I hope this is the right place for this post because from my 2-day experience in lemmy.world I see signs of a dystopic online community in which it is not permitted to express anti-zionist opinions. If you think this post would fit better in another forum, would you point it out to me? Unless automod gets to me first?
- I created an account 2 days ago and I posted this article in Not the Onion: U.S. Airdrops Food to Gaza While Arming Israel to Drop Bombs.
It was removed by automod, so I contacted a human mod. The rest is in the screenshot. I decided not to wait for an answer because I had similar issues in Reddit. Mods were removing anti-zionist posts of news articles and had them restored a couple of days later, so they would get less visibility by not showing up on the first page, and it worked. Assuming (of course I cannot be certain at this point) that similar stuff are taking place here, is also alarming.
- Take a look at this post as well: What is @automod doing?
Tbh, I just hope I’m just wrong on all this, and I would really like to have some feedback on this from people that have been around in this instance longer that I have been.
Case #1 - looks like the moderator of that community doesn’t think the headline fits the sub. I don’t get any particular sense that the reason for removal was in any way political.
Case #2 - as the moderator explained, the auto moderator on Lemmy is basically still in beta stage and is still very much a work in progress.
In both cases, it seems you got a fair explanation as to what happened to your posts. I think it’s a bit premature to start making accusations of some kind of political conspiracy about this instance in general.
Just to second this. Feels like a pretty strong overreaction. Maybe you don’t agree with the moderator but their explanation seems very reasonable. They even agree with your stance, just that it’s not the right community for this post.
Also I’d say accusing lemmy.world in general of a pro-Israel bias is pretty far fetched. I see endless posts in support of the Palestinian’s plight every day (and rightly so of course.)
I am absolutely not sure of a bias so far, that’s why I wanted a feedback on this. It definitely reminded me of my reddit experience though. Meaning, for all the anti-zionist articles I had removed, the arguments presented were always irrelevant to their anti-zionist content.
The explanation given was that the title of the article doesn’t fit with the community guidelines. The argument from the moderator was that it doesn’t fit the content of the community, and agreed that it was definitely c/OrphanCrushingMachine levels of upsetting, but not c/NotTheOnion material due to the article title not being Oniony.
Mod: moderates according to community guidelines and is cordial when responding to post removal inquiries
You: “wOw YoU aRe sUcH a ZiOniSt!!!”
I don’t see how it’s Oniony either, but you’re welcome to post it to World News.
That’s the thing though. You don’t find it oniony, I find oniony. In the few hours it was in the forum 140 users found it oniony and 16 not oniony. And The mod has the last word on this by default.
Yup, that’s the job of the mod.
Many people upvote and interact with a post without checking what sub its from. I am guilty of this myself.
This story definitely deserves more attention but its almost the opposite of onion, falls in line with my expectations. Gaslighting governments have been the norm for a while.
the few hours it was in the forum 140 users found it oniony and 16 not oniony.
Based on what, up votes? If so, that’s just not a good measure. People upvote things they agree with, regardless of where they’re posted. Look at communities like “unpopular opinions” - those routinely get downvoted because people disagree with the opinion, which is basically the point of the community. If that’s your measure, then downvotes the mean people think the opinion isn’t unpopular.
Embrace your hope - you are wrong about this.
