If they all had British accents I would have thrown up all over the theater

A dog won't torture and get any pleasure from the explicit pain of an innocent for pain's sake. Apples to oranges. Humans are fucked up lol

Its proven both the CIA and Russia engage in extreme meme warfare. Who really knows, but i would absolutely not be surprised if a significant amount of accounts in the lemmyverse are run by them for their nefarious divisive purposes. Good investigation.

You cant post anything that slightly resembles 9/11 conspiracy on this site without a slew of downvotes. I made a post just asking if people believed the official story and got verbatim some of the same comments and a slew of downvotes. Presuming they're not with other malicious motives, I think they're just close minded dicks

That still isn't a justifiable reason for the ban, why is it so hard for you to understand that you just preemptively banned someone who you personally disagree with? And that's textbook power tripping

"So is what PugJesus was/is doing to various other users. I gave him a taste of his own medicine." Oh cool so you're admitting to being a cyber bully and explicitly doing shitty things, thinking it's justified 'because the other guy is doing it'. That's fucked up and you clearly haven't taken the time to get introspective about it to see your hypocrisy. Bad mod. Nice screenshot by the way, i suppose you think that someone calling genocide denying and dehumanizing Tankies scum is 'cyberbullying'. And you're even twisting the definitions of hate speech. Yeah I'm going to just take it that you are a very unstable individual with some agenda to fill or vision of yourself that you think you need to uphold. Maybe take a minute to breathe and touch some grass, and realize you are indeed part of the problem. That doesn't mean it has to stay that way.

Oh you mean the fake feminist CIA plant?

Oh cool so you preemptively banned him from a bunch of communities and you got a bunch of mod buddies to do the same, for "causing trouble" and a "mile-long mod log". This reads like a you problem, and makes you look just like a crappy Reddit mod. I guess that's why you made a several minutes long audio talking shit about one user. Yeah, methinks you're part of the toxicity OP is talking about.

Edit: love how you're editing your comment to make yourself seem more reasonable without any edit flag Edit2: your parent comment was edited so many times it's kind of ridiculous

Seems implied

All of your points hit hard and I feel them almost 1 to 1. Lemmy is an interesting experiment and I enjoy how it has come far as a Reddit alternative. That said, personally I've experienced more toxicity here than on Reddit. All your points hit on that, from weird purity benchmarks to extremely rude and hostile people without any prompting. And the strange borderline pedophilic porn. I commented once that a child in Japan who's 15 doesn't magically become 18 to the rest of the world and it was my most downvoted comment for the longest time. I tried to ask about what people thought about 9/11 and I got called a sealioning troll and downvoted to oblivion. Even someone takes issue with my mycology photos lol. Can't even have that. Not to mention the times I was banned for completely bullshit or unexplained reasons, thanks Lemmy.ML/socialism! Love how they praise Kim Jong Un and you cant say anything bad about N Korea nor China. To them N Korea is a beauty country that treats its citizens better than the USA. Give me a break. And they arent even the only ones with power tripping mods, which is one of the biggest complaints I had with using Reddit.I'm going to try to stay active since there are still cool people here, but i wish I could block tons and tons of people from both me seeing their shit and them mine, since this one-way block doesn't solve much for me.

Poxlox "bitch and moan and cry" huh? Yeah that's why it worked for youtube for 7 years from 2005 until 2012 when they openly monetized. Shut the fuck up.