I've found I've been blocked on world news for posting comments againts fascist ideas. I've been shadow banned from world news for posting comprehensive evidence of china's crimes against humans aka their concentration camps. It wasn't opinion i linked to studies, and it wasn't inflammatory. My comments were removed and now i can't like or comment.

It's really disturbing ngl. I mean reddit was trash too but i expected some freedom of information here.

[–] Duamerthrax 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Was it the .ml or the .world instance? I had comments deleted for "misinformation" on .ml. It's why I migrated away from .ml because it was only a matter of time before my account was banned.

[–] set_secret 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

it was.ML yes .

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You'll probably be happier at [email protected] instead.

I generally avoid communities on lemmy.ml where there are options elsewhere.

[–] Duamerthrax 12 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I just blocked the .ml worldnews community. It isn't worth the effort trying to discuss politics with them. The .world instance has been fine for me so far.

[–] roofuskit 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

.ml is run by tankies. There's no freedom of ideas or speech on that server.

[–] set_secret 2 points 5 months ago

I understand that now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

That makes sense there. A lot of marxist leninist crazies there.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 5 months ago

Wait......people on Lemmy.ml can ban your account site wide if you're not home to lemmy.ml? I don't know the right word for it. But I log into Lemmy.world. You're saying if I comment on a topic on a Lemmy.ml instance, the Lemmy.ml mods can ban the whole account site wide?

[–] Serinus 13 points 5 months ago (3 children)

For reference:

Modlog

He linked https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

That's not allowed on lemmy.ml

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy.ml and world news, name a more iconic duo

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kind of sad how many communities are on .ml. Would like to block the entire server but lose too much content.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

A new post has been created about this issue: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

I guess we'll start people moving from that instance more and more as time passes

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

New person here. What isn't allowed on Lemmy.ml? The linking of wikipedia?

[–] Serinus 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anything that speaks poorly of China, especially Wikipedia.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How did Lemmy.ml become the dominant userbase with those policies?

[–] Serinus 3 points 5 months ago

Lemmy.world is bigger, but Lemmy.ml.is the developers' instance, and gets the newest versions of Lemmy first.

It's also the oldest instance, I believe.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Already mentioned below, but for better visibility: [email protected] has better moderation.

[–] ZoraMystery 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

There have been many times I've been blocked by subreddits just for posting an opinion that the moderators disagreed with. Moderators have way too much control over the website.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

At least modlogs are public, so people can call them out about it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Not really any different on lemmy, sadly

[–] set_secret 0 points 5 months ago

I linked to a lot of other studies im a separate comment too share that if we're being transparent