What's going on with the lemmy world and ML infighting (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by metallic_substance@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I've seen several references to some sort of rift between the users of these instances today. What's happening?

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The Lemmy devs run .ml, and were/are part of a community revolving around the contrarian idea that anti-Western dictatorships are actually the good guys and all working together (somehow, despite visibly hating each other a lot of the time).

The basic idea was always going to push some users to other instances, and then the adherents acting like conspiracy theorists often do pushed away a lot more. Some of the most aggressive instances are outright blocked by .world, IIRC.

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 0 points 2 months ago

It's a mid-off

[-] Luci@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago

I block ml users on sight so I didn’t even notice

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[-] lemming@anarchist.nexus 0 points 2 months ago

Oooh a honeypot of group-think users to block. Thanks OP!

[-] adb@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Lemmy.world is a den full of libs who will wholeheartedly approve of any meager band-aid solutions over the festering wounds of our western economic systems, even if it continues to make it worse, provided it’s not quite as terrible as whatever the fascists over the other side of the aisle propose.

Lemmy.ml is a den full of marxist-leninist tankies who will wholeheartedly support any authoritarian and imperialist regime provided it’s an enemy of most imperialist state of them all : the USA.

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