO evidence that I ever posted there.

The tech thread answers and the no stupid questions answers: https://lemmy.world/post/19485386 https://lemmy.world/post/19485485

And really hard to take your seriously. Besides just being banned from World news for your comments. You’ve just had some comments here, that were directed towards me, removed for civility.

Ahh, ok. Thank you! I was figuring it couldn’t be too serious since i had never even knew about it until this random user starting posting screenshots of it and calling me toxic. lmao

This community is awesome and helpful. Thank you!

Thank you. I was just curious because the guy is really laying into me and laughing about it, but other than his screenshot of an instance I have never heard of, he has no posts to show me that would have gotten me banned. lol

But hey, probably already spent too much time. I think he may have been behind the whole thing. He’s been following me on Lemmy a few days now. Thank you! You guy are awesome!

So what would I have done that resulted in a permaban if I’ve never even heard of that instance? I have only ever posted here on Lemmy.world.

The user who posted it is trying to make some point that I am an obvious troll and says that I got perma banned for “toxic” behavior and then posted that screenshot. And I couldn’t really reply, because I had no idea what any of it meant! I asked him to post shots of any comments on that instance that would have resulted in a permaban, but he declined.

And thank you for the Kbin.earth invite! I have heard others mention it as well, so I will definitely look into it!

Thank you! This is great information!

Well I didn’t join Lemmy just to do Socialist stuff. I just happen to be a socialist, and I joined Lemmy. What instance to you recommend?

hahaha, wow, I had no idea. Ick.

Lemmy is full of communists/socialists

Socialist here! Lemmy is much more welcoming than Reddit.

if you’re a Stalinist, you have at least three solid options.

And what options are those?

You own your data, you can self-host your own Lemmy instance and still connect to other Lemmy instances (Like what I do)

Can ya point to a series of instructions that show one how to do that? I mean, I’ll search on my own as well, but since you seem well versed, I thought you may have some unique insight on a really good set of instructions.

Loony power tripping moderators can only ban you from their little bit rather than from the whole site.

Amen!

I’ve probably had more heavy downvotes or arguments on Lemmy in 9 months than I had on Reddit in over 15 years.

Same. I mean, I still love and prefer Lemmy, but I’ve had DM’s of people saying that they were gonna follow me around on Lemmy “just to keep an eye on” me because I disagreed with what they said. lmao

My biggest piece of advice is to be the content you want to see.

Totally agree with this. BUT just know that for some Lemmy’s, they get suspicious pretty quick.

My account is less than a month old. I found a vast hole of the kind of content I want to see, so I started posting a lot. Starting communities, replying to replies on my posts, etc.

And pretty much every day I get called variations of being a troll, spammer, trumper and/or russian asset.

Doesn’t keep me from posting, and I think it’s hilarious. But just a heads up to anyone reading. Tho this thread is old so maybe no one will. But I found this thread just now, so… lol

Late to this thread, but dammit, well said, friend. Well said.

I prefer Lemmy, even tho it can be a little too reddit-like. But the mods do seem to be a bit less ban-happy, so that’s a good thing.

But since I vote for third parties, I get pretty much the same hateful comments I got when I was on Reddit. But hey, at least I’m not banned! :)

So as someone else said, more assholes here, but less hivemind.

i experience this constantly on lemmy.

Me too!