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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    Welcome to federation, where basically every instance is a proxy to all others.

    Btw you are also free to block any instance yourself.

    • Ech
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      Unfortunately blocking an instance only blocks posts on that instance, not users from it, which is the main issue people have with those instances.

      • Draconic NEO
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        Yeah it’s a very common misconception, I find it weird that people are still having it though when 0.19 is widely available.

        Maybe they’re just saying it as a way to be dismissive of the issue, this kind of stuff happens often when people report or call to attention malicious instances or malicious users.

        • @[email protected]
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          Honestly I think it’s just people that haven’t thought very deeply about the nature of communities they’re supporting.

          • ArxCyberwolf
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            nor how letting a large, poorly moderated instance run wild can negatively affect discourse on the entire platform. Before Hexbear was defed’d on lemmy.ca, Lemmy was damn near unusable on many threads because of the spam and trolling. Blocking them doesn’t stop them from bothering those who haven’t and it affects the platform as a whole.

            • Draconic NEO
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              Blocking is not a real solution, it is putting a blanket over the problem and pretending it went away. People who suggest you do that are suggesting you enable bad faith actors by ignoring their behavior, as opposed to reporting it and/or making others aware so they can report it. We all need to work better to make the platform and spaces on it better, if no one works at it, nothing gets better.

              • ArxCyberwolf
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                Exactly! Letting problematic instances poison the well leads to a net negative to the platform.

                • @[email protected]
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                  My unpopular opinion: Federating with everyone by default is not sustainable.

                  It’s inevitable that the lemmyverse will shatter, and everyone will be better for it.

                  Instances will develop their own policies around moderation and behaviour, and federate with other instances with compatible policies.

                  Basically, federation only works if everyone is acting in good faith. It wouldn’t take much for a single entity acting in bad faith to fuck the entire fediverse presently.

                  Presently admits are blacklisting the bad faith instances. That’s going to change so admins whitelist compatible instances.

      • we is doomed!
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        I think thays a good compromise. if you then have an issie with a particular user you can block them individually.

      • @[email protected]
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        I’m actually mostly fine with blocking instances myself. Users from troll instances rarely annoy me.

      • Clay_pidgin
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        I use Connect for Android, and when I block an instance it blocks the users too. Their comments are still here, but sort of spoiler tagged.

        • @[email protected]
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          Yes but surely you can understand that even votes from these poorly moderated instances are distorting the discourse elsewhere in the lemmyverse.

          Just because you can’t see it does not mean the problem is solved.

          • @[email protected]
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            So we wanna defederate to steer votes in a certain way? Worrying so much about votes is such redditor behavior.

            • @[email protected]
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              I would challenge you to think about how votes can influence the culture of a community.

              You’re correct in that worrying about how many upvotes you can accumulate is very reddit.

              I’m not really talking about karma accumulation, but rather the way votes can influence visibility of comments. When done methodically, this promotes some ideas over others, and presents an illusion that “everyone else thinks so”. This is a very, very powerful way to influence a community.

              We are hard wired to absorb the opinions of those around us. Sure you can disagree with other group members, but even that is an acknowledgement that the alternative perspective you’re disagreeing with is a popular one.

              You could absolutely influence people’s opinions on lemmy just with a hacked instance that manipulated votes on comments by just a few dozen points.

              • @[email protected]
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                You make valid points. Apologies for the Reddit accusation.

                But the one thing that comes to mind is that this kind of Communist, like in lemmy.ml, is not big enough to cause this sway.

                Sure, the instance is massive, but most users don’t hold those same beliefs. Most people go to it as the “default” instance. So I really don’t think they have the numbers to cause this issue.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Sure. This thread is talking about lemmy.ml, but I’m talking about the current state of the lemmyverse.

                  I’ve posted this elsewhere in this thread but my unpopular opinion is that federation by default is not sustainable.

                  Presently admins federate with everyone and blacklist those which are problematic.

                  It’s inevitable that in the near future someone with a rudimentary understanding of hosting will be able to spin up a dozen instances, each with a few thousand bot accounts, intent on upvoting every “genocide Joe biden” comment.

                  The fediverse will shatter. Admins will realise they need policies to guide their own moderation, and acknowledge that they can only federate with specific instances with compatible moderation.

                  So instead of blacklisting bad instances, you need to change to whitelisting good ones.

    • Draconic NEO
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      Btw you are also free to block any instance yourself.

      Not how the instance blocking feature works. it’s a common misconception because people don’t read the docs and just assume it does what they think it does. From the News Section on Join-Lemmy:

      Users can now block instances. Similar to community blocks, it means that any posts from communities which are hosted on that instance are hidden. However the block doesn’t affect users from the blocked instance, their posts and comments can still be seen normally in other communities.

      It’s not an alternative or replacement to defederation, not even close. I’m really surprised this misconception still persists even after widespread adoption of 0.19.x across the Lemmy network.

      • @[email protected]
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        So you don’t care about the instance you want to ban all the users from there. That’s quite open minded and tolerant!

        • @[email protected]
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          Honestly, I’m so weary of being open minded and tolerant. I just want to look at linux memes in peace.

          • Draconic NEO
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            Paradox of tolerance, if you tolerate the intolerant then tolerance quickly goes extinct.

            • @[email protected]
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              Can we stop this please?

              It was never that revolutionary in the first place - “if you allow assholes to be assholes everything will go to shit” - I’m shocked.

              … but now, after seeing it as a reply to every second comment on lemmy, it’s just spam and doesn’t inform discussion in any way.

            • @[email protected]
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              Good lord. It’s as though you haven’t bothered to read any other comments in this thread.

              Blocking instances yourself doesn’t solve anything. At all.

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                Of course they didn’t, they’re just reactively replying to comments that trigger them hoping that the people they reply to also get triggered. They are a troll.

        • Draconic NEO
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          @[email protected] Lol look at you seething away, came here just to randomly attack people in a defederation thread.

          I know what triggers these types of responses to defederation, many people believe that the Fediverse was some grand user choice and free speech haven. Which is an incorrect assumption, by a long shot. The fediverse since it’s beginning has never been a free speech platform, and also like all other top down servers prioritizes admins, the people who pay the bills and are liable for what happens on their server. So when servers violate these rules and all other options have been exhausted or it is clear that they will continue causing issues persistently, servers are defederated to maintain the peace and safety of their server. One thing to make clear is that all users have the choice of signing up to a different server that does federate, and if they are the victim of one of these compromised/bad-faith servers, they really should consider doing that.

          That’s quite open minded and tolerant! Paradox of Tolerance

          • @[email protected]
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            I’m merely pointing the hypocrisy here. Some people on lemmy.world are litteraly on a witch hunt.

  • @[email protected]
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    If they weren’t such weasels and actually agrued back rather than just ban people like the spineless dimwit twats they are, I’d say the argument that they are easily filtered holds. But given they are just looking to propagate their shilling for Russia, trump (and they definitely do this) etc… fuck em!

    • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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      Even outside of their space, when they “argue” it had generally been posting giant, random images that had little to no context followed by walls of emojis. Which is why my blocklist is mostly Hexbear users.

      • @[email protected]
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        But you see, if I post the gigachad xi image in a comment I win the argument and my stalin posting friends give me an upvote

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        The giant images thing is a glitch actually. Try viewing the same thread in your browser and they’re reggo size

    • @[email protected]
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      Yes, leftists famously LOVE Donald Trump 🤣

      This is the most Reddit radlib shit I’ve seen over here yet. Grow up my dude

      • @[email protected]
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        Lemmy.ml are tankies first and foremost. They’ll defend anything that Russia/China thinks is good.

        Calling them leftists is an insult to the rest of us who aren’t authie chuds.

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        Hexbears arent lefties. They are hiding behind acting like they are lefties while at the same time sucking up to the most fascist regimes on earth.

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        They sure seem to like him a lot better than voting in solidarity with the people who’s lives he threatens!

        Or maybe I should refine to White “Leftists” since everyone else need not be told why that’s so fucking stupid.

    • @rambaroo
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      Pretty damn rich coming from lemmy.world where you ban people for criticizing Biden

      All you dummies do when you ban and defederate is push more and more people into extremist communities.

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        Jesus fucking christ, this has comments talking about trump living rent free in muh libs heads

        https://hexbear.net/post/2090983

        You’re the same pack of fucking incels mixed in with the same russian shilling from 2016, that post was from an hour ago, took me seconds to find it

          • @[email protected]
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            I really can’t be bothered going and finding all the pretty fucking obvious examples of you shitheads either apologising or glorifying putin, or coming out with pure incel stuff, or platforming trump. Which makes sense given it seems to be the same campaign as before, and its pretty fucking obvious at this point, very sloppy… I’ve clearly hit a nerve lol. It’d be great if you all could change track at this point and stop platforming that odious cunt, don’t worry I know there is unfortunately no option to stop shilling putin…

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                Assuming you’re not paid or being forced to do this, you must know you’re being used as a tool for the fascists you claim to despise. Platforming trump is support and I see there is no mention of the direct relationship to Putin in all the very loud refuting of this support…

                • Sybil
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                  I thought the Mueller report exonerated him. anyway it’s not as though anybody’s supporting Russia or Putin or Trump in these comments. we just know the Democrats are bad and aren’t afraid to say it.

      • @[email protected]
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        If you can’t see how hexbear is mirroring trump rhetoric almost word for word then I don’t know what to tell you.

        • @[email protected]
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          They’re the new The_Donald, only they’re not even self aware enough to know they’re the bad guys.

          I’m not sure which is worse.

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              Hmmm… brand new account- no content except to be contrarian to the topic…. I’ll entertain your bad-faith question….

              Go to those communities. There’s my example. All of it.

              • @[email protected]
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                Oh damn, what tipped you off? Was it the “hexbear” in my name? Link a single example. Go ahead, make me look like a fucking moron

        • @[email protected]
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          If that’s what’s happening, you’ll very easily be able to provide an example, rather than just asserting it.

        • @[email protected]
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          Are they mirroring trump rhetoric. Or is trump regurgitating talking points from his fascist idol. And ML are just so cultish, indoctrinated, anti West that they couldn’t not attack the west. Even if Russia is more clearly in the wrong on this issue.

          It’s more likely than them actually supporting trump. Honestly I think the only possible way you could say they support trump. Is that they understand that trump would destroy Western society and they approve of that. No matter who gets hurt in the process. Well actually when it comes to leninists it’s all about hurting people in the process really.

        • sovietknuckles[they/them]
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          This wasn’t supposed to be hard. They said “and they definitely do this”, so I was hoping they would share a post or comment that lead them to that conclusion.

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    I’m all for defederating Hexbear, but lemmy.ml is absolutely huge compared to Hexbear. To motivate the community to do that you’d need quite a bit of proof. Or at least something rather compelling. Do you have any proof of what you’re referring to?

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        I was banned from lemmy.ml for posting a meme about the fact that gay characters are removed from movies in China. Not even by a mod. By an admin. I’m not remotely surprised they’re pro-shitheap in general

        • Dandroid
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          There is an admin on lemmy.ml that seems to be banning anyone who says anything negative about China. If I’m thinking of the right person, they are also a large contributor to the Lemmy codebase. That person is why I stopped donating to the Lemmy devs.

          • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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            This kind of stuff is making me consider stopping my donations to the Lemmy project, and instead donating to the Sublinks drop-in replacement developed by the programming.dev instance admins

            • jgrim of Sublinks
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              Hey, I’m the founder of Sublinks. It’s a huge collaboration of several major Lemmy instances like lemmy world, beehaw, discuss.online, programming.dev, and quite a few others that wish not to be named until the release.

              Some admins are directly working on the project while others are providing other types of support. @[email protected] is certainly a major contributor and has helped develop the new front end in many major ways. You can follow some progress updates here: [email protected]

              We have several different teams of developers:

              1. API / Java
              2. Front-end / JS/CSS/HTML
              3. Federation / GoLang
              4. Libraries / JS
              5. Requirements gathering and organization
              6. Design & Graphics - UI/UX
              7. Lemmy to Sublinks migration tools

              There is an active community on Matrix where all of us chat: https://matrix.to/#/#sublinks:discuss.online if anyone is interested in joining. We also have weekly touch bases to discuss progress and next steps. There are tons of people contributing.

              We are currently taking donations only through Github: https://github.com/sponsors/sublinks if you’re truly interested. We’re all working on this part-time in our free time and making fantastic progress.

              Let me know if you have any questions!

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        Hexbear loves to dogpile as well. I’ve seen a couple of raiding threads linking to other threads in Lemmy.ml making fun of whoever. But in reality they’re just directing people over there to shit on someone. At least, that’s what I saw last year, so I’m very distrusting of them.

        That and the Lemmy.ml AMA thread where one admin was all buddy buddy with Hexabear users during their federation.

        • @[email protected]
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          I abandoned an old account because Hexbear bullies followed me around and downvoted everything. Come to think of it, I haven’t posted a single thing since then, and I had a bunch of posts with hundreds of votes.

      • @[email protected]
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        Check my history, I called them out for the NATO one today and they threw all sorts of random shit at me that was off the central point, just looking for a mistake in my wording.

        • @[email protected]
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          Yep. They were claiming that Putin invaded Ukraine to stop fascists. And that they were liberators. I was like, why would one fascist care what other fascists do? In the US, our fascist, wealthy Republicans largely supported Hitler till pearl harbor. But I did agree with them that the Soviet Union absolutely liberated many countries against their will post WWII. And that those countries still hold it against them to this day.

          The gulags were mentioned and they were like, but but but America jails more! To which I told them that was bad. But the West doesn’t kill millions of prisoners the way they did. And all for political dissent, reminding them of just two weeks ago when Putin had Navalny killed for political dissent.

          The absurd thing is, I’m one hundred percent down for Marxism. And largely agree politically with his theory plus some modernization. So technically we would agree on a lot of things there. It’s just the Engles and Lenin bullshit I disagree with, and has shown to have failed. Or caused their downfall historically. But they are primarily leninists, dedicated ideologically to authoritarians and strongmen above all reality.

          • appel
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            How can you agree with Marx and not with Engels? Engels practically did a large chunk of the philosophical heavy lifting for Marxism.

            • @[email protected]
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              I know right, it’s almost like they’re two different people. gasp Wait a minute they are!

              Also, I wouldn’t call might makes right heavy philosophical lifting. There are less objectionable bits that Engles contributed. But some of the worst bits that led to the authoritarianism and brutality common in Marxist leninist structures is pretty strongly attached to him.

              • appel
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                Are there any particular texts from Engels that you disagree with? I would be interested to know where you think the split is. From my reading, Engels was mostly involved in the philosophical and scientific side of the development of dialectical materialism and it’s application into Marxism. Eg. “Dialectics of Nature”, “The German ideology”, “Feuerbach and the end of German classical philosophy”,“anti-duhring” etc. I’m not sure where the apparent “brutality” is coming from here?

          • @[email protected]
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            But they are primarily leninists, dedicated ideologically to authoritarians and strongmen above all reality.

            Why does that mean they should be banned? Is speech that we agree with the only permitted speech?

            Just because you think they’re wrong doesn’t mean they should be banned. Banning them makes it look like we’re afraid of people reading their points, which gives them power and credibility

            • @[email protected]
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              I have not commented on whether or not I think they should. Frankly I’m ambivalent. Considering many of the others that have been defederated. I think it’s kind of hypocritical that Lemmy.ml hasn’t. Personally though I don’t have need or desire to defederate them. It’s pretty easy, if annoying to poke holes in their arguments where important.

              However it’s important to remember that each server is answerable to it’s community and ownership. If world defederated from lemmy.ml you’d be unaffected. And seeing the disdain lemmy.ml has for many types of speech. I’m not overly motivated to make any case to keep them around either. Offering them what they deny others.

              • @[email protected]
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                Considering many of the others that have been defederated. I think it’s kind of hypocritical that Lemmy.ml hasn’t.

                So what? If it was wrong to defederate from those other instances then this can be wrong as well

                However it’s important to remember that each server is answerable to it’s community and ownership

                Or, more accurately, answerable to the appearance of a community and ownership. All of the major instances are heavily astroturfed by various state and corporate entities. Which includes both the United States/West and China/Russia. World is western aligned and ML is not. It’s a proxy war in cyberspace, same as occurs on reddit and Twitter and elsewhere. The solution to such a proxy war is not to cede all ground to the West - such action would not promote truth or critical thought

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                  It could be. It’s not. But it could have been.

                  And do you have any proof of that? I’ve not seen anything of the like. I’m Marxist myself. Just not Leninist. I have no major issues on world. I tend to get downvoted about equally from capitalist to leninist. Up voted too. I’ve not noticed any anti-left trend. Anti ml? Sure. But they are not left in any meaningful sense beyond nominally. Authoritarians always ape populist political trends. In order to take advantage of society. Hitler did it, Lenin and Stalin did too. Though, unlike Hitler, I believe Lenin actually genuinely wanted a good outcome. Despite his bad ideology.

            • @[email protected]
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              People should have free speech, governments shouldn’t have the ability to degrade our platform with shills and LLMs, especially if they’re spreading propaganda for dictatorships.

              • @[email protected]
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                governments shouldn’t have the ability to degrade our platform with shills and LLMs

                I agree, but that is exactly what the United States and the West does.

                China, Russia, and Iran do it as well, of course.

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                  “The west” has been caught flat-footed in the modern disinformation game, they have nothing comparable.

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        IF lemmy.ml is admin’d by the Lemmy devs, themselves,

        AND their ideology/prejudice is being obstructed by the Lemmy-verse,

        THEN wouldn’t it be rational for them to engineer-in to Lemmy, itself, protections for their ideology?

        Breaking the Fediverse’s ability to “manage” them?

        or breaking the Fediverse’s ability to have any alternative-ideology be its core??


        I’m thinking they could either adulterate privacy, deliberately, or they could force blocking to be porous, or something…


        IOW, I’m thinking that it is strategically-incompetent to allow tankies to own our core tech, exactly as it is strategically-incompetent to allow right-wing highjackers-of-our-countries to do so.

        ?

        • @[email protected]
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          They could, but it’s open source software. People can just fork it and not follow along such self destructive paths.

          • @[email protected]
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            Yes, but for example if everyone is running the mainline code, and .ml decides they are going to run a version which does not respect federation updates under certain conditions, they could quietly poison the entire fediverse by spoofing updates from other instances. It’s very obvious that they are already selectively federating their modlog, for example. And some other instances already play games with how votes get reported. There is a lot of trust baked into the federation updates, and nobody knows how to exploit that better than dessalines, who is clearly very interested in using the platform to push a specific ideology.

            I am absolutely in favor of forking Lemmy to get this out of their hands, fwiw. Specifically for this reason. I think they’ve shown that they are not above poisoning the code base exactly like this.

      • @[email protected]
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        I would like to see proof of how a community doing its own thing of sharing their radical views on their instance is damaging.

        I haven’t seen any rampant behavior of lemmy.ml users going to other instances and dogpiling certain posts or comment section. That may be defederation worthy.

          • @[email protected]
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            The denial of having seen it yourself, is something I don’t believe.

            If it’s so rampant that you find it unbelievable I haven’t seen it, then it must be very easy to prove. Can you please provide a proof?

            but they (tankies) control the instance…

            It’s their instance. That’s not proper grounds for defederation in my opinion, when the damage is contained within their instance.

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        Lmao I’ve also been banned by rimjob from World News over the stupidest shit. And yes, he did cite some bullshit even thought I was clearly within the rules and arguing in good faith. How dare someone stand their ground against Bruce Almighty from World News! Not surprised.

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          I had a bunch of reasonable posts deleted from World News. I just blocked it but defederating would be way better because then we can rebuild a healthier news community somewhere else.

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        While I agree that hexbear generally sucks, they and I do at least have an enemy in common. That ban is not so undeserved as I was led to expect.

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          Is your common enemy the People? Because Hexbear promotes authoritarianism and genocide denial.

          • kbal
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            Tankies say all kinds of stupid things, but even if we grant the thus-far unproven assumption that the person being addressed there is among them, when they’re telling nazis to fuck off that is not an appropriate moment to try and start a pointless fight by asserting that they’re wrong about every single thing.

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              It’s not about being wrong or right, it’s that their instance culture is aggressive, immature and arrogant from what I’ve seen. Those meme threads are done obnoxious circlejerks, dear god, I hope they’ve grown out of that at least.

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                Being polite about politics never won shit for anyone.

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                Just as long as you’re not Ukrainian, Tibetan, or Uyghur or else they’ll defend ending your life as a human being.

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                  So what? It’s no different from lemmy.world where the vast majority of users pay Palestinians lip service but get buttmad at the suggestion of holding the US government accountable for funding Israel, only because the man in office is their guy. You all are more than happy to sacrifice a few tens of thousands of Palestinians if it means you don’t have to criticize dear leader.

                  Most of you are gigantic hypocrites on the topic of genocide.

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                  Don’t forget they openly root for Hamas, which will do way worse than just kill people for being queer.

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    ml and Hexbear definitely don’t have the same users. Their comments look very different. Hexbear is far more extreme in every way.

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      Hexbear is mostly just trolls in my experience. They like to brigade any discussion involving Russia, China, Ukraine, etc.

      Lemmy.ml is full of tankies that will also go out of their way to defend Russia and China but they aren’t just blatant trolls which is the difference.

      Having controversial opinions isn’t the problem, trolling and brigading are

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        This is also my take. Hex will troll you but ML folks actually think that you are an evil person because you don’t agree with them on some minor point.

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          actually think that you are an evil person because you don’t agree with them on some minor point.

          Right, this is the major issue for me. I am here for the community. This site doesn’t have half the content that Reddit has. We’re here on principle with each other. If you aren’t trying to make some kind of a connection with me as a person, if you get lost in some singular bullshit nonsense comment I wrote at 10AM on an idle Tuesday, if you start to attribute beliefs and opinions to me that I don’t have, if you’re not willing to reconcile and coexist, then I have no interest in engaging with you. Makes it real hard to engage with some folks - especially Hexbear.

      • @[email protected]
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        I wonder who they were trolling and brigading in the years of their existence prior to them federating with anyone…

    • @[email protected]OP
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      I would need pretty convincing evidence to believe that the major .ml communities don’t have at least one mod each with a Hexbear alt.

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    At some time we have to deal with this.

    Keep in mind that we like Lemmy for being a federated platform.

    I don’t think there is enough awareness at this point. And the way we do it here, it has to come from the community. The people and mods have to become aware and make a decision to move their participation and the communities to another instance. I don’t see a way around that. This will take some time, patience and effort.

    I’ve started to do my part and unsubscribed from [email protected] I’m now going through my list of subscriptions and find alternatives to other communities, so I don’t contribute to the lemmy.ml communities being the larges ones any more.

    [Edit: Wow. I’ve replaced 32 communities, some with substantially better alternatives, and I’ve found a few nice additional ones in the process. I still need recommendations for alternatives to: “Peertube”, “Libre Culture”, “Crawling the IndieWeb”, “datahoarder”, “Linux Phones”, “postmarketOS”, “osu!”. I’m glad I did this. I think this is the way to make a change as a simple user. And now I’m not part of the problem anymore. It took me the better part of an hour, though.]

    • @[email protected]
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      I’m just blocking the entire lemmy.ml instance. I’ve seen consistent problems from them, and nothing worth staying connected with.

      Wish I could help you find alternative communities but I’m not sure about the ones you mentioned. They’ll grow over time if Lemmy survives.

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        Thx. I found the most important communities to me. I’m glad most of them have an alternative and those are going strong. I can live with losing a few minor ones.

        Concerning “blocking them”: I’m not sure. I was a strong opponent to the whole defederation and “safe-space” thing last year. Where especially beehaw.org decided to do their own thing and rigorously defederate, often preemptively and without talking to people. I think such behaviour splits the community and disconnects people. I really don’t like all the drama, falling out with each other and particularism. And I think all the feud is a sure way to kill the platform before it even took off with the general public… Honestly, I’m slowly changing my mind. Give me some more time.

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          I agree with your general point but

          splits the community and disconnects people

          They aren’t people like you and I. They’re paid shills at best and KremlinGPT at worst. I think to survive and flourish as a platform Lemmy will have to aggressively fight back against authoritarian disinformation. As it stands, I won’t even admit to anyone that I use it because it so full of propaganda.

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            It is a bit more nuanced than that. There are normal people there, too. It’s been one of the largest instances when the Reddit exodus happened. Some of the users chose the largest and the ‘official’ instance. And some of them are still there.

            But lemmy.ml is operated by the same people who also run lemmygrad, some moderators seem to be the same. And unfortunately the whole Lemmy software platform is developed by “those” people.

            I don’t mind leaning a good amount to the left. I think a few socialist values would advance society and economy. Especially in places like the USA. And I’ve been called a communist for that. But being a tankie is beyond my comprehension. Why would anyone like Putin, defend the CCP and what they do to people. And I’m not overly bothered with the left vs right. It’s the constant yelling, being super argumentative, doing brigading and spreading misinformation.

            I think things are changing. I’m paying attention now to the usernames in the comments. And lemmy.ml isn’t the dominating place anymore. Most of the usernames I see come from a broad range of instances. And that’s a good thing. It’s still a home to some big communities which needs to change, too. And I’m also waiting for a new software to come along, written by different people with a different motivation and agenda. In my opinion that’s one of the next steps to emancipate ourselves. I mean if you don’t like lemmy.ml you probably don’t like the people making the decisions there. Which unfortunately are the same people who also write all of the Lemmy software. And their software development decisions reflect the same attitude. But also that’s going to change. A few people are working on good alternatives which strive to listen to the community, invite people to participate and also finally implement proper moderation tools and a few other tweaks to foster good behaviour.

            I like Lemmy. But this platform had a hard time from the start. And it’s still struggling. Mixing technological difficulties and innate problems of growing a community with drama, bad decisions, waywardness and friction within the community on many different levels is just stupid and unnecessary. But I’m still waiting for progress and a bright future. I think Federation is one of the best approaches with some potential to make that happen.

            I think the solid technological basis is what I’m a bit more concerned as of now. But apart from that I agree that it is us, the community who sets the tone and we decide who we want to listen to, nice people or people with behaviour disorders and an attitude. And it’s a vicious circle. At some point a platform has an image and is bound to tip and attract more like-minded people and less normal ones. And the dynamics are there and we need to actively fight for a nice place.

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              Well said, I agree with all of that. I’m considerably more to the left as well, that’s part of why I hate lemmy.ml, because they’re preventing actual good growth and movement in that direction.

              Hopefully Mbin or some other one of the new forks/platforms takes off soon. I’m ready to move if necessary, I love the idea of a healthy Fediverse and I hope some day I can recommend it to friends instead of being too embarrassed to admit I use it because of all the propaganda.

              • @[email protected]
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                That’s something I’ve recently realized. They think people dislike them because they’re leftist, but that has very little to do with it. Some of their harshest critics are from the left.

                They have no idea it’s because of their authoritarian simping, and every time you call them out on it, they deflect. Frankly they more strongly support fascist regimes than their criticizers.

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                  I think the paid shills know what’s going on, they’re told to act like leftists and probably don’t actually hold those beliefs. They might be brainwashed to think the CCP/Kremlin is good.

                  So in my opinion they pretend people are “upset that they’re leftist” in order to avoid people focusing on their actual motives.

              • @[email protected]
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                you can leave literally any time. there are dozens of instances, you don’t need to stay on flagship instances. you might like truth.social, which runs mastodon’s software, or gab.com which does the same.

              • @[email protected]
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                Sure. I personally am waiting for PieFed to come along. They seem to know what’s important to address and also have some good ideas how to tackle it.

                I’m 100% ready to support that and focus my engagement there. I’m pretty sure just changing the software codebase isn’t changing too much… But I’d like some more independence from the few people currently doing everything.

                And that’s also what I’ve done. I haven’t recommended Lemmy to friends and family, yet. And I’ve refrained from running my own instance, too. Despite having the server ready for that.

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                  Thanks I’ll keep an eye on it. Sad to be eager to abandon ship already, but it’s not surprising that the fediverse will have some growing pains. The core value and promise of healthy social media is still there and I love it.

            • @[email protected]
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              Mocking me instead of responding to what I said is a good indicator you have no reasonable response.

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                It’s a good indicator that what you said was worthy of mockery. Mockery is a reasonable response for someone who thinks everyone you disagree with is a shill and that all ideas that you disagree with are propaganda.

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                  Well, they’re a bit over the top and oversimplifying things in my opinion. But you’re also not contributing anything of value. You could instead add your perspective if it’s different. I mean I’d probably read it and it’d get us …anywhere?..

                • Sybil
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                  all ideas that you disagree with are propaganda.

                  all media is propaganda.

          • TragicNotCuteM
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            I think saying that any group of humans “aren’t people” isn’t being respectful of others. Please stop.

            • @[email protected]
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              Intentionally misunderstanding what I said at best, defending propaganda from genocidal authoritarians at worst.

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                I don’t care about the content of what you are talking about. The community rules say to be respectful of others. And you aren’t. I asked you to stop but you want to argue.

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                  I don’t think shills are people on here in the same way genuine users are, I stand by that. They’re representing authoritarian governments, not themselves.

                  If you want people to be respectful of others, how about addressing shills who are defending the Kremlin’s genocide in Ukraine? It would be respectful to Ukrainians to acknowledge all of their suffering and close the door on propaganda from their oppressors.

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            They aren’t people like you and I. They’re paid shills at best and KremlinGPT at worst.

            Oh shit i get paid?

  • @[email protected]
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    Moreover, it seems pretty clear to me that .ml intends to keep their finger on the scale as much as possible. Just saying “oh federation solves all the problems just block them” doesn’t really fix the issue when there are a bunch of ways they can potentially run malicious versions of the code base to mess with how federation functions and hold onto their influence. For example, they are already refusing to federate their mod logs in some cases, and they’ve shown themselves to be completely shameless and hypocritical when it comes to banning any and all dissent. They simply cannot be trusted.

    I personally believe that the broader fediverse should seriously consider taking serious steps to cut out .ml before they do something drastic to fuck it all up

  • @[email protected]
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    I predicted this when lemmygrad got defederated. I said that neoliberals were gonna identify some other instance as the “tankie instance” and start campaigning to defederate from it.

    • @[email protected]
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      Funny because it’s always been those 3 instances this whole time, nothing ever changed in our dislike for them.

      • @[email protected]
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        As long as we all agree you don’t actually care about rule violations, you’re just mad they think differently than you.

      • @[email protected]
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        Uh huh. Once you’ve succeeded in defederating from .ml, in a few months, there will be another instance that neoliberals decide is full of tankies, and it will have always been those 4 instances.

        I called it last time and neoliberals don’t change their desire to silence people to their left.

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            And .ml is only the “tankie instance” because neoliberals found “tankie” to be an effective cudgel to silence people to their left. They don’t have to be tankies to get the label.

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              Right, but I am AnCom call them tankies because they support the USSR & China.

              You can hate neolibs all you want, that doesn’t change the fact that CTH, Lemmygrad, & .ml are the tankie trifecta.

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                CTH? I thought Hexbear was the first “tankie instance”

                See you when you guys get the urge to karen another instance.

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                  Hexbear is CTH.

                  When reddit banned CTH, some of the community went and made Hexbear, most of us stayed on reddit and due to the small userbase it become an incestral breeding ground that removed all but the most hardcore tankies and authiechuds leading to the shitheap it is today.

      • @[email protected]
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        Me: How’s that AI search algorithm going, Google?

        Google: “Did you mean ‘Scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds Dune?’”

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        Lmao. Welcome to lemmy.world, where anyone left of center or who mildly criticizes the instance is a Russian bot or a secret hexbear user. Y’all have no clue how ridiculous you sound. The whole instance is like a giant neolib /r/politics circle jerk

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        Do you think comments like these are swaying public opinion in your favor?

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    Well, the discussion in this thread has convinced me to agree. It’s also readily apparent that ml thinks any criticism against them is because they’re leftist. They can’t fathom that anyone could think they’re an asshole or authoritarian apologist.

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      They don’t think that, they aren’t actually leftists and they know it. They’re masquerading as leftists and using that as a cover for spreading authoritarian propaganda. It’s intentional, they know precisely what they’re doing.

      If you try to talk to them about it they’ll argue in bad faith and try to waste your time.

    • @[email protected]
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      Be respectful of others.

      This comment is in clear violation of the rules of this community. Be better, if you want to criticize others.

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          I had a look at your history, and you seem really incapable of behaving in a civil way, often using insults. I don’t think this is a good strategy to get your point across.

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              You see, it’s not required for me to agree with whom you are criticizing, to criticize your inability to be civil. So keep making as many strawmen you like. We are in a post complaining about user behavior/content and your behavior and content are both completely unacceptable in a community.

              Also, you can stop name-calling, this may have an effect when someone else values your opinion, I don’t.

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                They always seem to think when they get this extreme that their opinions are important when they aren’t. People not able to participate civilly in discussions, surprise surprise, don’t have any value placed on their words in those same discussions.

  • @[email protected]
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    No. Defederating at the drop of a hat is stupid. You don’t like it? Then you, YOU, block the instance.

  • @[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.

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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.

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        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.

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              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.

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                  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

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            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.

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      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

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          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.

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            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.

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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.

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        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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      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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        .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

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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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      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

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

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            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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                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.

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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.

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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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                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.

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

    • @[email protected]
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      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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        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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          Thank you. I’ve been hearing bad things about Kbin the last few weeks, but Mbin and SubLinks sound promising.

  • Extreme Soup
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    Seems like they werent such big fans of your post. It has been removed from their instance and your account was banned. Very interesting 🤔

  • BrikoX
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    Rules in question stated as a reason for removing the comments and temporary ban:

    1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia. Code of Conduct.
    2. Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.

    People can make their own conclusions.

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      Since when is calling out tankies racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia?

      • Lath
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        bigotry
        ˈbɪɡətri
        noun
        obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.

        If the person in question went after them simply because they are part of the group called ‘tankies’, the first rule was broken.
        If the person in question was the first to throw out insults, the second rule was broken.

        If however the opposing group initiated the conflict, broke the same rules and was not punished, then the complaint here is fair and should be pursued in order to prevent an escalation of abuse.

        The nasty thing about bigotry is that by definition, it doesn’t matter which group is being discriminated against. It accepts all discrimination under its label.

        • @[email protected]
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          568 months ago

          We generally don’t consider something to be bigotry if it is directed at an ideology or behavior that people can control. Ability or disability, gender, religious/ethnic background, race, age, nationality, etc. are all factors that are beyond an individual’s control.

          • AmidFuror
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            Hate to Godwin this thread, but does that mean you can’t attack Nazis as a group on lemmy.ml?

            • @[email protected]
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              368 months ago

              Of course not. They apply their rules subjectively.

              For instance I got rule 1’d for saying “Fuck China” but I bet you, you wouldn’t get banned for saying “Fuck America” or “Fuck Israel” (fuck ‘em all imo).

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                I got rule 1 for posting an image of a yassified Patrick because I, a huge homo, may find discomfort in what gay memes I share, I guess!

              • Lath
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                If you have evidence of abuse and selective enforcement of the rules, show it in order to allow the admins to act on it.
                Don’t just lash out, document the exchange. Keep a record of the favouritism.

            • Lath
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              You can try, within your interpretation of their rules. And if you get banned for that, take pictures.

          • Lath
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            Understandable, however, generalities sometimes aren’t enough in a court of law.
            The difference between the spirit and letter of the law allows for interpretations that don’t agree with each other. As we can see in this situation.

            And like it or not, this is a social court of law. Moderators and admins are judges who follow the rules and administer relative justice. You can either agree to give them the latitude to have their own interpretation of the rules as long as they stick to them, or you make concise rules that offer no room for discussion.

            You might say each instance can have its own rules and that is true, but when those written rules are the same and defederation starts to happen because there is disagreement on the meaning of those words, the “in general” part is going to be the mainstay of how rules are enforced.

            And, in general, that’s part of what causes societies to fall.

    • Lemminary
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      198 months ago

      They can write whatever bullshit they want as a reason. If the comment is gone, who’s gonna check? Hell, who audits that at all?

  • @[email protected]
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    248 months ago

    Your stance is basically: “I had disagreements with/don’t like users from an instance, please block an entire instance for all other users in the instance I’m in”. Why are you making your problems everyone else’s?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      328 months ago

      My stance is that Hexbear is a bunch of fascists spreading their ideology and Lemmy.ml is helping them doing it by banning dissenters. I believe that freedom of speech only works with parity, and giving fascists a one-way echo chamber with which to spread fascism, deny genocide, brigade, and otherwise act in bad faith should be entirely unacceptable. People should not be getting posts from Lemmy.ml on their feeds because this “curated” discussion is basically the memetic equivalent of an engineered virus, and it cannot be allowed to spread.

      • @[email protected]
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        118 months ago

        It’s very easy to label people fascists as a generic “bad people” label and claim they’re arguing in bad faith based on nothing but your feelings. I could just as easily call you a fascist for trying to decide what everyone else on this instance gets to see and that you’re arguing in bad faith wanting vengeance because you threw a tantrum on another instance and got spanked for it.

        The most name-calling I see are from people like you who label anyone who disagrees with them a “fascist”, “shill”, “bot”, “tankie”, “wumao” or millions of other terms and I see so many posts getting downvoted for not following your desired narrative. We can see this happen in the posts right here.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          tankie:

          (politics, slang, derogatory, by extension) A supporter of authoritarian policies and actions by the Soviet Union, China, or other nominally socialist governments.

          fascism:

          Any right-wing, authoritarian, nationalist ideology characterized by centralized, totalitarian governance, strong regimentation of the economy and society, and repression of criticism or opposition.

          So yeah, Hexbear isn’t full of fascists, it’s full of tankies, which are just fascists with a socialist coat of paint. The fact that I’m doing this because I was actioned by a moderator acting as a tankie commissar doesn’t change the validity of my reasoning as to why being federated to Lemmy.ml is a problem.

          • @[email protected]
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            68 months ago

            and you think this entitles you to be commissar dictating what everyone on this instance gets to see or not see? If I call you fascist enough times, does that mean your posts can be blocked for everyone?

      • @[email protected]
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        78 months ago

        It would be better if you could just ignore them.

        In general this Lemmy architecture, presented as compromise, where instance admins have some power and defederation is a thing - I don’t like it. I understand it’s simpler to do, but socially it may just not be something that will work.

        IMHO user identities should be cryptographic, so should be community identities, and moderation should be done the same way as certificate revocation, and providing storage and connectivity shouldn’t be connected to moderation or identities.