I don’t think we really have anything to discuss. But it’s remarkable how hard you’re trying to stick to your point of view. Still, this is getting us nowhere.

After trying for more than two years to support this platform with some content, even though it’s not my thing, I thought it would be appropriate. But thank you very much for your opinion - it seems to be your thing to express it.

My statement refers to the fact that the Lemmy post I linked to has a lot of upvotes by Lemmy standards. From this, I conclude that the statement “no politics in all major comms is a good thing” is a popular opinion around these parts. Well, I disagree, because I am a fan of how this Swiss television commentator so courageously shows people how absurd such a rule is. This guy is going to lose his livelihood for this.

So I think it’s worth a few downvotes to point out to people here how fatal it is to believe that applying the same “no politics” rule would lead to a different outcome than what the Olympic Committee is doing when they campaign to get this heroic Swiss commentator fired.

I can’t understand how someone can have so little capacity for abstraction that they can’t comprehend this.

So you’re saying that it’s great that athletes are banned from the Olympics if they dare to make a political statement? That the Fediverse should give its moderators the same power as the IOC to protect unpopular opinions from being spread too widely - on the grounds that it should only be fun and games?

Of course, I realize that. For me, it’s simply a question of who I support. There is no alternative to the Fediverse. But I will not participate in communities that open the floodgates to censorship because they take the same approach as the goddamn IOC. “No politics” is one such rule, as this post shows- there could be no rule that is more broadly formulated and gives the mods maximum leeway for arbitrariness. There are certainly technical ways to give people the option to hide political posts in the most popular communities. However, since the Lemmy developers are staunch tankies, there is absolutely no hope of this happening with this application. So the logical consequence is to leave this platform.

I say that it could hardly be more arbitrary than “no politics.” Nothing else.

Nope, I’m about to leave this platform. I’ve already stopped my financial support. Instead, I’m going with Piefed, because the developers there aren’t ideologues like the ones who engage in arbitrary censorship, as is the case with .ml.

I’ve had enough of this bullshit.

This comment tells me that I should rather watch Swiss television instead.

Isn’t it still the same logic?

And look at the downvotes: People don’t want to hear this - upvotes when someone goes against the “community rules” of Olympia, downvotes for this comment.

But it’s exactly the same thing: Someone is rightly complaining about how absurdly degenerate humanity has become at an event that is meant to be entertaining.

Incidentally, Lemmy would have had this comment removed by a moderator because “no politics.”

And people actually think that’s great because they don’t want to deal with the unpleasantness of reality; they just want to be entertained - see here.

Meanwhile on lemmy

I agree. Nevertheless, people here prefer arbitrary decisions based on rules that are so broad that they only encourage arbitrary decisions by the moderators. From this, I can only conclude that even the people here would rather be entertained than face the adversities of reality.

For me, that is unacceptable - so I’m moving on.

I’ve tried so many comms by now that I’ve lost interest. From now on, I’m just not going to post anything anymore. I’ve said this to myself many times before for the very same reason, but the downvotes on this post confirm it unequivocally. I obviously have no business being here.

Feel free to take a look at my profile to decide whether I really am such an unpleasant person that I shouldn’t be allowed to express my views in any community with some viewability.

This struggle is simply not worth it to me. I’ve also cancel my financial support - I’m sure you’ll manage well without me.

Here’s an example: I posted on /c/unpopularopinion that it can’t be right that even a well-known actor like James Van Der Beek is becoming impoverished because he can’t afford the cost of his cancer treatment. I posted there because I know from experience that this would not be allowed in other communities because it is supposedly a political post - even at unpopularopinion, the post was removed by the moderators.

Therefore, I believe that this arbitrary rule is completely absurd.

Go back to reddit please.

I’ve been here for more than two and a half years, trying to contribute something because I thought it was important. I’m starting to think more and more that it was a wasted effort. Thank you for pointing that out so clearly once again.

So get a decent block list…

You can already hide such posts without any problem by excluding the relevant terms. As this post here suggests, it should also not be too difficult technically to let users decide which content they want to hide using tags.

However, hiding posts in the most popular communities for everyone by moderators is nothing less than plain censorship - and you even like that, because you can’t be bothered with reality…

And so I’m supposed to leave it up to some random person to decide whether to allow me to speak?

How absurd is it that /c/unpopularopinion has “no politics” as its first community rule - as do most of the Lemmy communities with the widest reach? This achieves nothing but opening the floodgates to arbitrary censorship. And why is that? For the simple reason that people would rather be entertained…

Why, it’s the truth. The US is ruled by a third-rate TV personality who could only become president because his father was a billionaire. That’s a fact.