They shouldn’t be able to do that!

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    17 hours ago

    Then go to a private platform. This is a platform for public discourse, not private communities.

    PS: You could even make a community on lemmy and ban people as it’s moderator. Although a different platform may still be a better fit.

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        I had a feeling playing the victim and name calling was coming next after your last message.

        But just in case anyone arguing in good faith needs it spelled out: Not every thing has to cater to every audience. Lemmy, at least for me, is primarily for sharing information, whether news, opinions or just memes. On such a site, I believe it is more important to avoid echo chambers and misinformation. So it requires a moderator or an admin to ban people. It’s not as if Lemmy is an unmoderated hellscape, it just leans more towards free speech over creating perfectly safe spaces than you may like. Avoiding echo chambers and misinformation benefits all users, including minorities. Therefore, every site hast to find a balance for it’s use-case. I would expect many people, whether minorities or otherwise, can handle occasional mean words or words they disagree with on their screens. But it is also alright if you are more sensitive or not in a good place psychologically and don’t want to deal with this. There are other places on the internet you can go, that do have the kind of blocking you want. Some places will lean towards free speech, some towards heavy moderation. That’s the great thing about the internet, not every place has to be the same.

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        16 hours ago

        Please go make your own place where those minorities (whoever they are) can do whatever they want.

        • Them before you put words in their mouth to make a terrible argument.
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          i mean, i’ve linked you to the conversation I had.

          have you tried to talk to anyone about it? or are you just some white dude confidently saying that nobody should change anything because it works for you, so it should work for everyone else?

          because you really sound like that.

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            i mean, i’ve linked you to the conversation I had.

            You have? I must have missed it, could you re paste it?

            have you tried to talk to anyone about it? or are you just some white dude confidently saying that nobody should change anything because it works for you, so it should work for everyone else?

            Odd, not sure what you are getting at. Talk about what? Are you sure you are replying to the right person. Also please continue to try and guess my gender, race, and world view, since it is clear you want to paint me in a way that you can disregard my statements. You wish to make me less then human, so please do.

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              second time I’ve shared this with you (or at least a reply in the same thread). I dont think that the conversation is in one linear thread, but i dont remember since it was 2 years ago.

              since it is clear you want to paint me in a way that you can disregard my statements

              kind of like the things you’ve been saying to both me _and other people in this thread (?!?!?) that I’m a powerhungry mod wannabe? is that not painting me in a way so that you (and others?!?!) can disregard my statements? if not, then why do you keep bringing it up?
              2 wrongs don’t make a right, but at least I’m trying to convey the concerns that I learned about to the best of my ability. as best I can tell, you don’t even seem to want to admit that there is any issue with the current way things are.
              because fundamentally all I’m trying to do is say that the things that OP wans are reasonable for a person to want when engaging with a social network, and I’m using this previous conversation I had as groundwork with which to explain that. Which I’m evidently doing poorly.