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I know it's .ml where such things happen but ffs! This guy needs to fucking chill 🤦

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

worldnews at .ml is a dumpster fire. First community I had to completely scrub from my instance because it was just so toxic from top to bottom.

Edit: Also, will share my last comment there before I self-banned and purged that cesspit from my instance. This is in reply to someone making a fat joke about Kim Jong Un:

Good 'ol ambiguous Rule 1 lol

[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What you didn't realize is that Kim Jong II is actually the mod

[–] [email protected] 30 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I tried to give that instance the benefit of the doubt at first, but I just block all lemmy.ml communities when I see them now. There's just too much user and ideology overlap with lemmygrad and hexbear. The worldnews sub was especially bad though. Disinformation & insults everywhere, but they're never removed despite reports, because they're part of their side & agenda. It's basically lemmygrad in disguise.

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[–] Lemminary 19 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You too, huh!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Fucking mods, this is Reddit all over again.

And fuck off whoever that tells me again to set up my own instance. What I want is popular instance admins and mods to pull out the stick out of their asses, because free speech instances that get defederated at the speed of light are of no use.

And there's no seamless multiaccount Lemmy client yet.

/rant

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago

And fuck off whoever that tells me again to set up my own instance. What I want is popular instance admins and mods to

Seriously though you're making demands that other people work for free in a manner that will benefit you.

Way I see it, either take some of the free lunch that's on offer or make your own.

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[–] Viking_Hippie 85 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

This is the comment and of course toothy banned me for 3 days too.

Just like they did for "sinophobia" when I expressed misgivings about Chinese and Hungarian cops joining forces 🤦

[–] [email protected] 59 points 7 months ago

That's like that meme post from a few years ago where it's like (paraphrased):

Person 1: "I can't stand homophobes"

Person 2: How dare you insult Christians like that.

Person 1: I never said "Christians". You jumped on that grenade all by yourself.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago

Just like they did for “sinophobia” when I expressed misgivings about Chinese and Hungarian cops joining forces 🤦

Just love the thing where they twist any criticism of the Chinese state into perceived hate for Chinese people, but are so apprehensive when Israel tries to do the same. It's reprehensible.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (7 children)

I got banned for “orientalism”, whatever that is

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I was also banned from [email protected] and had comments removed for "Re-enforcing neo-liberal cultural hegemony" and "Believes in objectivity in media lmao".

My offense? Saying that a report sourced solely from an eye-witness account via Al-Jazeera regarding another massacre of civilians and aid workers in Gaza needed to be corroborated by further evidence before we regard it as hard fact. The irony is I'm very much pro-Palestinan.

According to the mods, however, that apparently means I have to throw all media literacy out of the window and blindly accept any anti-Israel claims without question.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That community is wild, but the discussion over Gaza over there is fucking crazy. Al Jazeera is one of their more credible sources, you can find articles from websites nobody every heard of, small blogs that state IDF soldiers are eating babies. And that is no exaggeration, that was the last thing I read before I left that community...

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Exactly what prompted me to comment, since the blog that sourced Al-Jazeera also added certain details that didn't seem based on anything like actual evidence. Although I admit it wasn't anything near as extreme as the IDF canibalizing babies.

If we must call out pro-Israel propaganda that makes outrageous, unsubstantiated claims like that, we must do the same for pro-Palestinian propaganda, regardless of how we personally feel about the conflict.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I start almost every comment I make on those instances with

I know this will net me a ban

to play a bit of reverse psychology with the mods there, who don't touch my comments when the denizens there inevitablely say

Oh yeah you think you're so smart well we don't ban opposing opinions unlike some places

And the mods there have their hands tied because banning me would prove their own guys wrong.

It's worked pretty well so far.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

The irony of a communist banning someone over "McCarthyism" when what the banned user said was not even close to McCarthyism, making the mod action itself McCarthyism.

They've become the very thing they hate!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Everything I don't like is McCarthyism

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

You were suppose to destroy the Sith, not join them

[–] Rhynoplaz 47 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (8 children)

Usually I hop in these threads ready to tell people why they deserve to be banned, but dang. There is nothing wrong, ethically or factually, in what you said.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

One of their mods banned me for pointing out that Chiang Kai-Shek genocided the communists in China before the Long March. Sometimes they hurt themselves in their confusion.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago (14 children)

This is why I’ll personally never donate to the Lemmy devs. I could never bring myself to fund a tankie.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (14 children)

It's not the only one but one of the bigger reasons why I don't use Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 7 months ago (12 children)

I have had my comment removed and/or banned from the ml worldnews for "misinformation" for debunking Russian propaganda with sources.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 7 months ago (3 children)

All of the .ml instances are absolutely Russian psyops and you can’t change my mind

(I jest… mostly…)

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

I'm convinced they're US psyops to make communists look like idiots. I don't agree with most of communism, but I can respect people with different views. But the tankies on Lemmy are doing such a hard double dutch rudder on China and Russia they can't be real. Nobody is that stupid, right? And then I remember how many people are going to vote for trump. Yes, the world really is this stupid all around. Idiots are taking over. The stupid people are breeding. Nationalists that feel it's their duty to populate the homeland.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Tankies on lemmy are absolutely that stupid. I argue with them all the time. And like OP, I get posts removed and banned often. Across several accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yes, the world really is this stupid all around.

Well, that's the glass-is-half-empty view.

Another way to look at it is that from an evolutionary timeline standpoint, we're a bunch of hairless ground apes quite recently spending most of our time living in caves in groups of maybe 150 at most. We've been, in an evolutionary blink of an eye, propelled rapidly into a horribly-different and rather-confusing environment, and still trying to get by on our cave-dwelling adaptations. And in that context, perhaps we're doing quite well.

It has been observed that if the last 50,000 years of man’s existence were divided into lifetimes of approximately sixty-two years each, there have been about 800 such lifetimes. Of these 800, fully 650 were spent in caves. Only during the last seventy lifetimes has it been possible to communicate effectively from one lifetime to another—as writing made it possible to do. Only during the last six lifetimes did masses of men ever see a printed word. Only during the last four has it been possible to measure time with any precision. Only in the last two has anyone anywhere used an electric motor. And the overwhelming majority of all the material goods we use in daily life today have been developed within the present, the 800th, lifetime.

-- Future Shock, Alvin Toffler, 1970

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

You're right that they aren't real communists, that's a mask they wear to spread Kremlin and CCP propaganda.

The idea that they're run by the US government is ridiculous, they're full of hateful anti-Western content.

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[–] NOT_RICK 31 points 7 months ago

Babe, wake up; a new .ml wrongthink euphemism dropped

[–] HollandJim 29 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Oh, I got banished from a whole instance on Mastadon for saying that the Apple Safari team looks at every bug request (and they do):

Little fucking Napoleons will ruin social media, not matter what platform.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

You guys are getting notifications? I just notice the lack of upvotes after a while posting into the void.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

I was banned for "Rule 4" which, by digging through their rules (which weren't as easy to find as I expected it to be) I learnt that it was "Illegal content". I literally never posted a comment, post or had ANY kind of interaction on lemmy before. THIS would be my first comment.

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[–] TrickDacy 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Just block the community/instance and move on

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