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I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (23 children)

Here's a list of a few .ml communities and potential replacements:

Side note the main issue with .ml is transparency. It's fine if the admins of an instance implement whatever rules they want in their instance; however, once they start enforcing hidden rules disguised as violations of the listed rules, they're being liars and treating the users as stupid things to be herded, not as human beings.

EDIT: as people noticed I'm not including .world comms to not encourage even further concentration of activity into the largest instance. Decentralisation is important. Also I'm adding stuff that you guys suggest.

* for specialised memes, as the category is rather large:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

Hey. Hey, people. Just selecting each link and subscribing will vastly improve your experience here in the fediverse. Do it now, before you forget!

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I had the audacity to say that the deaths of Tiannanmen's Square were inexcusable, no matter who started the violence, and my comment was removed under instance rule 1 (bigotry).. like wat 😂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

I dared to say that the illegal, violent invasion of the foreign nation of Ukraine was bad. Turns out NATO made them do that, as well as rape and torture all those people and steal the children. Who knew... 🤷‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

The irony of so-called Marxist-Leninists refusing to be self-critical...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_and_self-criticism_(Marxism%E2%80%93Leninism)

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, typical lemmy.ml . They have a hard time understanding that you can support a certain ideology without necessarily turning a blind eye to everything that people claim to be doing for the sake of said ideology, or that any criticism against their actions is automatically false.

I remember you, by the way. You were already an old Lemmy user when I joined in, 3y ago!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My OG account is 6 years old 👴

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

You are our past

Our present

Our future

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I suggest you add [email protected] to the news section. Beehaw isn't accessible to people on instances they've defederated from or instances that have defederated them.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The .ml transparency thing is a symptom, not a root cause. The admins like and even participate in the .ml rhetoric. The rules ambiguity is intentional.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We could argue that the root cause is that .ml admins pretending that their instance's target audience is wider than it actually is.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago

Their target audience is Westerner suckers gullible enough to have their opinions manipulated

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Do they though?

I was rejected when I first tried to sign up (when I was entirely new to lemmy) and they're turning at least one user away now

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

It’s a great advertisement for communism that’s for sure. They haven’t even gotten real power and it already resembles the worst of what communism offers. They’re a bunch of wannabe Ceausescu’s.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 day ago

the main issue with .ml is ~~transparency~~ authoritarian propaganda with full-throated support from the admins

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (4 children)

memes:

and for more specialized memes:

world news: I realize you're avoiding lemmy.world to promote decentralization which is why you're listing [email protected], but note that beehaw defederated itself from lemmy.world and from several others?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

I've added all of them to the list, thanks!

Regarding [email protected], now there's an alternative there.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago

Mmhmm, mmhmm - secret laws, secret trials - definitely not authoritarian behavior at all.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If they were banning people for shit posting on a communism community I wouldn't have a problem. Its when you get removed banned from all communities because you said you don't like there crappy memes

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or even if they had an instance-wide rule saying "don't criticise Russia or China here". It's fine as long as the rules are clear.

But no, instead they libel the users criticising either, claiming that they violated rule #1 (TL;DR "no bigots"). Even when the criticism is clearly against the government.

And then you get a bunch of 11yos eating that ban message for breakfast, because they're ~~full of gullibleness and don't get the purpose of this utterance~~ dumb fucks.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Tbf, that admin telling someone to kill themselves wasn't exactly a high mark for their ethics imho.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

[email protected] has over 70 times as many subscribers as the other two asklemmy communities combined.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm avoiding linking lemmy.world instances. We shouldn't put even more eggs in that basket, you know.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But maybe we shouldn't throw out the few eggs Lemmy does have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Did they suggest moving to the random.trsh website? This is still Lemmy, it's still federalized and non-corporate and decentralized.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Nobody is throwing eggs out. I'm recommending one basket instead of another, that's it.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

An odd choice on their part is dessalines upvoting every comment that corresponds to a removal or ban. Feels almost as though they’ve Jerry-rigged their moderation code to an extreme degree in order to keep up with the day job levels of moderation they’re doing.

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