It would be nice if other large instances like .world had the cojones to defederate .ml because they're getting tankier by the day. They're almost as bad as lemmygrad. Just because it's a large instance run by the Lemmy devs doesn't mean they should get special treatment. If they're going to allow (read: encourage) crap like this, they should be cut off to prevent it from spreading.

Western chauvinism is when you criticize right-wing strongmen, and the more you criticize the right-wing, the more chauvinist it is.

I learned recently firsthand .ml does not take kindly to the word tankie lol

Good point. Turkey has been a bad-faith member of NATO for years now.

I don't see anything wrong with what you wrote. And what the hell is "western chauvinism" really? Eastern Europe and Western Europe are simply not THAT different culturally.

The only thing I would actually add to your comment (which would obviously get me banned) would be to say that vetoes should not be a thing in NATO...for ANY country.

I once got banned for “BlueAnon nonsense”, and I still have no clue what that means.

It must be getting worse on .ml world news. Either that or they have some new power tripping mods. This is like the 5th post I've seen in 24hrs about being ban from there.

Tankies gonna tankie

I've had cases where I got Hexbear dogpiled, so my comment got deleted. However, the mods still kept the dogpiling comments and I was still getting responses because obviously hexbear was brigading.

Don't show a tankie reason and logic, they meltdown and get very hostile. Weak sorts of folks.

Congrats. I don't have any experience because I have been avoiding and blocking lemmy.ml.

Hoorah, welcome to the club! It is a badge of honor really. I use a separate account to have some discussions on .ml but in the mean time I added lemmy.ml to my instance blocklist and Lemmy has been wonderfull since.

A big issue seems to be that users looking for worldnews get their world news instead of world at lemmy.world..

And yes I sometimes have discussions on .ml as I think some of the extrimist idolization needs to be called out. So that if normal people see such comments they can also read a dissenting viewpoint.

And every now and then, just to tell a tankie that the Uyghur camps are real... Getting banned and doing it again.

Sorry to hear that mate. Same here, made a post about it too. I think it's a few users with an agenda, combined with an automod that carries out the actual ban, and mods who don't review. Discuss. Block (optional). Move on.

Also: as the thread gets active, tankie users may try to hijack your post with comments blaming you for your ban, calling you names/ libtard/ govt bootlicker etc. Ignore these idiots. They come out hot and expect your reaction. Don't drop to their level. Be better.

I don't even know if my instance is federated with them, all the better if not imo.

Looks like someone might have been a bit trigger happy. 😅 Perhaps "dealing with them" got them into a twist. Given how we've "dealt with" some leaders we didn't like in that past.