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Your account seems new @[email protected], sorry you had to deal with this but this is what happens on the tankie instance that is .ml

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

Somehow I feel lemmy.ml got more extreme over the last two years. RT news is the official foreign propaganda channel of Russia, almost everybody knows this (at least in Europe)..

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

I've noticed the same thing. I do think part of it is .ml has been accruing users from other, more widely defederated instances like lemmygrad and hexbear.

Trolls want an audience, after all.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Originally, .ml was the flagship instance for a fledgeling new software project, and the devs had to try and keep the mask on as much as they could for it to be a general purpose main instance. But over time that mask slipped, and users fled to other instances. Which means the only users left on .ml today are the fellow tankies. And knowing that, now they don't seem to try to hide it anymore.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And the fact that it's run by the devs is a serious detriment. New users are going to take one look at it, and think Lemmy is tankie central. And the sane ones are going to leave.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (5 children)

This is part of why I chose a Mbin instance over Lemmy. It's hard for me to even recommend Lemmy the software because of its devs.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It probably has, they've spent just the last almost 2 years or so of Lemmy-verse growth since the Reddit API debacle banning, censoring and ostracizing newcomers that didn't fit in with the tankie mindset

They've become the echo chamber they always accuse .world/.ee/SJW of being

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