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Banned from Palestine@Lemmy.ml for pointing out that other countries support Zionism
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this post was submitted on 24 Jul 2026
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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
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Then there's no connection. I was talking about .ml, not other instances
The connection is the idea of echo chambers . Just because certain views are not allowed it doesn't it necessarly an echo chembers. One example is the ukraine sub it will not allow russian propaganda
So you went on a tangent. Fair enough.
But I wasn't speaking in general, I am aware that curation and moderation are useful things. If you'll go back, my initial comment led off with a sentence that specified .ml.
They create echo chambers on a regular basis, and do so using methodology that falls under "power trippin".
But, back to your tangent about general echo chambers. I would partially agree with you. It is necessary to play gatekeeper when you moderate any community. Part of that is minimizing conflict. Since some communities are going to draw extra heat by virtue of being a hot topic, a moderator may have to deploy aggressive filtering, to the point of outright rejection of some types of comments.
That may or may not result in an echo chamber. But it can, and does if the moderator isn't very judicious in their application of that tool set