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I'm hearing Lemmy itself, the .ml instance and some others are ran by Tankies that censor criticism of russia and china. What are your thoughts on this? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Kasrean@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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[-] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

I joined with lemmy.fmhy.ml... am I fucked?

[-] Kasrean@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] epyon22@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] kratoz29@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the clarification, now I feel better!

[-] eric5949@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

This is going to be why Lemmy doesn't take off long term.

[-] CheshireSnake@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I mean, reddit's CEO used to mod that sub. Reddit and redditors were still fine after it blew up. Why are there different standards? The sub may have been banned already, but I doubt spez has changed much. Reddit admins have gotten away with a lot like editing comments, refusing to ban certain subs until there was media coverage, etc. Personally, I haven't encountered any censorship due to political affiliations (yet). And if it happes, I'll change instances.

They don't control the fediverse just as much as they can't control which instance I join/create.

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[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@Kasrean From my experience it's more like a soft censoring. But yea, censoring does exist. I've interacted with Lemmy (specially lemmy.ml initially, since it was the largest instance containing all the communities I needed) even before the Reddit exodus. Back then there were only a handful of people creating content and the narrative they were spinning was something along the line of Look how bad the West is! Now look at how great China is!. Not to mention, the same people are against supporting Ukraine.

The problem was that it was really easy to make anti-russian or anti-china (edit: or to be, somehow racist against these, only by criticizing their governments, although not the same was applied to the anti-US posts - it was totally okay to be anti-America) posts or comments (in mods' views) and you were usually banned for it. Nowadays, tho, the situation is changing, and they get a small dose of their own medicine, lol (but you can still see the comments of these guys, many of them downvoted tho).

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[-] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What is even the purpose to censor info on what I'd assume was a foreign govt? What's the logic?

"Well this late stage communism makes my own ideals look bad?" Laughable and pathetic.

Personally, I don't care. What someone does, politically, with their free time on the internet doesn't affect me, at least in this instance. I'm not givin money to them, keep it movin.. tbh it's their loss if that's how they wanna live.

I'm using lemmy.world

[-] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 4 points 2 years ago

issue would be if the code is compromised as a result mainly. there are other networks on the protocol and others can implement servers as well. its not an exclusive protocol.