no, I'm subbed to many communities on .ml
I have the instance blocked. Nice thing about Lemmy, you can vote with your attention. When toxic bubbles pop up, you can ignore them en masse. Any collateral blocking doesn’t bother me. [insert Nazi party meme]
I try to share links to other instance’s communities if there’s similar ones that aren’t drastically smaller. This is because it’s very easy to be banned on many ml communities as has been documented and posted many times
Not exclusively, but I do think twice before posting to a community hosted there, and actively seek out alternatives if possible. The only two I haven't found alternatives for are c/crows and c/freecad.
Yep. To a certain extent I don’t care what your political views are, but if you’re always trolling and putting them up in my face. And have no integrity rules wise, I’m blocking.
I'm more of an anarchist and I've not had issues with hexbear or .ml, though I don't block lemmygrad I'm not subbed to most of their communities mostly because sectarianism bothers me.
I feel like I always have to check if I'm posting on something that's on .world because even relatively mild off-color humor can get removed as "incivility" if it rubs a mod the wrong way.
I refrain from participating in and even from looking at any community that generates anxiety and/or anger, or that encourage or don't oppose what I consider destructive or hostile behaviors. I consider time too precious to waste mine with the kind of persons who enjoy those things.
It is not related to any specific place, though. It's mostly a question of the persons participating and of the moderators.
I think it's generally best to host communities on politically neutral instances
Personally, I don't. I get from your story that you seem to have been abusively banned, and from the comments that it doesn't seem like an isolate case. But while that might deter me from making an account there, or at most from having a community hosted there, it's not like anything bad comes to me from merely interacting with .ml content. The only servers worth blocking in my opinion are those full of spammers, or of content I'd personally hate to see in any situation.
Interestingly enough, I don't really have issues with lemmy.ml myself
I never brought up political topics on any of their communities, so I am fine until now
That instance got blocked from me a while ago together with Hexbear and Lemmygrad.
yup, blocked that instance.
it's controlled by one or a very small group of people, and none of the rules are followed.
Lemmy.ml is the only instance block I have, after seeing too many illiberal shit takes, bad faith arguments and socialist astroturf posts.
My instance quickly defederated from HexBear and LemmyGrad which is just fine by me, it's helpful most of the bad eggs are concentrated in just a few places.
While I have not blocked the instance (yet), I purposely try not to post anything on any community hosted there and rather look for alternatives. Sometimes it's easier to comment and or post on an ml instance due to it being larger in user size such as the !privacy@lemmy.ml vs !privacy@lemmy.world - but in these cases I will crosspost too.
Whichever instance you choose, someone will have complaints about it. Personally I don't have issues with .ml, but there are quite a few "tech"-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.
It's all a question of which subset of human stupidity you're willing to deal with. Because all humans are stupid, we're just different in how and where we express it.
but there are quite a few “tech”-oriented instances over which my trigger finger is itching on the site ban trigger.
Which ones? Lemmy.zip, lemdro.id, programming.dev?
I'm not going to name them. The point of this isn't to expose which instances I dislike, but rather to show that every instance has its fans and its antifans.
I guess there's a difference between not liking an instance, and the mods or admins power tripping and not following their own rules.
Sh.itjust.works for instance seems appreciated by almost everyone, except maybe for their name
Depends. I've reccomened this before too, but I keep both world and ml "World News" communities because even though they're defederated, having both seems to encompass a better range of sources and topics.
If you move sim racing, would you mind replying to me to let me know? I follow the current one just cause I think sim racing is neat. If it gets moved I'd love to follow the new one
(Totally fine if that's too much work :)
We'll probably post there so you should see it :)
Thanks!
Have a good one man! 😊
I wish that political ideology wasn't such a thing to worry about on Lemmy. It's sadly easy to find extremist content, even on the homepage, when you're not logged in.
I don’t refrain from participating in Lemmy.ml community unless the mods of that community act like the admins do. The majority of users aren’t my issue with Lemmy.ml at least on the non political communities, it’s the admin’s suppression of opposition
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The rules may be more established as time goes on, but it's important to have a foundation to work on.
1. Follow the rules of Lemmy.world - These rules are the same as Mastodon.world's rules, which can be found here.
2. Include a community title and description in your post title. - A following example of this would be New Communities - A place to post new communities all over Lemmy for discovery and promotion.
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FAQ:
Q: Why do I get a 404?
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A: This is a current known issue with large communities. Sometimes it does get posted, but just continues spinning, but sometimes it doesn't get posted and continues spinning. If it doesn't actually get posted, the best thing to do is try later. However, only some people seem to be having this problem at the moment.
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