It's not world news over there, it's world "news". The admins and mods of lemmy.ml will allow all manner of, and even post some themselves, pure Russian propaganda over there, it won't be removed and this user won't be banned (they continuously post a bunch of this crap).
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Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
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As long as the devs are running ML Lemmy is going to have a tankie problem. You can defederate all you want, if you're still using their project ML and therefore tankies are going to be the face.
Not necessarily, lemmy.ml can only be the face of Lemmy if we (the wider Fediverse) allow it to be. Because the truth is, most people do not care about who the devs of an open source project are.
Many do currently because a good portion of us lemmings are technical people to begin with, but the less technical folks coming from Reddit aren't going to go to the GitHub or go-to Dessalines wonderful essays page.
But what those people do care about, is what is visible to them through their day to day use, and wide defederation will absolutely take care of that problem
this is why i think lemmy ultimately exists as a proof of concept and not as a final landing place for threaded conversations on the fediverse. there are things i like about it better than other alternatives for this sort of communication, but ultimately any communication solution is going to be designed around how the developers view human interaction, and i'm not much a fan of how dessalines and neutomic see humanity.
Wish you could block entire instances from interacting with your instance
You can if you run your own instance, I've done that before and it's not too hard.