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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

news@lemmy.ml restricts saying anything even vaguely anti-russian in a time when Russia is effectively trying destroy the west. At the same time, they're allowing rather blatant anti-west sentiment. And I'm not saying that that's fundamentally bad, but rather that there is no such thing as unbiased.

Reddit sure sucks and needs to die though. But their bias of not supporting murder is somewhat understandable.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But their bias of not supporting murder is somewhat understandable.

Its not murder, it's self defense. A mass murderer was stopped by Luigi, end of story.

[–] i_ben_fine@lemmy.one 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The government has accused Luigi of stopping a mass murderer.

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

And somehow they've spun that as terrorism.

[–] Silk@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I saw the Hammer and Sickle on lemmy.ml and that was enough for me to know that they were probably Campists and Stalinists lol.

I guess it's good Lemmy has the different instances(?) even tho it's a bit annoying.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The beauty is that you can just block the annoying instances. I've blocked lemmy.ml so I don't see their communities, but can still see their users commenting on posts.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Not all of us are happy with it. The Pro-Russia, pro-China posts are enough to make me raise an eyebrow and keep my mouth shut when a mod comes around.

But... it's genuinely one of the better moderated instances. It is quite peaceful compared to other communities. I dont see lemmygrad, I dont see beehaw, it's just, restful

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why I like my instance, the admins are great and we have the same mindset of federation: let the users decide who they want to block and only defederate from a instance if they're hugely problematic or doing something illegal.

I think lemmy.ml is federated with lemmygrad right? I never see their stuff either, it's probably such a small instance that it kinda gets lost from the activity of the bigger and more popular communities.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Yeah on second glance, it is federated with lemmygrad, but I somehow don't see the posts from there. Apparently, I've only blocked one sub from there "GenZedong", but that seems to be enough for me to not see any of their stuff at a ll.

I am currently slowly migrating towards another instance, but I genuinely do feel comfortable on lemmy.ml

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[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I dont see lemmygrad

The default view is subscribed, unless you're browsing all you won't see them unless you already subscribed.

The Pro-Russia, pro-China posts are enough to make me raise an eyebrow and keep my mouth shut when a mod comes around.

I can appreciate this, people can be on a hair trigger sometimes. Personally I like to be able to keep track of what both sides narratives are.

[–] Timbits@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Pro-Russia, pro-China posts are enough to make me raise an eyebrow and keep my mouth shut when a mod comes around.

Just following orders so you can get content?

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

There's going to be Marxists on Lemmy, the lead developers of the software are Marxist-Leninists and some of the largest instances are explicitly Socialist-aligned.

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (23 children)

Great thing about Lemmy is that I can block all instances from lemmy.ml.

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[–] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm, I shit on Russia all the time every chance I get and as far as I know I was never warned about it, even on lemmy.ml

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you do so in a community located on lemmy.ml? Try it, it should be fairly quick, and you'll be banned from communities that you've never even heard of, for violating a rule that is written down nowhere that I can find.

Or maybe after the election seasons, they might not be as quick these days? It might have accomplished its purpose already.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Russia is a reactionary capitalist shit hole, I wish it wasn't but here we are. many such cases

By inconsistently choosing when they will moderate supporting murder and when they won't, they are essentially deciding what murder is okay. And that "should" disqualify them from section 230 protections. It doesn't because section 230 is too broad. But by picking which third party content to allow they are essentially editorializing using other people words.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Vopyr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

news@lemmy.ml restricts saying anything even vaguely anti-russian

Cringe

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