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"I did something pointlessly mean and insensitive, but that's not important! I experienced repercussions that I feel were undeserved! I demand justice (but only for me, not for anyone else)!"

I get what you're trying to say, but you're choosing a rather tactless way to say it. Point is, that community is run by moderators who are exercising their right to ban you based on your choice of speech. You could send the moderators of the community a DM, apologize, and try to sort it out, but instead you're coming here to complain, which is... definitely not going to solve the problem.

Alternately, start your own AskLemmy community elsewhere. If enough people disagree with those moderator decisions, they can come and participate in yours, instead. That, really, is the benefit of Lemmy over Reddit.

It's directly in the rules of the sidebar, and you violated them. Lemmy isn't an unmoderated space. It's a space where you can engage where you pick the moderation style you're interested in. What you experienced wasn't censorship, it was the repercussions of your own actions

I mean, being vulgar and flaming people is just sorta proving the point of why you got banned, if anything. I wouldn't really say you're making a good case for yourself here.

I get you're coming at this from a free speech angle, but yeah, I don't think flaming is helpful. With more users, and more experienced mods, I think this issue will reduce and you'll be able to offend more people with less pushback 😂

I think in that mod’s head, it was the point.

I mean no disrespect, but your comments come across as you having some anger management issues. I can see how someone could worry that it might be to the point of being ready to take everything down with you.

I would say that the use of needlessly aggressive language is a part of it. I don’t particularly associate it with free speech (assuming that you do) since it doesn’t relate to an opinion you’re expressing with it; but it would occur to me as a mod that this anger could be a threat to keeping the community healthy for longer. The pointlessly aggressive comments is something that I personally don’t miss from Reddit.

Anyway, Lemmy is decentralized, so you’re free to start your own instance/community who may be joined by other like-minded users who may not read into it what I’m reading into it. I don’t know you, and I could be wrong.

You got band for being an asshole on an instance that doesn't allow assholes. I'm not really seeing the parallel.

You sound like a trumper.