It was probably an automated decision to be entirely honest

I once got banned for quoting a spammer to make fun of their spam. They banned me because they thought I was the spammer.

I think it’s kind of the inverse of what you see on platforms like TruthSocial or such. Everyone goes to those to be racist assholes. Similarly, many people go to Lemmy to escape racist/capitalist/etc assholes, and because they’ve been effected by racist/capitalist/etc assholes or their policies, they spend a lot of time discussing them.

You almost need a population of normies (sorry) to act as a ‘buffer’, maybe? Idk, thinking out loud.

Pixelfed is really quite positive despite the similar context, but it’s a little… “cocktail party” vibes sometimes. Not enough weird people for me, but that’s why I try being weird there.

I like Pixelfed too, for all its bugs. I would like to drop Instagram for it, but I’ve managed to convince exactly zero of my friends to join PF lol

I think at that point it’s more of a revolution than a riot, but I agree

And (in the experience of hypothetical pirate goblins I’ve hypothetically spoken to) won’t result in your ISP shutting your internet off until you agree to be nice and never do that again.