worldnews at .ml is a dumpster fire. First community I had to completely scrub from my instance because it was just so toxic from top to bottom.

Edit: Also, will share my last comment there before I self-banned and purged that cesspit from my instance. This is in reply to someone making a fat joke about Kim Jong Un:

Good 'ol ambiguous Rule 1 lol

This is the comment and of course toothy banned me for 3 days too.

Just like they did for "sinophobia" when I expressed misgivings about Chinese and Hungarian cops joining forces 🤦

I was also banned from worldnews@lemmy.ml and had comments removed for "Re-enforcing neo-liberal cultural hegemony" and "Believes in objectivity in media lmao".

My offense? Saying that a report sourced solely from an eye-witness account via Al-Jazeera regarding another massacre of civilians and aid workers in Gaza needed to be corroborated by further evidence before we regard it as hard fact. The irony is I'm very much pro-Palestinan.

According to the mods, however, that apparently means I have to throw all media literacy out of the window and blindly accept any anti-Israel claims without question.

The irony of a communist banning someone over "McCarthyism" when what the banned user said was not even close to McCarthyism, making the mod action itself McCarthyism.

They've become the very thing they hate!

Usually I hop in these threads ready to tell people why they deserve to be banned, but dang. There is nothing wrong, ethically or factually, in what you said.

This is why I’ll personally never donate to the Lemmy devs. I could never bring myself to fund a tankie.

I have had my comment removed and/or banned from the ml worldnews for "misinformation" for debunking Russian propaganda with sources.

Babe, wake up; a new .ml wrongthink euphemism dropped

Oh, I got banished from a whole instance on Mastadon for saying that the Apple Safari team looks at every bug request (and they do):

Little fucking Napoleons will ruin social media, not matter what platform.

Just block the community/instance and move on

Being a moderator is the only amount of power these people will ever have, and they like it, and will absolutely abuse it.

You guys are getting notifications? I just notice the lack of upvotes after a while posting into the void.

I was banned for "Rule 4" which, by digging through their rules (which weren't as easy to find as I expected it to be) I learnt that it was "Illegal content". I literally never posted a comment, post or had ANY kind of interaction on lemmy before. THIS would be my first comment.

I just had one removed from news as well. I don't even remember what I said though so I somehow doubt it was something that crazy

Time for an alternate community

I'm still undecided as to who is more irritating to deal with... the tankies over in .ml or the liberals over here.

You said that germanys Nazi problem doesn’t have to do with west Germany never denazifying and that west Germany was a perfect country because of how pacifist it is and how they remember the holocaust.

You posted a screenshot earlier, but here’s the text of your removed comment, split up into the part you quoted and your comment itself for people who have trouble reading the screenshot:

West Germany was never denazified data that ends before the BIRTH of the majority of Germans

Look, I'm not saying that Germany doesn't have a problem with an increase in far right politics and violence in recent years, but to claim that they never stopped being a Nazi country is some ahistorical tankie edgelord bullshit. Until recently, Germany has been a near-pacifist country almost pathologically careful to "Nie wiederholen, nie vergessen" (never repeat, never forget) and pretending otherwise doesn't accomplish anything except expose your very shallow and underdeveloped understanding of the world.

For people who don’t know 20th century European history, that’s like saying that American racism isn’t related to how half assed reconstruction was except over a shorter timeframe.