I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.
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this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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my instance has been defederated from .ml for ages and i can personally confirm fedi is still fun here :) take that as you will
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Here's a list of a few .ml communities and potential replacements:
- ask lemmy - [email protected] [email protected]
- linux - [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
- memes* - [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
- programmer humor - [email protected]
- world news - [email protected] [email protected]
- technology - [email protected]
- funny - [email protected]
- ukraine - [email protected]
Side note the main issue with .ml is transparency. It's fine if the admins of an instance implement whatever rules they want in their instance; however, once they start enforcing hidden rules disguised as violations of the listed rules, they're being liars and treating the users as stupid things to be herded, not as human beings.
EDIT: as people noticed I'm not including .world comms to not encourage even further concentration of activity into the largest instance. Decentralisation is important. Also I'm adding stuff that you guys suggest.
* for specialised memes, as the category is rather large:
The .ml transparency thing is a symptom, not a root cause. The admins like and even participate in the .ml rhetoric. The rules ambiguity is intentional.
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[email protected] has over 70 times as many subscribers as the other two asklemmy communities combined.
I'm avoiding linking lemmy.world instances. We shouldn't put even more eggs in that basket, you know.
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If they were banning people for shit posting on a communism community I wouldn't have a problem. Its when you get removed banned from all communities because you said you don't like there crappy memes
Or even if they had an instance-wide rule saying "don't criticise Russia or China here". It's fine as long as the rules are clear.
But no, instead they libel the users criticising either, claiming that they violated rule #1 (TL;DR "no bigots"). Even when the criticism is clearly against the government.
And then you get a bunch of 11yos eating that ban message for breakfast, because they're ~~full of gullibleness and don't get the purpose of this utterance~~ dumb fucks.
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honestly, I eventually got fed up enough and instance blocked .ml on my account a couple weeks ago, and Ive barely noticed a difference. It was the bulk of lemmy right after it started to get some migration from Reddit, but it isnt nearly as essential these days already
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The way I see it if they get defederated a lot of the people will migrate away from it and it won't be "too big to fail" anymore
The best way to keep them all contained would be to not defederate but encourage everyone on other instances to add it to their instance mute list so you don't have to interact with them.
As long as it's not only lemmy.world communities you start growing. Centralization won't lead to good outcomes anywhere.
Absolutely! Grow a community on any instance that doesn't allow the kind of users that lemmy.ml does I say.
I think we gave them too much power by making their communities as big as we did
I'm glad there is enough critical mass to move past those fucking hatemongers. "Pure free speech and anarchy!" If you say exactly what we want you to, also don't accidentally offend us with normal fucking words
They're not anarchists tho. Don't associate anarchism with .ml bullshit
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"Free speech!"
Ok tankie.
"Not like that!"
Did you know that Norway, Sweden, and Denmark all have laws against hate speech, harassment, and discriminatory expressions targeting protected groups. For instance, Norwegian law prohibits public statements that threaten or insult someone, or promote hatred based on factors like ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation. At the same time they consistently top indices like the Reporters Without Borders' World Press Freedom index. I'm not saying that your comment is threatening or anything, but it doesn't seem very important to me to protect the right of someone to use a crude derogatory like "tankie" (a word with parallels to terms like "pinko" and "judeo Bolshevik").
In reality, the pervasiveness of derogatories like that limit free speech. Of course, this goes the same for calling everyone one disagrees with a lib or fascist as well.
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don’t accidentally offend us with normal fucking words
What were the normal words that people found so offensive?
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Now what's the juicy backstory to this drama?
Not believing the US propaganda apparatus is thoughtcrime
Damn, never noticed I couldn't say stuff like "the US is a shitshow" over here. The agents on my door were always so nice as well!
Buggers, guess I'll have to buy some Apple stocks now and pleasure myself over a picture of Abraham Lincoln.
You can say whatever you like if nobody cares.
Say something bad about liberalism, NATO, or Ukraine or something good about China or the USSR that threatens the narratives the mods are invested in, and you're liable to have your comment removed for "misinformation", especially if you cite academic works.
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Lemmy.ml is one of the biggest instances that serves up tankies, there was some conversation going on the .world admin thread regarding the federation issues about why not just defederate/"not fix it" and it was brought up they have a lot of content including one of the biggest Linux communities.
Thus this meme was born lol
ive noticed several communities being moved off of .ml because of overacting mods shitting their own beds (my fav movies comm being one of them). kinda the whole point of the 'verse. i also noticed a recent sync in-congruence from .ml to .world which indicates some kind of funny business... purposeful or not
the locals at .ml seem to have this notion that theyre too big to fail, which is patently not true considering the tiny size of the fediverse overall.
id recommend users utilize a 'home' instance thats more of an onramp than local-content curation... (https://moist.catsweat.com/ being in this category) they tend to not defederate from any instances so users can easily switch subscriptions when shit goes sideways in the content-heavy servers without making new accounts.
i also noticed a recent sync in-congruence from .ml to .world which indicates some kind of funny business... purposeful or not
This isn't unique to world or ml. There's some wonky shit going on with federating across Lemmy at the very least, maybe other parts of the fediverse that I don't use. On walledgarden there are at least half a dozen instances that are falling in and out of sync with our communities. No one on either side of the connection seems to have an answer for what caused this behavior or how to correct it. Talking to some other instances, we aren't alone.
The lemmyverse crawler/site has also shown some odd behavior with communities and instances disappearing and reappearing seemingly at random.
I don't think anything malicious is being done by any of the instances or admins in regards to federation delays.
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