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.ml world "news" continuing to be an excellent source of journalism and definitely NOT contributing to the spread of Putin talking points!/s (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is the kind of content the .ml admins cultivate through their bans and censorship. They'll frequently remove articles from credible good sources that directly go against their narratives, while allowing misinformation and conspiracy websites to include RT, Sputnik and (as shown) random substack blogs as long as they tow the narratives that align with them.

E.g. Ukraine is a Nazi regime and Russia is just "liberating" the Ukrainian people

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

.ml was the most tolerable of the tankie triad to me for a long time, but I eventually blocked it as they got worse and worse.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

It's mostly the exact same people as the rest of the triad, they just keep their masks on a little bit better when they're on .ml.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

well just blacklist them, make it an echo chamber so it doesn't show literally anywhere else in the fediverse

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

It gives them more strenghts. The same happened with /thedonald.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, the "block" isn't really a block on Lemmy, it's barely a mute and that goes for user and instance blocks. Because dessalines refuses to implement a proper system (unsurprisingly). It's been 4 years since "blocks" rolled out

In any case it still allows their toxicity and misinformation to spread, trolling new users who come here unaware of the need to block and such

Really, the best answer is to call for wide defederation like the rest of the Tankie Triad is treated

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think ultimately issues like this will be why I don't choose Lemmy when I finally get around to standing up my own threadiverse node.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

PieFed! I'm more attached to Boost than the underlying server software anyways, so if it ever gets PieFed support I'll be leaving for that

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Is piefed a Lemmy alternative? There are so many new things (very cool!) out there, and Lemmy starts to lose it's luster IMO, not very much interesting news or discussions, lots and lots of "gEnOcIdE" troll bullshit (I mean you can't even ask questions to these people).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Yea, for the most part, but it's still fully federated so you'll still be part of the Threadiverse and will be able to fully see and interact with all of Lemmy's content and users without issues

But, on PieFed, at least block means block, blocking lemmy.ml or any other instance on PieFed blocks comms and users alike and blocking an individual user on PieFed means they won't be seeing any of your comments or posts. So none of this mute BS on Lemmy where problematic users can still brigade your content and comment "behind your back" on your posts/comments without your knowledge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I'm leaning that direction if only because I have decade-old Python experience which I could potentially dust off and use to contribute to development if I start "dogfooding" PieFed and find things I want to fix or improve.

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