Today I noticed a huge wall of spam from UniversalMonk from 2 different accounts and didn't initially think much of it and blocked their communities but more spam came from different communities.
At this point I checked and saw that they had created several communities which then led me down the rabbit hole to discover that their posts had almost entirely covered the new posts page of both sh.itjust.works and lemm.ee. Later on I discovered that they're posting right-wing propaganda and misinformation from breitbart, foxnews you name it.
He's already caused and stirred shit 2 months ago and clearly I can see why now.
At this point it's difficult to believe that UniversalMonk will learn proper netiquette in: not post spamming, being considerate to others, and not sharing right-wing extremist content that no one wants.
So u want to silence someone for their beliefs. Let em speak and if u dont like it block em and downvote them.
Free speach does not mean u have a right to not be offended.
Sure, I'll take the bait. It's not at all an issue of his beliefs. Plenty of people on Lemmy think that we should vote for third parties, plenty of people on Lemmy think that... I don't know, I blocked UM so long ago that I can't even really remember what his beliefs were. I think he thought Biden was doing a bad job. I don't think that is some weird heretic belief on Lemmy that will get you banned. Nothing he had to say was ever the issue.
If every time someone gets on the bus, they sit down next to random other passengers and start pestering them about Jesus, loudly and without fail, no matter how much the person clearly doesn't want it, and then when multiple people tell them to stop, they start crying about religious discrimination, yell at the whole bus, say they won't be silenced, show up the next day with a whole backpack full of pamphlets about the first amendment, concoct elaborate disguises to be able to sneak back on the bus once one bus driver finally has had enough and bans them, all the while setting up this incredibly loud consistent whining sound about how they're being persecuted because of their Christianity, it was never about the Christianity.
You can be Christian on the bus. You can also be Jewish or Muslim. You can wear a headscarf, you can talk to your friends about Jesus, together on the bus. Likewise, you can be anti-Biden, or pro-Biden, or pro-socialist, or whatever you want to be, on Lemmy. When you become so incredibly obnoxious about your style of interaction that the entire community has agreed that you're causing a problem, and then instead of being open to feedback and continuing to say what you think, but in a fashion that is productive and respectful of everyone else, you instead double down and say you won't be silenced and send threatening DMs to your critics and start making a whole bunch of new accounts when you are banned from multiple places, it is time for you to go. Because you had your opportunity to tone it down and integrate within the social contract that makes the place function, and you explicitly and proudly chose not to.
Well said, and great example.
Great example but flawed. There are no block buttons in real life their are on lemmy.
I kept putting my headphones in, and then I turned them up until I couldn't hear the person that was next to me talking about Jesus. Means it's fixed, right? We just need to get every new person that gets on the bus to make sure they know they might need to put on their headphones.
Well most intelligent people already know that.