That’s why I’m on Lemmy.World. I made a new account as soon as I found out they were removing posts from people for orientalism. It’s great the modlog is so transparent. The greatest thing about having instances run by different people unassociated with each other is you can just do that… go to a different instance where things are much more aligned to you morally.
You have less to worry about here than you do on a place like say Reddit where they can do it pretty discretely and you’d be none the wiser until it happened to you.
Looking at lemmy.world/instances, it explicitly federates with lemmygrad.ml
Kinda worrying to me that the two biggest instances link to the biggest tankie instances.
You can just block all lemmygrad’s community, and if their users bothering other instance’s community, let the mod block them. lemmyworld is free to choose which instances to federate like you are free to block all user/community you dislike. That is the beauty of federation. cheers.
The instance federates with pretty much all other instances as far as I understand… If you have a problem with that, simply join another instance that blocks instances you don’t like. Or better yet, create your own instances with your own rules and block any instance you don’t like…
There is no reason to cry and do nothing when the entire point of lemmy is about giving you the power…
This place federates with a bunch of Nazi instances, strange how you weren’t bothered by that 🤔
What’s are lolicon rocks, and what differentiates them from regular rocks? 🤔
They are geologically young: under 1 million years old.
It’s interesting how the tankies and the neocons always immediately run screaming to calling everyone who disagrees with them a pedophile. It’s almost like y’all have a lot in common.
It’s interesting how the libs are in hysterics over t-t-t-tankies, but are totally fine with anime child porn and Nazis.
Please post proof of nazi’s. I see no Nazi’s here
I didn’t say there are Nazis here. Some of the instances this places federates with are Nazi, such are freespeechextremist (a Mastodon instance), where the first thing I saw was someone using the N and K words. I also didn’t mean to say that the person I initially responded to is a pedophile, but I did mean to say that they have screwed up priorities if they’d rather whine about “tankies” than even mention an instance that has “lolicon” in the name.
I didn’t say there were Nazis here. Some of the instances this place federates with are Nazi instances, such as freespeechextremist (a Mastodon instance), where the first thing I saw was someone using the N and K words. I also didn’t mean to say that the person I initially responded to is a pedophile, but I did mean to say that they have screwed up priorities if they’d rather whine about “tankies” while not even mentioning an instance that has “lolicon” in the name.
Everything’s federated after any user tries looking at something there, and only gets defederated after the admin adds it to a block list. If the admin’s not aware of the noncery, they won’t have defederated it yet. If it’s not defederated relatively quickly, I imagine most people here will switch to an instance that gets rid of things like that more quickly.
As for why it’s not been noticed but the tankies have, it’ll be because it’s really easy to accidentally run into lemmygrad.ml posts, as they’re getting upvoted and commented on faster.
Every time, man
You can block subs yourself, right?
I see lemmy.world as the most unrestricted and neutral instance now.
I just won’t post on the tankie instances like I didn’t post on the tankie subreddits. And if the instance I’m on starts censoring like that, I’ll make an account on a different one.
Am I the only one that chose an instance based on defederation with lemmygard? I had a lemmy.ml account and it got annoying quite quickly
I’m on an instance that doesn’t. It’s annoying, but the main issue is in the All feed since I don’t exactly subscribe to lemmygrad communities ;p.
I’ve had fairly decent luck just blocking any communities that show up from there. I can’t wait until I can granularly block all communities from an instance, tbh ^.^
Idk I also remember a lot of trolls from there an unrelated posts. But it was like a year ago or so, and from here I see nothing.
I’m wondering, when my instance that unfederated lemmygard pulls a subLem (community) from an instance that’s federated with them, lets say /c/[email protected], does it filter out people from lemmygard when it caches said subLem? That’ll explain why I never see anyone from there anymore.
I think you will see old comments but not any new ones… maybe…
I have more important things on my mind than internet drama. Don’t really care
As a Mexican I’ve been dealing with stupid cartel blogs my whole life, I don’t really care anymore. I just vibe with the 99.9% of people that is sane.
What’s a cartel blog?
“last week at Cartel:”
I imagine so many funny things lol
What do those cartel blogs look like?
Please tell us about cartel blogs, it seems like a bad idea for an illegal organization.
We’re gonna need more info on this
Don’t like it, don’t read it. The price of freedom is that it is freedom for everybody even for those you (or I) don’t think should be free.
But the point of censorship is: if THEY don’t like it, YOU don’t read it because you don’t know it exists.
You can see what instances your server has blocked at {instance_url}/instances, there’s also a link in the footer. If you’re unhappy with your home instance blocking too much content, you can always make an account elsewhere and sub to the same communities as before. Account export is a feature that’s currently requested on the Lemmy Github so maybe that process will become easier soon.
Well, lemmygrad for sure is run by tankies, that’s kinda the point. Most of it doesn’t matter. It’s not like they can control anything that happens on other instances.
Don’t underestimate my vitamin B12 deficiency induced mind powers!
Is … is this a thing? B12?
The mind powers probably aren’t but the vitamin is; as I understand it, basically the reason why all the vitamin numbers and letters are wacky is cuz we weren’t great at identifying them; for B, it turned out that a bunch of things did similar stuff so we called them B1, B2, B12 etc., where as some other letters were reclassified.
Well today I had someone support the Tienanmen Square massacre, another say the war of aggression in Ukraine is a denazification campaign, argue that nothing is happening untoward to Uighur’s in China and assert that Pussy Riot “is a CIA op” lol. Yeah. It’s over run with brain dead tankies. They suck. That instance will get defederated eventually if Lemmy actually takes off, and good riddance
I joined via lemmy.world because at the time the stats just looked favorable, with the limited knowledge I had (uptime mostly).
As someone with experience in software engineering you learn to differentiate between the product and the dev.
It’s especially easy with Lemmy, because every instance has its own vibe it seems. Would I join lemmygrad or how that instance is called? Probably not, but because it’s the users who in the end define the direction of an instance I see no problem.
Freedom of speech is important and if all those tanky instances are about is their agenda, they will end up in an echo chamber sooner or later, as more regular people migrate and simply drown them out.
That was the main reason why I switched to lemmy.world; never looked back. Plus, Ruud (the admin of this instance, runs also a Mastodon instance) and actually upgrades the server so it can handle all new traffic. Lemmy.ml is often down because it can’t take the heavy load.
Please excuse my ignorance: what’s a “tanky/tankies”?
The term originates from controversy among UK Communist labor-unionists over support of the Soviet Union, in its violent occupation of dissenting Communist countries Hungary and Czechoslovakia — when Khrushchev sent tanks to suppress popular revolutions against Soviet control of their countries.
Notably, this was Communist-on-Communist violence: the revolutionary Hungarian and Czechoslovak regimes were still run by their Communist Parties. Thus “tankies” were, originally, Communist labor-unionists who endorse or tolerate violent suppression of other Communists to secure the power of the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
More recently it’s been used to refer to supporters of authoritarianism in China, which is associated with tanks by way of the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre.
It’s a term mostly used to distinguish left-authoritarians from left-anti-authoritarians, particularly in the context of the cold war West. ‘Tankies’ notably tend to defend their left-ideology by talking up major authoritarian or totalitarian regimes (like Stalin’s or Mao’s) that also called themselves Socialist (despite such claims being problematic in doctrinaire terms). Originally used to describe the self-proclaimed communist/Stalin apologist, the modern tankie supports pretty much any authoritarian regime that opposes the West
Derisive term for communist authoritarian who support left wing ideology and also state violence to maintain their power.
Common themes include whitewashing Mao and Stalin history, and dismissing current state sanctioned violence against minorities in “communist” countries.
Informative, thank you
The ideological leaning of the developers means nothing on a federated network. What you care about is knowing the ideology of who runs your instance.
You can just as easily fall into a right wing echo chamber by joining the wrong instance. And one that censors any kind of pro Russia or pro China sentiment, which is equally bad, in my opinion.
Propaganda can come from both sides. Just keep your eyes open.
I joined with lemmy.fmhy.ml… am I fucked?
oh no, i should have been specific. i was talking about the popular @lemmy.ml instance & its communities, lemmy.fmhy.ml seems to be a different instance just with a similar name/url.
Thanks for the clarification, now I feel better!
Quick lesson on how urls work. When I purchase a domain name you usually purchase something like domain.com, domain.net ect. So once you own domain.com you have control of creating what are called sub domains. sub.domain.com or sub.sub.domain.com. you can tell that lemmy.ml and fmhy.ml are unrelated because of this.
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Not from what I can tell. I don’t see why a piracy focused instance would bother aligning with anything politically
My thoughts are that you should use an instance that is in sync with your ethics. That is the freedom you have with opensource.
I wish. Beehaw isn’t sending out confirmation emails and I can’t find any other ones that block the tankies.
Like I don’t mind communists and socialists, they tend to be great people. But this? “hey everyone come over from reddit! You TOO can be insulted constantly for not adoring Soviet Russia!” It’s an AWFUL look.
The things on Hexbear and Lemmygrad aren’t “communists and socialists” though. They’re just supporting straight up authoritarian regimes simply because they oppose “the west”. It’s just people shilling for Xi Jinping and Putin because they think they somehow still represent Communism.
Read a book, bloodmouth
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it” - John Gilmore
Here’s a discussion about this: https://lemmy.world/post/24798
TLDR :
That post is great and mostly respectful, it has 160 comments at the moment // it is involving hardcore Marxist-Leninist administrators of Lemmy.ml
in my opinion it demonstrate the hypocrisy of those administrators.
