Many years ago on reddit, you could get given gold. It gave you paid benefits. My comments earned me literally years worth of gold, and my karma was similarly increasing.

Then I came out as trans. Suddenly the gold stopped and my karma stagnated

That kind of bias is built in to the karma system. It doesn’t just punish shit takes, it also sidelines visible minorities

No. I just thought some browsing all saw this post and decided to give the OP shit for no reason.

I don’t expect people to lose friendships over an issue that is distant from their experiences, no.

I’d welcome push back, but we can’t all prioritise every issue, and I don’t expect people to. As long as they’re not adding to the transphobia or encouraging it, they’re on the correct side of things.

It’s literally a cyberpunk community. You’re the dick here.

I don’t expect active support from everyone, but if there is a chance to support trans issues at no cost to yourself, I would expect people to make that choice.

Because a fully vegan/vego diet is not trivially accessible for me. I rarely prepare meals at home, and eat out/order in a lot, and the effort of moving to a fully vegan/vego diet would be non trivial.

A vegetarian diet is something I would quite happily adopt if it was more readily available, but it’s not trivial, and it’s not a high enough priority issue for me to be able to sustain a non trivial solution over the long term

I’m a runner who cycle commutes to keep my fitness up. I never loved cycling, but I preferred it to the bus. I did over 20,000 kms (12,500 miles) over the years on my road bike, and basically never touched it outside of commuting.

Then I got an ebike. I’ve fallen in love with cycling now and cycle everywhere at the slightest excuse. I’m doing far more mileage, and riding for fun, and utility as well as commuting.

I’m so excited about Cosmic! Bring it on

If you don’t see a how an action from a government committing genocide, that injures or kills hundreds of civilians is a problem, then there is probably little point in having this conversation.

After posting this, I will be blocking NCD from blahaj.zone

Pepe is a red flag. Not enough to ban outright with no other context, but when posted by a user who is posting bigotry elsewhere, it warrants a removal

It is when I’d just removed another post by the same user, conflating palestinians and hamas, blaming palestinians for their own genocide

reason: Violates server rule #7"

lemmy.blahaj.zone doesn’t have a “server rule 7”. The removal that you’re referring to was made by a lemmy.world admin and has nothing to do with blahaj.zone.

Fixed

Your third link now links to the meme that got CDRMITTENS banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone. This meme breaks your own community rules, and conflates Palestinians with Hamas. It’s outright bigotry

The first link isn’t removed and the second link references Pepe. The third link is the same link as your first link

Oh and instead of removing the post that violated your rules,

Anyone that posts bigotry gets instance banned.

I have no idea about NCD. I don’t use it, I have no idea who posts in it, and it doesn’t come in to it. Anyone that posts bigotry gets instance banned, and your most active poster, posted bigotry.

Blahaj zone admin here. There’s quite a bit of confusion and misunderstanding in this thread.

No one is “selectively removing NCD content” or anything close to it.

What happened is that 6 months ago, CDRMITTENS was instance banned from lemmy.blahaj.zone over an anti Palestinian meme they posted. You can see the mod log for that here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/modlog?postId=11419938. This meme conflated Hamas and Palestinians in general, and basically blamed Palestinians for their own genocide. Notably, the post also broke NCD rules 2 and 5, but wasn’t removed by NCD mods.

As a result of CDRMITTENS being instance banned, none of their content reaches lemmy.blahaj.zone anymore. You can see that for yourself here https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/u/CDRMITTENS@sh.itjust.works, which shows that no content from this user has reached blahaj.zone. There was no selective removal or editing of content at play, because none of their content reached blahaj.zone to be able to selectively remove it.

tl;dr - It’s just an instance ban, not selective moderation

Just call it the X social media site

Plasma, but I’ll be moving to cosmic as soon as it enables auto power off of monitors on idle

I’m pretty sure my battery weighs more than that bike :P

Imagine my surprise when “What could Hamas do to end the violence” wasn’t just an innocent question…

Australian/British slang. It’s a disparaging term for Americans

Starts with rhyming slang

American = Yank Yank = Tank Tank = Septic Tank Septic Tank = Seppo

As I said, yes, a lemmy that bans folk like you is a lemmy that is doing something right