Sheesh yeah i’m out. If this is what the federation has become then I want no part in it. It’s not about me, it’s about fascism.

The only reason I speak out is because if they’re doing this to me they’re no doubt doing this to a lot more people. I’d rather allow some record of it happening instead of just allowing bad actors a monopoly over the narrative. Journalists much prefer it when people speak out instead of just going silent in the face of oppression.

I don’t feel comfortable flooding a small server about a niche subject with generalist content. Kind of goes against the spirit of the server.

The idea was to get the jewish people out of germany. Sure they weren’t as gung-ho about murdering them as the other factions in germany, forced displacement is still very much classified as genocide. And yes, zionism very much started as christian thing, that’s why conflating zionism with judaism is by definition antisemitism; they’re two completely different things.

I edited the previous comment with the removal log so you can see for yourself what they clapped me on. It’s pretty revealing.

I chose it because it’s the biggest one. It wasn’t my first choice; the other instance I started on was too small to serve much purpose.

Fair, I had a post removed a long time ago which I made a post about on here. I referred to it. They claim it was holocast inversion but all I said was that the zionists worked with the nazis to expel semites and that palestine is an extension of that, which is literally what happened. I made it very clear I wasn’t referring to jewish people as anything other than a victim, but they didn’t care. In their mind, zionism = jewish even though zionism was initially a Christian movement.

Important note to bring up: conflating zionism with Judaism is anti-semitism, but what do you expect from a german instance?

EDIT: my comment removal email shines light into exactly what they found umbrage in. The last one is especially revealing.

EDIT2: They were very fast to reject my appeal.

That’s like saying we shouldn’t deal with neo-nazis who aren’t in power. They’re choosing to side with evil and thus deserve equal punishment. “Oh no they might feel bad about it” good they should feel bad. They should genuinely feel bad.

You are being lied to.

Gamergate never ended, it just went into hiding.

Wonder why.

Fake, that’s way too coherent and competent to have come from a CEO.

The closest I ever found to love was a result of me being unapologetically myself. I was a terrible person but it turns out that someone was into that. By the end I was involved with someone else’s life by no effort of my own; exemplified by the fact that my first memory of them is a few years after their first memory of me. Sadly as I grew as a person we fell off and this time i’m finding it a lot harder to find someone who likes me.

You can make all the vague guesses you want, I’ve lived the experience and can say flat out the instance uses respectability politics to shut out criticism. Like it’s clear as day to anyone on the receiving end of that what they’re about.

All i’m trying to say is them defederating from lemmygrad tells you everything about that instance that you need to know. Hexbear I get, but grad holds themselves up to a way higher standard of comment quality and there was zero reason to defederate outside political. They literally only blocked the instance because they were communists who aren’t afraid to calmly debunk fascist propaganda with sources, and that’s an experience corroborated by literally anyone who has had the displeasure of interacting with their polite-fascist administration.

EDIT: the example you provided is not only completely useless as it guts the original intent of the message but is STILL too offensive for them, as bringing up fascism is already “killing the mood” more than enough for them to remove. Not only that they would accuse you of calling the OP a Nazi which is another way they can shut you down. Believe me I’ve dealt with liberal fascists my whole life i’ve heard it all.

How do you respectfully say “this is nazi propaganda?” You can’t. That’s the point. That’s why they do it.

Because you’re seeing them as an idealized object of desire, not as a person.

How to break out of this: think of a bunch of flaws they could have that would be challenging but not deal-breakers.

Kind of shares the same problem I had with Mobilizon in that none of the current instances are in my region, or my language for that matter.

What the fuck is this circlejerk bullshit? Steam is a competent platform, that’s it.

All Steam revolutionized is getting people to download DRM and psychologically manipulating them into buying EXEs they will never download with skins that are pretty much NFTs in all but name and people act like they’re the 3rd coming of god.

There’s a phrase for that: Counterjerking too hard. Judging by the reactions you’re getting from this, seems you’ve done it twice in a row.

Remember, counterjerking is not a principled stance; those who stand for nothing will fall for everything.

I quote it nearly every day

There is no problem that can’t be solved by getting off Twitter

Hmm wonder why people would quit a circlejerk platform that bans people who call out when someone posts literal fascist propaganda.