Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
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I don't get it, why is that instance of lemmy bad?
The instance admins of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, who are also the developers of Lemmy, have a wide variety of harmful views including genocide denial, transphobia, and support for authoritarian regimes. They are incredibly ban-happy and spend an unreasonable amount of time removing dissenting opinion from their communities instead of developing the platform. They've got a bunch of people in a complete echo chamber where saying anything critical about their favourite regimes earns you a ban despite there being no rules against it. Their users tend to also be the genocide denying, authoritarian bootlicking type.
100% l. Well said.
Wanting 1% the material evidence of the genocide in Palestine applied to other, western geopolitically convenient "genocides", isn't genocide denial.
Transphobia shouldn't be tolerated, you're free to move to hexbear where the slightest transphobia gets anyone banned
Criticizing the mainstream western position on China is not support for authoritarianism. Support for authoritarianism is doing bothsideism while one side is the biggest oppressor on the face of the earth, which happens to be the side where you live.
Why on earth would I go to Hexbear when I've already made it pretty clear I have a strong distaste for .ml? Hexbear is full of the very same pro-authoritarian types and that instance has an awful reputation for brigading and harassing communities. I've seen this myself the numerous times they attempted to federate with other instances, my own included. No thanks.
I think the problem is how authoritarian it is. It feels like living in Russia or china. If you say anything bad about china, russia, NK, or the moods you are attacked like you are the anticrist and banned.
From my experience I would risk to say many of those accounts are not even "real" people just a lot of ccp or kremlin police. Really zero freedom to express any ideas or even debate
The reason it looks so very similar to the Alt-Right, is because it basically is.
To you, opposing genocide in Palestine and wanting to end US supremacy and western imperialism looks very similar to the Alt-Right.
Your problem is that you don't care when it's the west oppressing people
Not at all. If you don't want anyone to be opressed I would support but anyone knows about reeducation camps, ukranian invasion and I'm not even going to comment on nk... that is just absurd. I'm not defending us just because I don't agree with other peoples oppresion
Btw I'm not american! Just a decent human that want other humans to be free.
You support western colonialism which is orders of magnitude worse than anything you mentioned.
who said that? I literally JUST said the opposite. You ate inputing in me an idea that it's not mine. That's a you problem.
"I live in the most powerful and harmful empire but I reject any system opposing it" amounts to supporting it
do you even know how to read? I said I'm not american
No, you're European, still counts
Am I? Where am I from? You seem to think you know a lot about me. All of it wrong
Keep building that strawman and knocking it down.
Yeah, it's absolutely a pro-dictatorship pro-russian/chinese farm to get their bot accounts comments, upvotes, etc, to push misinformation.
Literally got banned today for saying Putin should pull out of Ukraine and china has live organ farm harvesting in Xin Jiang province.
Edit: spelling. According to some big brain thinkers if you make a typo in the name of the province where people are tortured, it miraculously never happened...
Well, good ban. Disinformation should be banned.
You also seem very concerned for the people of a province whose name you can't correctly spell. Surely not concern trolling
Racism, political extremism, and kinda just assholes.
Please tell me how .ml is racist, and not .world allowing Zionists unbanned
Love the user name! If you browse through the comments, other folks have had the same question answered.
https://lemmy.world/post/29072279
They tend to be so frothing-at-the-mouth emphatically leftist that they're indistinguishable from a CIA program to discredit the left. To be clear, I don't think lemmy.ml is a CIA program, but I can't imagine what they'd do differently if it were.