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"Got banned as a "fascist sympathizer" from games@hexbear.net for discussing the Ukrainian perspective of the STALKER developers who made changes to the game trilogy"

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Got banned as a "fascist sympathizer" from games@hexbear.net for discussing the Ukrainian perspective of the STALKER developers who made changes to the game trilogy - Lemmy.zip

My first months on Lemmy were spent on Lemmy.world, which was the biggest instance at the time. I had no experience with Hexbear because .world had defederated that instance. I sometimes saw it being described as a "tankie" instance, but it was nothing specific.

After I moved to .zip, I came across !games@hexbear.net, which seemed to be free from anything overtly political and reminded me of r/Gamingcirclejerk, so I subscribed to it and occasionally made comments related to gaming.

Today I made multiple comments to a post about an article on the STALKER game developers having removed the Soviet symbols and the Russian audio in the remastered edition of the game. I would argue that in the thread, there were no comments from me that could be construed by a reasonable person as defensive of Nazism, fascism, or even hinting at it. For example, in one of the comments, I linked a Ukrainian law that prohibits the use of Nazi symbols, though I highly advise looking through all my ten comments as to avoid any misunderstanding or false impressions.

Conversely, one comment posted by another user dismissed Holodomor as Nazi propaganda, which I reported, but a moderator of that community just ended up calling me out for that and taking no action, followed by them banning me.

The thread containing all of my untouched posts is still available via lemmy.zip. My comments are also available for viewing via my user page. They are not available on hexbear due to the ban.

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  • Here is the Hexbear for you nerds altho the comments got purged

    • They don't even show up in the modlog for me. Is it cuz they're from a different instance?

      • I've noticed that a lot of times, but not always, when a user is permabanned most of their comments are removed even from the modlog. I thought that was just for instance-wide bans, but it looks like it may apply to comm-bans too. I'm also curious about the specifics of how that works if anyone who knows wants to chime in.

        Edit: makes obvious sense for bans due to spam to wipe all comments, but it definitely happens even when that's not the reason for the ban.

        • its the remove content options, when we mods ban someone from a community, we have the option of "remove content" which removes all comments someone has made in a post, this makes it so it doesnt appear in the modlog because its seem as spam.

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