So I posted to [email protected]:

Trump says Russia has shown willingness for peace by not taking over all of Ukraine, calls it ‘pretty big concession’

Seems like a pretty good fit. It was the number 2 post for the day.

However, it was removed for being “Not Onion-y”. What the fuck?

For one, yes, it is onion-y. For two, looking over the posts that are up there now, stuff that is “not onion-y” is more or less the majority of what’s in the posts. The new number two story which replaced the one of mine that was removed was “Can ChatGPT experience joy or suffering? Does Gemini deserve human rights?” our tech columnist asks. “Many A.I. experts I know would say no, not yet, not even close. But I was intrigued.”, for example.

I wouldn’t really care about the unreasonable removal of my article. Sometimes people just do bad moderation. Except:

1. Someone had come into the comments under my “not onion-y” post to do an unusually incompetent attempt at claiming the Ukraine war was all NATO’s fault, and was getting unanimously roasted for it. Almost all of the comments were just laughing at this one guy, reiterating that Russia is in fact at fault in the war, and talking about the problem of Russian propaganda on Lemmy.
2. I have noticed before that almost every single one of the really bafflingly bad lemmy.world moderation decisions is in some way or other in service of propaganda.

Make of all of that what you will.

Edit: Made more concise