The mods of all the major communities there remove comments criticism Hexbear and usually follow it up with a ban. It’s absolutely clear what is happening and it shouldn’t be allowed to continue.

  • @[email protected]
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    Lemmy.ml is not only a massive instance, it is also the original and core lemmy instance. Widespread defederation would be like a nuclear bomb to the lemmy platform.

    Some people have developed alternatives in the threadiverse like kbin or piefed. If lemmy.ml is truly too far aflight for users to tolerate, it seems likely that alternative platforms will fill in the gaps. For now, lemmy is still a thriving and growing platform.

    • Lemminary
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      Widespread defederation has been the norm, though. It has always been a thing, and many threads exist going back and forth on mutual defederation for ages.

      And also, the only reason I’m on Lemmy.world and not .ml is precisely because of their moderation and their community. I’m the example you’re talking about.

      I say bite the bullet and break the cord already. This is not the first or only thread calling for defederation of Lemmy.ml.

      • @[email protected]
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        78 months ago

        What I’m saying is that this is a unique instance. I also think that for my purposes, .world is a much better option, and I think that for most people, it’s a much healthier and more stable place. I’m just not sure that the rest of lemmy can survive without .ml - It is literally where the development of the platform happens.

        What do you do when you have defederated from the developers of the platform you’re using? How do you have a working relationship to meet users needs? Someone will say just fork it, but that’s essentially the same as launching a new platform. As I mentioned, others have done exactly that, partly for technical reasons relating to the vision of what the platform should be, but also for political reasons.

        I’m not advocating for anything, i’m simply stating some of the realities of the platform we are using.

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          Lemmy.world will happily destroy lemmy as a whole if their only other choice is allying with leftists.

            • @[email protected]
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              68 months ago

              Fracturing the space is way more destructive than whatever you mean by destructive moderating, since the moderating will only affect some communities and even within that, some users while defederating will split the user base.

                • @[email protected]
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                  38 months ago

                  You’re talking like a totalitarian. People with this worldview should not hold power, and certainly should not determine what is acceptable discourse.

                  It is disappointing to see that some Americans/Westerners are allergic to disagreeing worldviews. Apparently diversity is only permitted so long as it broadly supports liberal democracies and capitalist understandings of history.

                  Sickening stuff. Makes me think Lemmy isn’t much better than Reddit, particularly if this attitude becomes more prevalent on here

          • @[email protected]
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            88 months ago

            This is what Tankies seem incapable of understanding. We don’t dislike you because you’re leftists. We dislike you because you’re authoritarian simping assholes.

            Go to ml and condemn Russia for their war crimes against LGBT Ukrainians. See how long it takes for you to get banned for going against their beloved country.

    • @[email protected]
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      338 months ago

      It’s not thriving. The devs are prickly arseholes, which is anathema to building a cooperative, volunteer-driven dev community and the tone of many mainstream communities is obnoxiously set by tankies amd their alts.

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        Probably one of if not the biggest reasons people had poor experiences on Lemmy before was because they signed up on Lemmy.ml

        • @[email protected]
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          118 months ago

          LOL this was me. I thought it would be cool to be on the DEV instance and didn’t know that it had a whole lot of other baggage on it.

          • Draconic NEO
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            58 months ago

            It would’ve been me too, but when I started looking at Lemmy the dev’s instance was closed along with many others, so the first one was Lemmy.world for me. While Lemmy.world has its flaws it’s still way better than ml, really dodged a bullet there.

            • @[email protected]
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              You were lucky. I got in right before the Reddit exodus, so I guess I got in before they closed things down.

      • @[email protected]
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        128 months ago

        What have they done to prevent a cooperative, volunteer driven dev community?

        My experience contributing to lemmy was not bad, albeit it was pretty small thing.

    • @[email protected]
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      338 months ago

      Ml will be long term poison to the group. There’s nothing new to say over there, all their own threads are circular.

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        Yeah because lemmy world never circlejerks about anything. Meanwhile you’re literally in one now.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        .world spent months denying the genocide in Gaza. It’s a shithole that is likely an op run by western governments to herd in normies and push favorable narratives. Not remotely hard to see that

        • @[email protected]
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          That’s a joke. I’ve seen denial comments but from the very start world was always pro Palestine. This does not mean there are no examples of Gaza denial on . World

    • @[email protected]OP
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      328 months ago

      If instances can participate in asymmetric information warfare without reprisal, the Lemmy experiment has failed.

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        This is the biggest fucking loser nerd shit i’ve ever read on this site lmfao.

        Go outside and touch grass

      • @[email protected]
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        68 months ago

        It’s crazy that people here want the most authoritarian measure to fight authoritarianism somehow…

          • @[email protected]
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            88 months ago

            This thread is about de federating from lemmy.lm. Because some fascists here are on a witch hunt against some people from hexbear.

            It is literally telling everyone that either they defederate from hexbear or they defederate from lemmy.world.

            Typical trump diplomacy btw.

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                    28 months ago

                    I think I’ve see two comments from tankies. Meanwhile I see fascists and radical liberals several times a week.

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                Gonna be real with you:

                I think it’s a bit wild that we’re still federated with instances that engage in censorship like this and have ideals that run counter to ours in so many ways. We literally have “No tankie shit” as an instance rule, yet we still let people like this spread their echo chamber nonsense through federation. You do realize that if they’re allowed to spread their ideology freely when we aren’t, that they have an advantage? “Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth” and all that good stuff.

                They have decided we aren’t worth listening to and their only reason they keep us around is to evangelize to. The fact I got an instance ban for this should be all the proof you need that discourse with these people is dead.

              • @[email protected]
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                It’s funny how you picture this authoritarianism, and then this very thread is exactly about that : either you defederate from hexbear or you defederate from lemmy.world is the request here.

                I’ve seen far far more fascists on lemmy than I’ve seen tankies BTW.

                So you know maybe it’s lemmy.world that turned fascist and not lemmy.ml. Just food for thought here.

            • @[email protected]
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              Tankies like you are the reason people think leftists like me call everyone they don’t like fascists.

              Hexbear is a fascist website. You are an idiot.

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                18 months ago

                I’m not a tankie, and I see far more fascists than I see tankies. In fact I’ve seen maybe two tankies comments on lemmy while I see fascists several times a week.

                • @[email protected]
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                  38 months ago

                  Really. What fascists have you seen? How do you know they’re fascists? What’s your political ideology?

                  • @[email protected]
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                    When people support a genocide I tend to consider them fascists. When they consider leftists to be extremist of fascist, they are usually fascist themselves. When they promote authoritarianism, intolerance, xenophobia,… When people talk about wokes or wokism, they’re usually fascists. When they support US imperialism.

                    Most fascists blind themselves though, and the propaganda picture anyone against the fascists as fascists.

                    The biggest lie to picture the left as fascist simply because they don’t support liberalism. Leftists have always been the first victims of fascism. That should give you a hint.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      If that’s what it takes I’m ready to switch to a new platform today. Let’s fork and make something healthy.

      • @[email protected]
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        48 months ago

        You might also be interested in checking out kbin, mbin, SubLinks (under development), or PieFed. they each emerged for the reasons we are talking about. They are all free to try and AFAIK interoperable with lemmy for the time being.

        • @[email protected]
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          28 months ago

          Thank you. I’ve been hearing bad things about Kbin the last few weeks, but Mbin and SubLinks sound promising.