PTB. Any community that allows Breitbart and its ilk should be avoided and removed. Absolutely nothing they publish is in good faith, factual, or otherwise. It's right-wing rage porn, nothing more, nothing less.
Edited to remain on-topic.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2025
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Agreed, but I was more diplomatic, simply pointing out the bias and the quality rating from multiple independent sources... Nope, immediately removed by the mod!
Diplomacy with people who enable that cesspool of a publication is going to be a fail, always.
They can be true believers, defensive idiots or trolls .
I’m glad your experience was more or less civilized, even if rude
I can't even make sense of this.
Are you mad because you want the Breitbart source to stay? Or because you want it to go away?
mods: realcaseyrollins
Oh... oh. That community is the number one community on their instance.
- Right Wing Videos
- Censorship News
Jesus, man. Just stay away.
Yeah I recognized the mod username immediately. Def a PTB chud of a mod.
Sorry if I was unclear! I quoted a bit, so tell me if I should edit something to make it less confusing (already clarified slightly). I am venting because I don't think I broke a rule, but my comment with a reputable news source and several independent sources calling attention to the problems Breitbart has was removed.
And yes, I avoided pointing out exactly who it was, but it's pretty obvious who, when the instance has a single moderator... who's also the OP. Their own community has the post downvoted 9 points vs a single upvote! 🤣
I would just make it a little more clear which side you're on. People sometimes come to YPTB because they are being unreasonable. Something like:
- Some idiot posts Breitbart
- I point out that it's clear propaganda with several sources
- My comment gets deleted, Breitbart stays
Then the sources to prove it, but have the simple explanation first. Sometimes if you indicate the primary sources first without the explanation it takes a little triangulation for someone to figure out what's actually going on.
And yeah, I don't even know if this counts as PTB just because of the superseding issue that realcaseyrollins is just here to spew and nothing good can come of interacting with them, mod or not. Like you can't go in the monkey cage and then be surprised when some poop comes flying at you. I'm actually a little surprised that thelemmy.club is not defederated from more places given the apparent waste-of-time state of the place.
PTB.
They popped up in a governance thread on the instance I'm part of, so I did a deep dive on their comments (as others had done on their posts and I thought I could get a better look at their POV if I went for comments) and they, at one point in the past, stated they worded their rules carefully. I believe this sort of thing is intentional, and bad faith.
But as they themselves said several times, they're right-wing, and a person can't help their biases! So the fact that they're intelligent and have no qualms with their biases, just means they're going to hard code their biases into any spaces they litigate. It's to be expected.
These are the people that got banned justly on reddit for posting such nonsense trash.
.club seems to be a troll farm.
They need to be defederated