I’m not trying to tell them how to think. I’m trying to grow their platform
I think the part you are missing is they only want ml platform growth from users they don’t see as being impolite or bigoted towards the political apparatus of China.
This isn’t in the nature of an “excuse”, it’s an explanation. The fediverse isn’t the old model where a company serves the public.
In terms of responsibility for tech itself, when the reddit exodus to the fediverse began, a number of people saw the Lemmy dev committment to marxist leninism as antithetical to the views they themselves wanted to espouse, and opted for other ActivityPub tech like Miskey, Mastodon, or Kbin instead.
I assure you I am not bigoted towards China. I have family in China. I speak the language. I’ve been there more than any of them have, I suspect. My entire point is that their net here is inappropriate, and they clearly seem intent on casting it much wider than just their instance, as evidenced from this specific example of them seeming to follow users and act outside their instance. An example which has absolutely nothing to do with China.
I’ve also never said anything critical of China. I made one comment months ago with a factual statement about a part of China’s history which nobody disputes, without editorial. I legitimately don’t understand why so you seem to be defending this.
I’m not defending it. In case you hadn’t noticed my account is on a threadiverse platform that’s not developed or maintained by marxist leninists.
I assure you I am not bigoted towards China.
Didn’t for a minute think you were. I just see you caught bans under their rule 1 (bigotry etc) and their rule 2 (incivility). Search up me in their mod log and you will see I caught a similar ban from here a few months ago.
Their idea of what constitutes bigotry and criticism, is very different from your idea of it or my idea of it.
I think you may be right and they shadowbanned you for a comment they saw as critical of them, that you made at .world. But that only affects you in relation to you interacting on .ml itself or interacting with people from that instance.
I think the part you are missing is they only want ml platform growth from users they don’t see as being impolite or bigoted towards the political apparatus of China.
This isn’t in the nature of an “excuse”, it’s an explanation. The fediverse isn’t the old model where a company serves the public.
In terms of responsibility for tech itself, when the reddit exodus to the fediverse began, a number of people saw the Lemmy dev committment to marxist leninism as antithetical to the views they themselves wanted to espouse, and opted for other ActivityPub tech like Miskey, Mastodon, or Kbin instead.
I assure you I am not bigoted towards China. I have family in China. I speak the language. I’ve been there more than any of them have, I suspect. My entire point is that their net here is inappropriate, and they clearly seem intent on casting it much wider than just their instance, as evidenced from this specific example of them seeming to follow users and act outside their instance. An example which has absolutely nothing to do with China.
I’ve also never said anything critical of China. I made one comment months ago with a factual statement about a part of China’s history which nobody disputes, without editorial. I legitimately don’t understand why so you seem to be defending this.
I’m not defending it. In case you hadn’t noticed my account is on a threadiverse platform that’s not developed or maintained by marxist leninists.
Didn’t for a minute think you were. I just see you caught bans under their rule 1 (bigotry etc) and their rule 2 (incivility). Search up me in their mod log and you will see I caught a similar ban from here a few months ago.
Their idea of what constitutes bigotry and criticism, is very different from your idea of it or my idea of it.
I think you may be right and they shadowbanned you for a comment they saw as critical of them, that you made at .world. But that only affects you in relation to you interacting on .ml itself or interacting with people from that instance.