I would tolerate them a little more if it weren't for the constant brigading.

Wanna analyze Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory, self-crit, and all that good stuff? Fine by me, I like discussion of varying viewpoints. But often it's not about that but are bad faith arguments and whataboutisms about how the decadent West is ruled by the US and how Putin/Kim/Xi did nothing wrong.

It's exhausting. I don't go into their subs and rattle on about liberal market economics.

"authoritarian communist" is an oxymoron to begin with. how can you build a society where everyone is equal by enforcing authority

Of the people who say anything about it, there seems to be two mutually exclusive camps of people on Lemmy in regards to how it should be structured.

There's those who want it to be a drop-in replacement for whatever platform they migrated from (Reddit, ususally), with everything cultured in one simple, easy-to-browse place where there's enough activity to support diversity, just without the enshittification, even though the centralization they crave is exactly what invites the enshittification...

...and then there's those who specifically want the site to stay fragmented, because that's the whole point of federation, it keeps out all the riff raff, and prevents the platform from losing what makes it so great. But many of them complain about why it isn't growing as fast as they'd like it to, despite the fact that the fragmentation of community is by far the single greatest barrier preventing the mass adoption they yearn for.

Each one seems to want a piece of what the other has.

You can just talk to Jerry. He's the guy in the grey sedan across your street. If you give him the code word, he'll give you the package.

It's all funny but I thought it weird how .world deleted most pro Luigi posts that first week.

Well, my 1st matrix account was on the kiwifarms' server. Nope, I didn't know tf kiwifarms was at the time, I just liked the name

So? It’s the same .ml users complaining.

I've been banned from the entire .ml instnce and all its communities for daring to talk about the uyghur genocide.

Yes, we need to defederate now.

The plural of anecdote is not data, but 90% of comments that I've seen defending russia in particular had been from .ml

One non hateful comment. Have a nice Weekend fella!

Though since everyone hates this instance I am thinking about moving to another.

Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.

This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.

This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click "Settings".

At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says "Blocks".

Here you will see "Block user" "Block community" and "Block instance". Click the down arrow below "Block instance".

This will open up a search bar. Type "lemmy.ml" and click it after it shows up.

That's it! You've blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don't need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!

But wait, we aren't done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under "Block user". Now type "UltraGiGaGigantic" Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.

I mean.. it helps. I've seen less tankies after blocking .ml subs, but they're still there

It's caused shit in the comments.

First, you didn't pay attention to the meme at all, because if you had you would realize that I said .ml tankies specifically (or you did and then it's kinda funny how you immediately thought I was talking about all .ml users)

Second, .ml is actively hurting Lemmy in the Fediverse now

Third, it's mostly about the tankie "culture" (read pro-China, pro-Russia and even pro-NK misinformation and propaganda) that the devs, admins and mods encourage and enforce. You can't even post anything negative, no matter how backed by facts or deserving it is, about China or Russia without getting some sort of ban. China IS an authoritarian dictatorship masquerading as fake communism.

Fourth, .ml admins and mods doesn't want Lemmy to grow even at a healthy pace, if it's not growing in the direction they want (e.g. a tankie echo chamber).

Fifth, I have no other major issues or concern with any other instance that hasn't been already addressed (eg hexbear, lemmygrad)

the actual reasons people are mad at .ml is getting banned/censored for being bigoted

Where's my bigotry? As of yesterday I was banned from a ton of .ml communities for "Troll" despite not having posted a single comment or post anywhere in .ml for a long time now.

In fact lots of people are banned for "Troll" or other "catch-all" rules for the audacity of bringing up things like the Uyghur genocide that China is doing or that Russia attacked a country unprovoked and wholly unjustified or even the fact that China is, in fact, Authoritarian

ETA, oh and here I was banned from technology for R1 "Bigotry", wheres the bigotry in bringing up China being authoritarian?

Well, federation temporarily broke between .world and .ml for a bit a couple months ago and it was actually pretty nice. It was a turning point for me I think, up till that point the .ml issue was somewhat passive. Then they were just gone for a few days and it was kinda nice lmao