Idk memes n stuff

bicker* :D

Lol it's ok, they do things purposefully like that to an extent to get that result. Like if you go to Lemmygrad or Hex's homepage its quite clear you're somewhere weird that needs further investigation.

You go-to lemmy.mls homepage and it looks like a normal "privacy focused" instance. Until you innocently comment in support of Ukraine or something and find yourself being dunked on and banned for supporting a "Nazi regime"

I definitely didn't know how heated people were towards .ml when I joined. istg I'm not a tankie.

.world is Shitlibia so you did fine.

And? Better to let them have to engage as a normie instead of having an entire instance astroturfing their BS.

What did we do?

came here to make the exact same 1st statement. .world is quite a bully friendly instance.

Just look at my modlogs from them. Feds through and through.

I know nothing irt sh.itjust.works

Thats not true, lemmygrad and hexbear exist

Jeez what'd I do

Well, there's one that's worse.

Two if you count bootleg mastodon instances.

They do not, Hex and Grad, yes. This is the current homepage of lemmy.ml, nothing indicates them being a Tankie Instance supporting Authoritarian regimes and their misinformation:

Nobody told me all this when I signed up. I was simply instructed to pick an instance, and I did.

This would be a fine sentiment if the feeling were mutual with the .ml admins. Their entire thing is aggressive censorship of ideas they disagree with, so if your ideal is free exchange of ideas, then you support the opposite of that by engaging with them.

What censorship? I have documented evidence of .ml's rampant censorship

If .world is doing their own flavor then where's the receipts?

Also, .world doesn't need .ml, nobody needs .ml, they only have like 2 comms that don't have a non.ml variant that beats them in MAUs

The spread of Russian propaganda and misinformation is in large part the reason for a lot of the right-wing BS. There's been articles and documentation of their Misinformation campaign for at least a decade now

"Russia, shit military, fantastic intelligence service" ~A lemming comment I read once but can't find again

We should not be a party to it's continuing spread

It doesn't work, on Lemmy block is nothing more than a mute, and the instance "block" (mute) does not even affect the individual users of an instance, just hides the comms of that instance from your view

Lemmy's "block" still leaves you open to all manner of brigading that they've been known to do

And it still allows conspiracy theories, propaganda and misinformation to spread and fester and affect users who are unaware

They literally have articles over there spreading the Russian propaganda that Putin is justified in invading Ukraine because it's "full of Nazis"

Besides this is the Threadiverse, there will always be an instance with wide federation if you as an individual choose to open yourself up to that kind of "content"

I can block .ml communities in my GUI. But I can't block its users, unless I go 1 by 1. Blocking the communities is big, but not enough.