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Funny to see this come around every month or so when a new group of people come in and think "hey this is an interesting sub, let me joint this discussion!" and then come the questions.
In summary: don't go to hexbear, lemmygrad, and the .ml instances, they are silly places
I've actually been using lemmy for a while, I guess I've just been lucky enough to have never comment in one of these in all that time. But live and learn and good to know.
Just happened to me today (not for the first time) when I questioned somebody's idiotic meme with a post that just said "What is this slop?" which was apparently worthy of removal. Even mild criticism is not ok with them because their bubble is very, very thin.
It's fine, whenever it happens it reminds me to block the community and the author. I recommend you do something similar to make Lemmy a nicer place to be.
I know better than to engage with those... people. But sometimes I don't notice the domain on the community I'm reading from the All feed. Wish there was a way to just hide everything from those instances on my feed (without standing up my own instance).
Voyager provides the ability to block whole instances. Is that not default Lemmy functionality? I've been using the Voyager WPA since it was wefwef, so sometimes I forget what's native and what isn't.
Good question, maybe it's possible these days. I know it wasn't when I first joined. I'll do some digging!
That is normal .ml behaviour.
Defederate? 👉👈🥺 (Jokus)
If there were a strong call for it from the userbase...
It would be interesting to see. Most of the tech ml communities have an alternative nowadays ([email protected] , [email protected] , etc.)
You have been site-banned from .ml
Seriously though, if .world defed'd from them that would be so nice. .ml gets awfully mad about it when you bring it up though, almost like they're afraid of missing out on all the .world content despite calling .world all manner of fronts and propaganda outlets lol
At .ml? Oh boy. Did you say that Russia and China aren't communist utopias?
Shit, I guess I really should avoid .ml then considering my own background on China.
I made the bannable error apparently by making my first post there stating that Arab Americans for Trump, sorry for Peace, did shoulder some blame for the 2024 election, provided some stats showing that their efforts likely affect Michigan and that they would have to live with the consequences of their decisions.
.ml is awful, but you'll find a lot of those knee jerk purity types spread all over the lemmyverse.
If you don't want to be treated the way Stalinists treat dissenters, don't voluntarily put yourself in places where Stalinists set the rules.
It wouldn't be a Reddit replacement without power tripping mods.
I caught a ban for stating that Linus Torvalds is legally obliged to respect US sanctions against Russia.
This seems like standard behavior for .ml.
How does US have legal authority over open source or a Finn?
He was born a Finn, but last I checked he is a US citizen and Oregon resident by choice.
In 2004, Torvalds moved with his family from Silicon Valley to Portland, Oregon.
In 2010, Torvalds became a United States citizen and registered to vote in the United States.
US can order Taiwan and NL because they use tech that was licensed by US with that condition. Does GPL have US jurisdiction forbidding contributions?
GPL licensing on Linux has no effect on these sanctions.
Linux is a piece of software, owned by its individual authors and contributors, but published by Linus. Linus makes every decision about what is and is not in Linux.
Here's how the "sanctions" usually work: the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) publishes a list called the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List. This list contains named individuals, businesses, and organizations that are not American (foreigners only. US Citizens are not supposed to be on the list). It is illegal for any US citizen or US business to transact business with anyone named on SDN. There are severe civil and criminal penalties for the US person if they're not doing due diligence to check their international contacts against the list.
Now how does this affect Linux? It doesn't affect Linux the project or any of the code. But it does mean that Linus the person can't accept contributions from SDN persons. Linus's lawyers have advised him that that would be a "business transaction" within the terms of the law.
Could Linus go in court make an argument that this sanctions regime violates his first amendment rights? Maybe. But I guarantee that would be a big hassle for him and Linux Foundation lawyers.
Could Linux the project restructure itself so that Linus the American is not making every decision on every contribution? Yes. But that would be a major change in organization.
And the records on the LKML seem to indicate that Linus and Linux leadership are at least politically indifferent to the sanctions in the first place, and possibly mildly supportive. So I doubt they'll go to any major effort to change things up.
Edit: And finally I want to be clear on this point... Nothing is stopping sanctioned SDN entities from downloading a tarball off of kernel.org and making their own sanctions-busting GPL kernel with blackjack and hookers. That all seems perfectly legal to me.
You literally asked.
How does US have legal authority over open source or a Finn?
My comment was pointing out why he (a Finn) is subject to US law. GPL is GPL, no idea what you're on about there. He is obligated to follow US law.
