My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a “tankie” instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across [email protected], which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

  • falgscode [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    41·
    3 days ago

    these scratched liberals are doing god’s work. it was the same sort of complaining about the subreddit from an obvious shithead on like /r/hockey or somewhere that got me to sub in the first place

    now I haven’t even used reddit in five years comfy-cool

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      29·
      3 days ago

      It’s fun how so little sets them off lol. They got banned on a forum they had never even posted on, after working themselves up into a frothing posting frenzy. Then they go to complain about it somewhere unrelated without even a second’s reflection

      Like if this person hasn’t been banned for the holodomor stuff how long would it had been for simply being a tightly wound argumentative nerd who can’t just log off.