I enjoyed my time being here and helping to grow this community. My plan was to keep things such as book of the month and show discussions going indefinitely. It’s sad to say goodbye as I would love to continue to try my best at facilitating discussion and help this community become a great resource for science fiction fans everywhere. Unfortunately, I don’t have a choice as lemmy.world admins have made the rather baffling decision to ban my account despite no rules being broken. Unless I hear back from Ruud on the matter and the situation is rectified there is no way for me to continue to enjoy discussing science fiction with all of you here. I’m unsure if I will attempt to restart this community on another instance.

Keep on loving science fiction. You guys are great. 🚀

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      Specifically they are upset that I’ve mentioned that Sync has ads in it. Which is both curious and suspicious. I’d rather not think up conspiracy theories, but it doesn’t make any reasonable kind of sense. If you can decipher this strange behavior then I’d be curious to know. Whatever makes this “toxic” is beyond my current understanding of the situation.

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          Though it’s abundantly clear that his views are gaining some negative attention from some users that either are misinformed, or have questionable intentions.

          It’s entirely possible companies are trying multiple vectors to gain a chokehold on the community early on, seeing that most of the fediverses users are in currently in one convenient basket. Making communities falling under it, very appealing for predatory agencies.

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          if that’s all it takes to get a perma-boot there, how tf they have any users left?

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          Yeah I don’t agree with the ads take at all, but I don’t think the commentary was toxic or harassing.

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        Do apps like Sync require hosting of some kind? Almost any free app should have ads in it unless you want a paid version which doesn’t. People should be paid for their work.

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    If you’re going to give it a go, look at my instance (science Fiction and Fantasy Alliance) or the literature cafe one. Hopefully you can get unbanned though.

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    I’m so sorry to hear that.

    I’ve too been banned from 2 communities without any justification. (I even made a post about it.)

    We need to speak up as members of this wonderful community, we need to build a network that works on trust and reason.

    Otherwise, Lemmy (and the Fediverse at large) will be no better than the big tech platforms we fight so hard to get away from.

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      I mean users are the ones that are flocking to lemmy.world to start new communities instead doing that on other instances.

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          I don’t generally post on lemmy.world if alternative community exists somewhere else. Cross-posting is a good tool for spreading out but it is not really getting used a lot due to mobile clients not handing them and just showing multiple posts in a row (which annoys people).

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        It’s a bit of a discoverability problem I think, much easier to find content on your own instance. (So new communities are opened on instances with lots of people)

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          Definitely. Lemmy needs to figure out a way to search more globally (e.g. Mastodon relies on tags for discoverability), but there are external tools like https://lemmyverse.net/communities at the moment. I think just as important is people understanding that you can still grow on smaller instances if you produde interesting content. Just start is a bit slower.

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            Having to use an external tool gets in the way of a lot of people just through friction unfortunately. Lots of the people here are quite techy I think which helps though.

            I need to take another look through there though, I keep running out of content.

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              Please be very very very very careful using this as it can and does cause a shit ton of bandwidth and if you aren’t careful it can essentially create the equivalent of a mini ddos attack especially to smaller instances.

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                  Yes, but federation pulls a lot of data from an instance especially if that bot isn’t configured well. Even if it is, it can cause CPU usage to skyrocket as pulling new communities can sometimes bring a lot of database activity.

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      I was instanced banned as well

      This is just like reddit, curating content they approve vs what they disapprove

      Who knows what this is, was or soon will be

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    @izzydata Odd behavior on the part of the admin there, especially as they were adding you as a mod to communities less than two months ago. Feels like they have a stake in Synch bringing in some revenue, and aren’t happy about your criticism.

    You ran a great community over there, and it’s clear you’re getting the shaft. If you ever are looking for a home for your content, you’ve got an open invitation to the @13thFloor - always looking for great scifi across all media.

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    I don’t understand why this would happen. Seems silly to ban someone over expressing their opinion when they’re doing it in a perfectly sensible way. This stuff makes people worried that they’ll get banned for innocent posts. Will we get banned for this?

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      lemmy.world is dying a slow and painful death, just hop on a more suitable instance.

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      That’s the Lemmy world admins in a nut shell.

      Similar thing happened to me due to a one off comment criticizing their use of discord.

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    Come over to Kbin. Honestly I hear some much weird crap going on with Lemmy instances. You can still federate with Lemmy.world unless they block the community. You also seem to be a user on lemmy.ml which isnt .world and could be the reason in itself you’re being banned as lemmy.ml has got some weird polices and admin stuff going on.

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    I’m pretty sure Lemmy is a failed experiment. It’s been one blow after another. It’s like a wasteland here and lemmy.world is just making it worse. The lack of actual functioning mod tools is also a weak point. Should we even take Lemmy seriously anymore?