wahming

@wahming@lemmy.world

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wahming OP ,

Oh huh, I was not aware of the existence of that one. Looks like the mod has abandoned it, though it's peaceful enough for now. Wonder if SJW has a way to transfer communities?

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy's massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It's been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let's say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they're what's colloquially referred to as...

wahming ,

I've been banned from .ml for being a 'racist' for being anti-Xi, despite the fact that I am Chinese, and pointed out my ethnicity as such in the discussion. I guess antisemitic Jews aren't the only weird accusation getting thrown about nowadays.

wahming ,

You claim Zelensky is illegitimate and authoritarian for not holding elections in the middle of a fight for the country's survival. The logic there is hilariously bad. Setting aside the absolute waste of resources, the last thing any country needs in such a scenario is for their leaders to start campaigning over who's going to take control. It's not the time and place for it. If you want to blame anybody, blame Russia

wahming ,

Yep, the horror. I absolutely deserved an instance-wide ban for the terrible things I said.

I do love the amount of facts and proof that is been dug up and displayed in this post, many thanks to all those going to the effort!

wahming ,

Because South Korea is not actively trying to wipe out NK from existence, but actually the opposite is trying to reach out to NK and stabilise relations. 'War' is a hilarious way to describe their status. Way to strawman the argument.

wahming ,

Oh you mean the deal where they tried to make their seizure of Crimea legitimate?

Ok, this is reaching russian troll levels of disinformation. I think it's clear enough to any 3rd parties just why you're getting your comments deleted.

wahming ,

mass-exodus on that basis just isn’t how things should work in 2024.

Why not? You've made an assertion without any reason backing it up.

Nobody's suggesting a mass exodus to a single lemmy server, but rather just a dispersal from .ml to the rest of the fediverse. There's no reason it can't or shouldn't happen.

wahming ,

The issue at hand is there are way too many neutral / unrelated communities which are resident on .ml, and it'd be nice if we could manage to move some of them off.

wahming ,

It's not the community mods abusing their power, it's the admins of .ml. Their rule #1 is 'no bigotry', which sounds nice but gets interpreted in very... creative ways.

wahming ,

Using the website interface, you can go to your settings and block specific instances from there.

wahming ,

Well yes, that's what this entire post is about. My comment is just replying to OP that it's a little bit more than 'block and move on'.

wahming ,

I've read it multiple times. None of it quite addresses why we can't just move communities away from .ml en masse. From the votes I'm not the only one having trouble discerning your point.

wahming ,

So your wall of text boiled down to 'we can, but we won't because nobody cares'. That's pretty different from 'that's not how things should work in 2024'.

You can dream that that’s how communities ought to work but they just don’t.

Ironically, that's how most of us ended up here on lemmy, we as a community decided to move off reddit.

wahming ,

Nah you're overthinking it. Grab a beginner friendly distro like Mint and just start using it. All this is fanboy talk that can be interesting but doesn't affect 99% of users.

wahming ,

The Wandering Inn handles this well, where to hit large milestones you need not just xp but self development.

wahming ,

Yep!

wahming ,

The ban was initiated by lemmy.world, how is this the wrong instance?

wahming ,

Yes, that's what defederation is all about.

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    wahming ,

    An aide with the Biden Harris campaign said the individuals were among a group of people that weren’t allowed to attend the event because they had previously disrupted and shut down events with Democratic elected officials.

    Seeing as there's been no denial, I'm guessing this is the truth.

    wahming ,

    Yeah, worded in such a way as to make it seem false. And you can't even blame it on the article editor

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