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  1. Mod of !anarchism@slrpnk.net posts a great Greta Thunberg quote, but then tries to use it to justify not voting in the upcoming US election
  2. Multiple people point out that’s very clearly not what she meant
  3. Removed by mod Removed by mod Removed by mod Removed by mod

Using your mod powers to decide who is allowed and not allowed to speak is not very anarchist of you, @mambabasa@slrpnk.net

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure if it's a permaban. Apparently their system is that accounts cost $10 for the lifetime of the account, but you can't get out of line in certain ways, strawmanning being one of them, or you might get a temp ban or lose your account entirely and have to pay another $10.

I don't know that much about it but I think it sounds great. I don't know how you could ever bring that energy to Lemmy, but it sounds a lot better than the "let's invite all the mysterious new accounts with strong opinions about the Democrats to come and play as hard as they want, oh also we ban because today you disagreed with a mod" philosophy.

[-] Blaze@feddit.org 5 points 6 days ago

With that hypothetical system, who would be in charge of deciding the strawmanning? Seems hard to implement in a federated system

[-] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 6 days ago

The wider concept, where they put actuality to the idea that every account on the network is a privilege and if you're a jerk there's a real penalty, I don't think you could do on Lemmy. It's just not the culture here.

I think it would be possible for one community to have a rule that if you pretend someone else said something they clearly didn't say, it's a temp ban. It would be difficult for a certain crop of user accounts to deal with, but I think those are exactly the ones that aren't adding anything but suffering to the conversation, so nothing would be lost by booting them until they learned. I think it would be a good idea. Case in point, this fucking guy. I've given up trying to explain to him that I don't want genocide any more than he claims not to, and I don't even really like Kamala Harris, I just mostly think Trump in charge of the US is a biblical horror, and I want to avoid it. Somehow that keeps turning into that I love Kamala Harris and defend every part of her platform. I don't even know why I've invested so much keyboard time into this conversation, other than the idea of someone promoting don't-vote-ism is really alarming to me, and I want to say something when I see it.

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