I wish there weren’t two posts from this same exchange.

To answer your question “What do you all think, should I have even made my original comment if I already knew it to be fruitless?” The answer is unequivocally “no.”

You were in an instance that doesn’t allow for authoritarianism, an instance that bans people based on their comment history even outside of that instance. You show up with the authoritarianism in your profile and try telling someone complaining about their friend not disliking authoritarianism with “just be friends.” This is all completely expected for the rules of that instance.

When people get a ban for doing a thing in a place where the rules say to not do that thing… it’s YDI.

YDI.

Lemmy.blahaj.zone specifically is for trans folks. You’re not going to make friends there defending authoritarianism, and it’s part of their actual rules.

They also ban based on what your account does outside of their instance, and more than just this specific instance has you defending tankies (and it looks like, on cursory glance, you identify as one) so that would lead to a banning.

Don’t worry though, there are a lot of folks banned from there who are sour about it who’ll be along shortly to say PTB.

First I am. And then…

I’m not.

This is a weird nit to pick. If you’re doing it right, you’re only mentioning your age when it doesn’t matter (in safe places or places where your age is helpful, versus places like Lemmy where someone will ban you.)

A good example would be me saying, in this thread, I’m almost 40. Anybody who can use that against me doesn’t matter to me.

I’m biased here. I’m still against .world and their tendency to use “legality” as a smokescreen. (Blaming it for banning Luigi content right after he axed that United guy has earned my ire forever.)

However… I’m almost 40, and it was always the rule to never mention your age until it didn’t matter. So on the one hand, world loves to use legality to push it’s agenda. On the other hand, this is an expected outcome.

The white-hot rage I felt, hahaha!

So the style reminds me of the bimbo picks up a book meme, but I never read the Silmarillion, so it’s implication is past me.