Joeyowlhouse

This user was banned for being anti-Semitic and telling people to kill themselves. Also, when you're instance-banned, you automatically get banned from the communities you were active in. The mod didn't manually ban them from all those communities. When you attempt to post to a community in an instance you're banned from that you weren't active in, the instance-ban means the post won't federate.

YouTube has so many ads now it's ridiculous. Yesterday YouTube threatened me with the popup even though I have UBlock on Firefox. I've seen 10 ads on a 20 minute video. As if the un-skipabble 2 minute long ads that pause when you switch tabs wasn't bad enough, YouTube is now putting ads in their Premium.

YouTube is in dire need of a big competitor and fast.

OP has very little understanding of the fediverse given they don't know how bans work and appears to dislike the fediverse quite a lot given their other post and this one as well.

I wonder if it has anything to do with this, and this?

I mean, it's called the fediverse. That alone should cue OP that it's not a single site.

Yeah, the whole point of the Fediverse is it's decentralized. Each instance has its own independent administrators so if you come across an instance you don't like, you can just post to another one. Lemmy isn't just one site but hundreds of sites that communicate together.

Context for those unaware:

"A friend of mine" OP is referring to Call Me Leni, who was banned from several instances and communities for being a KiwiFarms member, among other things, and OP has a grudge against the Fediverse for this. Leni shouldn't have linked their KiwiFarms posts on Lemmy, and linked Lemmy threads talking about them on their KiwiFarms account. That wasn't very bright of them.

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Modlog

Call me Leni also defended KiwiFarms as a "free speech" site and tried to conflate the hate site with Discord:

I take it OP feels like the Fediverse is violating "free speech" for banning KiwiFarms members.

It's about time women got more accurate representation in games. How many games have you play as a man compared to playing as a woman? Technically it should be 50/50 to more accurately represent the real world.

I wonder if Elon will be in the history books for the fastest someone has destroyed their reputation?

Quoting the article

"I’m glad I’m an extremist,” he wrote. “Makes me WAY less tethered to this turd of a planet.

Very very screwed up. People like him are dangerous to society.

This. I feel sorry for Christine. She attracted the attention of trolls for appearing "awkward". She then attracted a group of trolls known as the "Idea Guys" who basically made her mental health spiral even more, affecting her grasp on reality. This went on for years and years.

KiwiFarms is also the same site that was responsible for the suicide of the beloved BSNES/Higan dev, Byuu/Near.

True, that's why on Lemmy, users can't as easily lie about the reason they're banned as they can on other sites. It's also possible to see which mod banned whom.

You claimed in this comment that Leni was banned from multiple instances for being autistic, which I have proven to be a lie here. I don't understand why you would lie about this. If you're interested in a honest discussion here, I strongly advise you to not make claims which can easily be proven to be false.

Leni was banned from multiple instances for being a KiwiFarms user with a history of abusing people, bigotry, and Nazi apologia.