Someone commented that sanctions wouldn’t work on China because sanctions were too harsh, and that the US should treat China as a parent does a child, educating them and encouraging them toward US goals so that sanctions were unnecessary.
I pointed out that China and the US do not remotely have a paternal relationship and a culturally American call to China would not elicit a culturally American response from China because of how different the cultures are.
Got banned for “Orientalism”.
Part of me wants to say keep trying, but of course there’s the risk that you’ll lose out on content as other users block .ml or instances defederate. So there are good reasons not to stick around on an instance where one disagrees with the moderation philosophy.
Then again, there are still enough reasonable people over there that most people wouldn’t want to defederate. :)
I agree. It’s better to block specific communities and establish a home on another instance, IMHO. Unless an instance is really bad or just spammy, I usually wont block it.
Even with beehaw, there are some decent communities that are removed from the drama, believe it or not … (beehaw/c/animals as an example: https://lemmy.ca/post/14488834)