And unfortunately lemmy.ml is getting more online traffic recently.
If the discussion is good, what is the problem? Genuine question.
Lemmy.ml is run by people who spread authoritarian propaganda, most likely the CCP. It's a real stain on Lemmy and people shouldn't support or legitimize it in any way.
It's not a good discussion when they ban you in the middle of it for saying NATO is a defensive alliance.
I see this as an absolute win! The point of decentralized social media is that discussion happens across many different linked sites. It doesn't work if lemmy.world is the only big site out there.
Sure have your beef with the admins of another server, but why get upset that discussions are happening there?
It’s only really a problem when comments get removed or people get banned because they have opposing views.
Bans are fine IMO, I don't want tankie shit clogging up my feed. I should be able to block those views and the admin should be allowed to block them from participating if they so choose.
Its about tankies banning non tankies.
The news@lemmyworld mods ~~admins~~ have been banning people for criticizing the MBFC bot, so yeah, let's just keep using bans until this place looks like Reddit again.
Edit: mods, not admins
Pro palestinian comments get removed on lemmy.world. Some people have the same argument as you but about diametrically opposing idealogy
I have not had a single Pro-Palestinian comment get removed from world, and I've had some pretty confrontational conversations in support of Palestinians.
There's definitely not a concerted effort by the admins to suppress Palestinian support. What I'm hearing is you said something dumb that's technically "pro palestinian", and it got removed for being dumb.
Normalise criticizing both the West and China/Russia for their shit.
Don't make it your identity to defend horrible shit, anywhere.
Past or Present
lemmy.world users when lemmy.ml user don't immediately suck up to political propaganda
There's a reason why having both world news communities from both instances is a good thing. You'll receive a much wider range of sources and bias, as well as the perspective of people who don't completely agree with you.
Staying within on instance community creates an echo chamber like reddit. There's even such a wild difference within lemmy.world between c/Politics and c/News, despite them often posting similar news and info.
You'll receive a much wider range of sources and bias, as well as the perspective of people who don't completely agree with you.
That's why I often interact with Truth Social /s
The biggest differences seems to be .ml Russia and China are never wrong and Israel drinks the blood of Palestinian children. On .world Israel is just bad, and China and Russia have problems.
I haven't found Lemmy.ml to be all that objectionable. It's not like they are hexbear.
They're not as bad as Hexbear, sure, but they're constantly turning everything into a political discussion.
After spending a bit of time on communities based on their instance, you just get so sick of hearing about it.
Hexbear are vile, ML are just annoying.
No they are tankies. I got banned from the comics sub for criticizing a comic that gave a, to put it nicely, very one sided perspective on communism.
Communist != Tankie.
Communism is explicitly an economic framework. "Tankie" defines authoritarians who believe in the Communist economic framework. That leaves a lot of room for all other sorts of Communists.
True, but only tankies remove/ban you if you're even mildly critical of China or Russia
I've seen one of their users say it's ok for middle eastern countries to oppress LGBTQ people in an LGBTQ community. Haven't seen much else from there because that's when I decided the ml instances were more trouble than their worth and blocked them.
I’m subbed to a handful of communities in .ml and it’s not that bad. I consider myself communist, but not of the tankie flavor. Authoritarianism is never a good thing.
If people don’t like those views, they shouldn’t wade in unless they’re willing to have a grounded conversation and not just drop a played out one-liner. I think the most recent uptick in complaints about .ml are because of how often it criticizes liberalism.
Lemmy instances are essentially forums. If I go to a conservative community and tell them all that Marx was right all along, I’m not gonna be surprised when I get banned. Complaining about mods is a tale as old as time itself.
They literally censor comments even in non political Communities.
Lemmy.ml is just a Propaganda-Machine.
Yeah lets ban discussion too eh.
That's how I see .ml because you have to be in the cult and not question anything or get banned.
I genuinely have no idea what this is. I just came here for the cat memes. There are very few cat memes here.
Be the change you want to see in the world!
What's a better way to make our little community bigger and better that having pesky antagonisms over every little difference we can find.
We better centralize over a single instance of people thinking exactly like we do.
Big /S by the way.
And I'm not even from .ml but come'on, we share more than we disagree on.
The .ml instance has deliberately overt bias and will literally ban you for not agreeing with their interpretation of Marxist-Leninist communism.
Bad faith “conversation” is their thing.
Many of their communities are becoming “the Donald” type situations.
You choose to socialize and mingle with who you want
This, but lemmy.world instead of lemmy.ml :)
No point in participating in political discussions on LW, as mods just label anything they don't like as misinformation/propaganda/etc. 🙃
And unfortunately lemmy.ml is getting more online traffic recently.
Is it? It looks pretty stable to me. Conversely, world, lemm.ee and shitjustworks are all experiencing slight but noticeable growth.
Really, lemmy.ml? Not lemmygrad and not hexbear?
Maybe peek outside your tiny bubble for once if lemmy.ml is bursting it for you
Interesting that you interpreted a dislike of something as "bursting their bubble". Have you considered alternative explanations that are actually correct?
I don't know. What's the problem with lemmy.ml?
Any part of any discussion that verges into criticizing Russia or China gets removed by either mods or passing site admins.
Any comment that is anti-the-West gets a pass no matter how uncivil, inflamatory or dishonest it is.
Mostly militant tankie mods in worldnews@lemmy.ml. The rest of the instance is fine actually; Their admins aren't as zealous.
Lemmy could really do with the ability to transfer an account to a new instance. The only reason I'm still on lemmy.world is because I can't be bothered to set up an account on another instance that may be as insufferable.
As for communities, Lemmy just isn't large enough to be picky. World is the biggest instance, but is still dead on anything that's not either a Reddit clone or a popular community.
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