To be clear, not talking about this community, obviously ๐.
What's the point of writing down rules, if mods just do what they want? But I suppose that's the risk you take when you call someone a liar in a small community; they might be a mod.
Edit: I'm not trying to say that mods suck, they perform a useful and often thankless job. Just that it can be difficult for small communities to get a healthy number of good mods, which can become a problem.
I didn't get a ban, but definitely had a post "disappeared" with no explanation because I had the audacity to mention the extreme anti-Israel bias around here.
That's one of the real problems I see so often, moderators feel strongly their side is right therefore anyone on the other side MUST be a bad actor and therefore it's good to get rid of them using any means necessary - I've seen the same happen with people arguing against just stop oil and various other similar things - in the mods minds they're just getting rid of bad faith posters and evil agents but in reality they're silencing anyone who disagrees.
Israel is shit, fuck off
It is morally right to be against a racist ethnostate genocidal Zionist regime and anyone even a little standing up for them is going straight to hell. Yes, this includes statements like "it's complicated" no it fucking isn't. The entire state was created to do ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
EDIT: of COURSE it's a lemmy world user. Fucking nazi bar instance.