• Unknown1234_5@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago
    1. Why does everyone have beef with lemmy.ml
    2. Why don’t you just block the instance

    Edit: thank you for real responses, got so used to be people getting pissed for no reason on social media that I was genuinely surprised to check Lemmy and see a bunch of genuine answers with no butthurt to be seen

    • PugJesus@lemmy.world
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      Why does everyone have beef with lemmy.ml

      The admins and mods cultivate a community of genocide denial and authoritarian apologism, which many users on the instance then buy into.

      Why don’t you just block the instance

      Instance blocking only blocks communities, not users, who still show up whenever there’s a Chinese genocide to deny or a Russian atrocity to “WHATABOUT”, or a non-Western aligned dictator to “BOTHSIDES”.

      My current favorite is Taliban-simping.

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      19 days ago

      The ml in lemmy ml means marxism-leninism, it’s maintained by the lemmy devs so it has lots of “normal” users too. Some people associate lemmy.ml with “tankie” viewpoints.

      • ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
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        The ml stands for Mali, which is the country the instance domain is registered to. The Marxist-Leninist connection is a happy coincidence for them.

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        19 days ago

        The ml in lemmy ml means marxism-leninism

        It means Mali and was chosen because it was cheap/free

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          You’re both right!

          It is Mali’s domain, and Marxist-Leninists choose that domain to work out of because of the initialism.

          Kinda like why BIOT’s domain is so popular with the tech folks.

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          19 days ago

          chosen because it was cheap

          Um nah, there are a LOT of cheap ass TLDs, hell even .com TLDs are only $10-20 a YEAR

          It might not actually mean marxism-leninism (then again, who the hell knows, we have .zip TLDs now ffs), but it sure does to the .ml admins

          • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            Back 3y ago the users claimed it did mean marxist-leninist (or rather if we must be pedantic, that the TLD does mean Mali but they chose it because it meant marxist-leninist to them.) They stopped around the time of the exodus (read: they put on a mask to trap unsuspecting redditors) and they’ve ramped back up since everyone defederated hex and grad (my guess, those users created .ml alts specifically to proselytize to the unwilling like Evangelical roaches once their supply to feed their victim complex dried up.)

            History for posterity’s sake.

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      I choose not to block the instance because there is a very small group on there that have non-political discussions that I enjoy, same with hexbear.

      I also don’t like creating an echo chamber where all I hear is what I want to hear. Hearing from the other side, as disgusting as their viewpoints can be, at least let’s me know how they think.

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        I don’t agree with their tankie views, but it does force me to see other views. However I usually just eyeroll and move on.

        If I see racism or hate though that’s an immediate block.

      • Possibly linux@lemmy.zip
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        The mods of that community are communists. They seem to mod in good faith but keep that in mind.

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      Their mods behave like Russian commissars. Their users go along with it.

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        It isn’t literally the entire instance.

        Maybe not, but when the admins and mods are part of the problem, it becomes pervasive.

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        In my experience it is pretty much the entire instance. All the sane people moved to other places.

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        Yeah, Hexbear is the worst. I would say exploding heads, but they’re gone now.

    • balderdash@lemmy.zip
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      In my experience, the mods on lemmy.ml are particularly biased. Like it’s okay to joke about American school shootings but not about abortions biased. But after a while I just stopped posting there. (I barely post to lemmy at all now, but that’s another story.)

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        I’m pretty sure making jokes about shootings is worse that jokes about abortions.

        Honestly they are both inappropriate

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          Reasonable people can disagree about the rules, the point is the mods are inconsistent.

          (But seriously, do you really want to say one is worse than the other?)

    • JaymesRS@literature.cafe
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      Your comment has been removed for including carnist hate words. We don’t use words that glorify murder like the “b” word.

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            Nah, one of my kids are vegetarian and I cook to support them. I have no issues with vegans. I see how it came across that way though.

            I suspect you must have missed the .ml vegan community drama a couple months ago. Take every bad stereotype about vegans and ramp it to 11. Everything was in bad faith. It bled into a couple different communities.

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            Tbf, guess what the comms I got banned from are, and guess why? Vegan subs, “carnist propaganda.”

            I’m just saying, don’t make a post bemoaning “why do people hate vegans” and then ban the guy saying “because they often behave like evangelical christians.” I got kicked out of church for much the same reason, ironically.

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      Lemmy has a very different community than Reddit - here, people are often outright kind.

      In part that’s a large reason for the beef with Lemmy.ml, e.g. recently a mod there removed comments for a user over a misunderstanding in a game, and in the process said that they (the MOD!) wanted to shoot them (the OP), doubling down and even tripping down to say “I hope you die soon”. (Described in more detail here.)

      It is ironic that one of the very first Lemmy instances, and also being the one whose admins are also the developers of the Lemmy sourcecode, is so much less like the rest of the people on Lemmy, and more like Reddit. But it is what it is.