My removed comment, in its entirety, was:

I don’t support Hamas. They killed all those people; fuck them. I also don’t support the current Israeli government, because they occupy, kill, torture, rape, and systematically dehumanize 5 million people, most of whom didn’t do anything wrong and just want to live. So, fuck the Israeli government too. I was just making a point about how forbidding the flags doesn’t have much to do with solving anything about that situation.

The reason given for removal was rule 1:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

Link to the thread. They also removed my interlocutor’s comment, which while unproductive was genuinely harmless, more so even than mine.

Modlog

So we’re not allowed to criticize the Israeli government on lemmy.ml? (Or wherever was the mod that removed this)

For real?

I realize that whining about removed posts is probably not productive. It is life. 🥲 However, this type of stuff happened frequently on Reddit and helped to convince me it was fundamentally a cheeseball platform. Just recently I was actually arguing with some people and pointing out that I’d never had my stuff removed on Lemmy even though I have some viewpoints that are way more unpopular than “Israel shouldn’t kill civilians.”

And now, the Reddit mod philosophy has arrived here.

  • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    34·
    9 months ago

    I disagree. Issues of where to draw the line as to what represents “free speech and debate” and what represents “toxic behavior” and how to deal with the latter without squashing the former are pretty central to the fediverse fulfilling its potential, and concrete examples of how it’s playing out in practice are part of that conversation. In my opinion.

    There’s a certain portion of it that honestly is just sour grapes on my part, yeah, which isn’t ideal for this forum. I can admit that. But the issue at the heart of it is also an important issue to discuss if this is to be a worthwhile platform. In my opinion.

    Let me ask this, does this (my specific example) seem like something worthwhile to talk about in your opinion? If so where would you think is an appropriate community for it?

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      I don’t see how it relates at all. The mod made a decision for their server and followed it through. That seems pretty fediverse to me. What would also be purely fediverse is if you created your own server then you could post whatever you wanted.

    • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
      2·
      9 months ago

      You just said

      Just recently I was actually arguing with some people and pointing out that I’d never had my stuff removed on Lemmy even though I have some viewpoints that are way more unpopular than “Israel shouldn’t kill civilians.”

      and are complaining when one of your comments get removed. From your post it doesn’t seem like a trend of the fediverse

      • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        I was saying that recently as a big point in the Lemmy-portion-of-the-fediverse’s favor, then after that, these events happened and belied my early statement.