• OneMeaningManyNames
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    167 months ago

    This “instance tribalism” is beneath me. You can’t ignore this comment, it will live rent free in your head.

      • OneMeaningManyNames
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        87 months ago

        What is the real joke is categorizing people by which Lemmy instance they sign up to, and justifying it with a weak truism that “people self select for communities”. I believe it is utterly stupid, and t can also be motivated. In Lemmy.ml I have met some of the brighter minds of our generation.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          97 months ago

          I don’t categorize people from any other instance, but .ml is on a whole other level spreading their toxicity. It’s like a tankie factory.

          • OneMeaningManyNames
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            87 months ago

            In all good faith, I am an anarchist who found ml randomly from some Privacy/Open Source searches. I signed up because I thought it was cool to be admitted in the flagship instance and I liked the anti-bigotry guidelines. Then I found out about all the drama, and I have zero fucks to give about inter-instance beefs. ML let’s me be, and I had no serious issues so far, I mostly like the crowd there, coming from Reddit even more so.

            • @[email protected]
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              Here’s the thing though, you’ll be unable to convince us that .ml aren’t stupid shitheads because we’re here too, we see them too, we talk to them too and share in the experience just like you do, some (like me) going on 3y+ now. You can’t fool us because we experience it firsthand, you can only succeed in convincing us that you don’t see the problem because you’re one of “the problem.”

              • OneMeaningManyNames
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                47 months ago

                because you’re one of “the problem.”

                I always aspired to be a problem. But see you have no justification for this statement. You are just lumping together everyone who shares a lemmy.ml address without an iota of data other than your personal impressions. This is just plain lamentable.

                Having said that, I hold extreme views right enough, since I don’t think there is such a thing as a middle ground to fascism. Do you see my 100% no-pasaran as a problem? And if yes, how low are you willing to stoop before setting your priorities right?

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                  To borrow a quote from Kolank in this very thread:

                  You might not be an idiot, but you’re wearing a T-shirt that says “I AM AN IDIOT” in bold letters across your chest. Maybe change your shirt.

                  .ml is that T-shirt. I hope you get the help you need.

              • OneMeaningManyNames
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                57 months ago

                This is moronic, and I shouldn’t validate it with an answer. There are tons of trans users in ml and I hardly think any of them holds any favourable views on him.

  • @[email protected]
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    That’s a bit harsh if you ask me. Back in 2021 there wasn’t many Lemmy servers for register.

    You can scroll through my 1.400 comments and don’t find a tankie-like comment.

    Btw. Lemmy.ml is the dev server, every new update and feature starts here.

  • @[email protected]
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    77 months ago

    whats wrong with lemmy.ml? i tried bunch of different instances last month, and fedaration works best on this one, when i use other instances i cant even see the posts on some small communities i follow

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    1. Why does everyone have beef with lemmy.ml
    2. Why don’t you just block the instance

    Edit: thank you for real responses, got so used to be people getting pissed for no reason on social media that I was genuinely surprised to check Lemmy and see a bunch of genuine answers with no butthurt to be seen

      • Possibly linux
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        87 months ago

        The mods of that community are communists. They seem to mod in good faith but keep that in mind.

    • jkozaka
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      The ml in lemmy ml means marxism-leninism, it’s maintained by the lemmy devs so it has lots of “normal” users too. Some people associate lemmy.ml with “tankie” viewpoints.

      • @[email protected]
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        117 months ago

        The ml in lemmy ml means marxism-leninism

        It means Mali and was chosen because it was cheap/free

        • @[email protected]OP
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          97 months ago

          chosen because it was cheap

          Um nah, there are a LOT of cheap ass TLDs, hell even .com TLDs are only $10-20 a YEAR

          It might not actually mean marxism-leninism (then again, who the hell knows, we have .zip TLDs now ffs), but it sure does to the .ml admins

          • @[email protected]
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            Back 3y ago the users claimed it did mean marxist-leninist (or rather if we must be pedantic, that the TLD does mean Mali but they chose it because it meant marxist-leninist to them.) They stopped around the time of the exodus (read: they put on a mask to trap unsuspecting redditors) and they’ve ramped back up since everyone defederated hex and grad (my guess, those users created .ml alts specifically to proselytize to the unwilling like Evangelical roaches once their supply to feed their victim complex dried up.)

            History for posterity’s sake.

        • @[email protected]
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          207 months ago

          You’re both right!

          It is Mali’s domain, and Marxist-Leninists choose that domain to work out of because of the initialism.

          Kinda like why BIOT’s domain is so popular with the tech folks.

      • ArxCyberwolf
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        The ml stands for Mali, which is the country the instance domain is registered to. The Marxist-Leninist connection is a happy coincidence for them.

    • OpenStars
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      17 months ago

      Lemmy has a very different community than Reddit - here, people are often outright kind.

      In part that’s a large reason for the beef with Lemmy.ml, e.g. recently a mod there removed comments for a user over a misunderstanding in a game, and in the process said that they (the MOD!) wanted to shoot them (the OP), doubling down and even tripping down to say “I hope you die soon”. (Described in more detail here.)

      It is ironic that one of the very first Lemmy instances, and also being the one whose admins are also the developers of the Lemmy sourcecode, is so much less like the rest of the people on Lemmy, and more like Reddit. But it is what it is.

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      Why does everyone have beef with lemmy.ml

      The admins and mods cultivate a community of genocide denial and authoritarian apologism, which many users on the instance then buy into.

      Why don’t you just block the instance

      Instance blocking only blocks communities, not users, who still show up whenever there’s a Chinese genocide to deny or a Russian atrocity to “WHATABOUT”, or a non-Western aligned dictator to “BOTHSIDES”.

      My current favorite is Taliban-simping.

      • @[email protected]
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        167 months ago

        When I accidentally blocked an instance, any comment from a user on that instance would be replaced by a message like “you have blocked this instance and so will not see this comment.” I don’t know if that’s a feature of my client, Connect, or of lemmy itself.

    • balderdash
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      In my experience, the mods on lemmy.ml are particularly biased. Like it’s okay to joke about American school shootings but not about abortions biased. But after a while I just stopped posting there. (I barely post to lemmy at all now, but that’s another story.)

      • Possibly linux
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        77 months ago

        I’m pretty sure making jokes about shootings is worse that jokes about abortions.

        Honestly they are both inappropriate

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          Reasonable people can disagree about the rules, the point is the mods are inconsistent.

          (But seriously, do you really want to say one is worse than the other?)

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      27 months ago

      Lemmy.ml is admin’d and moderated mostly by Marxists, and the liberal side of Lemmy is hostile to that. That’s the principle contradiction, everything else stems from that core issue.

    • @[email protected]
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      117 months ago

      Your comment has been removed for including carnist hate words. We don’t use words that glorify murder like the “b” word.

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            Tbf, guess what the comms I got banned from are, and guess why? Vegan subs, “carnist propaganda.”

            I’m just saying, don’t make a post bemoaning “why do people hate vegans” and then ban the guy saying “because they often behave like evangelical christians.” I got kicked out of church for much the same reason, ironically.

          • @[email protected]
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            117 months ago

            Nah, one of my kids are vegetarian and I cook to support them. I have no issues with vegans. I see how it came across that way though.

            I suspect you must have missed the .ml vegan community drama a couple months ago. Take every bad stereotype about vegans and ramp it to 11. Everything was in bad faith. It bled into a couple different communities.

    • @[email protected]
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      I choose not to block the instance because there is a very small group on there that have non-political discussions that I enjoy, same with hexbear.

      I also don’t like creating an echo chamber where all I hear is what I want to hear. Hearing from the other side, as disgusting as their viewpoints can be, at least let’s me know how they think.

      • Eyedust
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        97 months ago

        I like this view, because I have zero idea what I just walked in on. This account is just 16 days old and I’m just here to chat non-politics and doomscroll. And by 16 days old I mean like 4 because their acceptance email got sent to spam and I didn’t notice it until then.

        Tbh, I had no idea there were even factions or drama among the instances.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          You should make an account on another instance, if you don’t like the heavy hand of defederation of .world, lemmy.sdf.org is a good one and sh.itjust.works is another

          There’s also this community if you want to see for yourself the kind of behavior the admins and mods of .ml support, encourage and even participate in [email protected]

          • Eyedust
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            37 months ago

            Honestly, that’s what I’m currently doing. I’ve always chuckled at the cleverness of the name sh.itjust.works. I started on .world, but I forgot to migrate my 2fa because I switched from Google Authenticator to an open source one on a new phone and didn’t take my lemmy token for some damn reason.

            I’m only switching because I’m a neutral entity online when it comes to politics and identity. I use the internet to escape that, not dive into it. I don’t mind seeing it, I just move along and let people be people. I’d rather not be potentially tied to an image or faction by association; its nothing against .ml or anything.

            • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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              77 months ago

              Lemmy.ml admins will delete anything that doesn’t support China or Russia, and they’ll also delete anything that speaks positively of Western countries or concepts. Then they’ll purge the logs so that there’s no evidence that they’re censoring basically everything.

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          I started on .ml, and left after a couple months when I realized I was the only person on the instance who wasn’t a tanky fully committed to arguing with every post I see. They seem to have toned down a bit after getting defederated a couple times, but there are a lot of extremists on that instance, and they’re very loud. I felt like I was in a Chinese political re-education camp half the time.

      • Scrubbles
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        137 months ago

        I don’t agree with their tankie views, but it does force me to see other views. However I usually just eyeroll and move on.

        If I see racism or hate though that’s an immediate block.

      • @[email protected]OP
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        It isn’t literally the entire instance.

        Maybe not, but when the admins and mods are part of the problem, it becomes pervasive.

      • Possibly linux
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        67 months ago

        In my experience it is pretty much the entire instance. All the sane people moved to other places.

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      Well, if literally everyone I’ve tried to get to sign up but it didn’t take are to be believed, it’s the tankies. I try to explain they can use keywords to at least limit it but by then they’re mad about me “hanging out at a nazi bar” and explaining “no they’re really more Nazbols” somehow just isn’t helping my case. Even when they give it a second shot (rare) they quit when they figure out “rule 2 be nice” means “you can’t say anything we don’t like even if you’re nice and we’re going to be insufferable cunts with impunity because our admins are hypocrites that back us.”

    • GHiLA
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      Instant judging based on first impression.

      I can’t tell you how many conversations start with:

      “LET ME GUESS…”

      That and the constant holier-than-thou one-upping(which has admittedly gotten a teensy bit better, but only a little).

  • @[email protected]
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    i joined .ml as it was the first instance i come across when trying lemmy out. Iv heard the admins are tankies but to be honest i dont actually know what a tankie is. i just use lemmy to look at memes and follow foss communities. i try to block all political stuff as i want to enjoy my exprience and stay ignorant to the politics here.

    • @[email protected]
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      167 months ago

      But unlike Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Page, the good folks at .ml did nothing wrong.

        • Communist
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          77 months ago

          I have never seen .ml people engage in genocide apologia. They’re fond of authoritarian governments which I find distasteful, but they aren’t pro-genocide.

          • @[email protected]
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            97 months ago

            Ask them about the Uyghur genocide or the ongoing genocide of Ukrainians or the Holodomor or the deportation of the Crimean Tatars or etc etc etc etc

          • Dragon Rider (drag)
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            Drag has seen many .mls say “Democrats are Republicans are exactly the same.”

            The difference between Harris 2024 vs Trump 2024 is one genocide vs three. That’s millions of lives.

            Drag has seen many .mls deny the loss of millions of Palestinian, Ukrainian, and transgender lives to push their agenda.

            Genocide denial is wrong.

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      The lemmy.ml instance is known to have admins, mods and users that spread the promotion, praise and propaganda of dictatorships and other authoritarian governments, bigotry, racism and transphobia. Even when there are hard facts against them.

      • OBJECTION!
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        Ooh hard facts? I love hard facts! Which hard facts are you talking about?

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          Allowing a fascist to become dictator of the USA will get millions more people genocided than voting for a liberal.

          Telling the truth about a liberal, when that truth contains a call to action not to vote against fascism, will get millions more people genocided than shutting up about a liberal.

          • OBJECTION!
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            millions more people genocided

            That’s quite a claim. If the US is set to genocide millions of people, then as people at risk of being victims of that, surely we should be treating the US government as the primary threat to our safety, correct?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          137 months ago

          How about China is, in fact, a dictatorship for starters. The Communist in “Chinese Communist Party” is just there for show.

          • OBJECTION!
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            How about China is, in fact, a dictatorship for starters

            That could be true. But I wonder, in general, what is the process for determining whether a country is a dictatorship or not, from the outside? China claims to be a democracy and holds elections, like just about every other country under the sun. Of course, not every country with elections is actually a democracy, but if we’re talking “hard facts” I think we need to be able to point to specific, objective things.

            The Communist in “Chinese Communist Party” is just there for show.

            Isn’t the Chinese Communist Party the single largest self-identifying communist party in the world? Shouldn’t that factor in, like, at least a little bit into our standards for what defines a communist party? Regardless, this is kind of just your subjective opinion, isn’t it? Again, what specific, objective standards are you looking at to distinguish between “real” communism and “fake” communism?

          • @[email protected]
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            China is a capitalistic country with a state guidance in their industrial policy and a dictator in the helm.

            They don’t really even have anything in regards to a national health care.

      • @[email protected]
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        When I first got lemmy, I think I signed up to .ml but after a while I couldn’t log in so I made a .world acc

    • Cowbee [he/they]
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      Lemmy.ml is admin’d and moderated by mostly Marxists. That’s the principle reason, everything else stems from hostility towards Marxism and Marxists.