I enjoyed my time being here and helping to grow this community. My plan was to keep things such as book of the month and show discussions going indefinitely. It’s sad to say goodbye as I would love to continue to try my best at facilitating discussion and help this community become a great resource for science fiction fans everywhere. Unfortunately, I don’t have a choice as lemmy.world admins have made the rather baffling decision to ban my account despite no rules being broken. Unless I hear back from Ruud on the matter and the situation is rectified there is no way for me to continue to enjoy discussing science fiction with all of you here. I’m unsure if I will attempt to restart this community on another instance.

Keep on loving science fiction. You guys are great. 🚀

    • Izzy@lemmy.mlOP
      502·
      10 months ago

      Specifically they are upset that I’ve mentioned that Sync has ads in it. Which is both curious and suspicious. I’d rather not think up conspiracy theories, but it doesn’t make any reasonable kind of sense. If you can decipher this strange behavior then I’d be curious to know. Whatever makes this “toxic” is beyond my current understanding of the situation.

        • OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works
          16·
          10 months ago

          Though it’s abundantly clear that his views are gaining some negative attention from some users that either are misinformed, or have questionable intentions.

          It’s entirely possible companies are trying multiple vectors to gain a chokehold on the community early on, seeing that most of the fediverses users are in currently in one convenient basket. Making communities falling under it, very appealing for predatory agencies.

        • ares35@kbin.social
          141·
          10 months ago

          if that’s all it takes to get a perma-boot there, how tf they have any users left?

        • 4am@lemm.ee
          8·
          10 months ago

          Yeah I don’t agree with the ads take at all, but I don’t think the commentary was toxic or harassing.

            • Sentient Loom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
              102·
              10 months ago

              Yeah, quite the opposite. Izzy was fairly stating an opinion and other people were being cruel and borderline toxic in their responses (nothing to warrant bans anywhere, though).

            • El Barto@lemmy.world
              6·
              10 months ago

              Thanks!

              Edit: Hm. It gives me a server error. Bummer.

              Edit 2: Never mind. Opening in private mode did the trick.

            • DreadPotato
              2·
              10 months ago

              WTF!? That’s the most ridiculous ban I’ve ever heard of…toxic behavior my ass, those mods definitely have some stake in sync and the revenue it generates or something and got mad. Childish powertripping behavior banning people for the types of comments izzy have in that thread.

      • BlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.world
        38·
        10 months ago

        Do apps like Sync require hosting of some kind? Almost any free app should have ads in it unless you want a paid version which doesn’t. People should be paid for their work.

    • a4ng3l@lemmy.world
      18·
      10 months ago

      I put my money on the ads comment and someone concerned had a few words with admins.