The shear amount of tankiness over on lemmy.ml is making me seriously consider leaving the platform.
the ml in lemmy.ml stands for Marxist-Leninist…
Oh wow someone finally explained it! Thanks!
it was more of a joke but… yeah I think that might actually have been the intent lol
Well it’s not like they’re based in Mali. Had to have been intentional for that reason.
Mali was the first African country to give away a tld for free. That’s probably why it was used.
It unfortunately is very much the intent, but they don’t want to say that up front because no one would join.
i mean its literally .ml so im not sure exactly what you were expecting? except for most of the reddfugees being directed there, the core demographic is tankies. just use an instance more alligned with your values instead; i use slrpnk.net because well im an Anarcho-Solarist.
and if the tankie content really impacts your enjoyment of lemmy, just block offending users or communities.
i mean its literally .ml so im not sure exactly what you were expecting?
fairly sure that isn’t as obvious for most people as you think it is
People as deep into the ideology as people on here are think the dog whistles are signposts.
I’m on another instance but it’s making me rather uncomfortable that a lot of the traffic is happening on an instance that seems like it’s 90 CCP members and Russian trolls.
yeah thas just the consequence of that instance being linked in a lot of exodus posts… not much we can change but i assume itll equalize out as lemmy grows and people spread out to other instances. ofc that a lot of the communities are on .ml sucks but that too may change with future developments such as multi-community implementations.
lemmy.ml is federated with most other instances (yes, including lemmygrad.ml). I would say the content on lemmy.ml is pretty indicative of the norm across the fediverse. my feed is diverse enough to remain interesting to me without many extreme examples of any sort.
various instances will have different vibes and different local content. find instances that you jive with and you are golden. if those instances generally play nice with the network at large, then their content will be available widely. if not, then just center your experience around the local content on those instances.
federation makes.the best of all worlds avaliable to you.
Yes, the Lemmy devs are tankies and actively deny human rights violations
Honestly they don’t seem to be bothered about denying human rights violations they seem to think they’re a good thing.
Is lemmy.ml just a tankie recruitment zone?
Yes. Check out the comments on this meta post. They ban people for “orientalism” and “sinophobia,” meaning “talking poorly about China.” I was banned because I criticised the Lemmy developer and owner of Lemmy.ml, Dessalines, for denying the Uyghur genocide. Check out the exchange below. You’ll notice that many of the comments and users support China, claim no genocide is occurring, deny the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and even claim China is a democracy. Dessalines has been curating a communist community over there for years. He’s just careful to hide that during signup.
That said, just because one instance is terrible doesn’t mean all other instances are terrible. kbin.social is awesome. Lemmy.world is awesome. There are lots of instances you can interact with which have nothing to do with communism.
Do you have a screenshot of them denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre? I’m not saying that they did not say that, I’m just curious what amount of gymnastics does it take to deny that.
Sadly not, but they removed this comment of mine four days ago, which discussed the TSM. You can find it in the modlog (lemmy.ml/modlog).
Removed Comment > “China has 1.4 billion people. Do you really think they have the ability and/or need to “squash” protests and prevent any protest from ever happening? No. They have a healthy democracy where people are involved in voicing their opinions, and protesting if it ever comes to that. Please stop ingesting so much xenophobic propaganda and learn more about the countries of which you speak.” [quote text of the user to which I was replying]
First, China literally “squashed” hundreds of protesting students in the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. I encourage you to read the harrowing accounts of survivors about how the military used tanks to grind bodies into the ground and then hose them into the sewers. Secondly, China is currently committing ethnic genocide of millions of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Lastly, China isn’t a democracy. Elections in China occur under a political system controlled by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with all candidate nominations pre-approved by the CCP. CCP regulations require members of the People’s Congresses, People’s Governments, and People’s Courts to implement CCP recommendations (including nominations). It blows my mind to find someone who speaks so confidently about something they know so little. If you’re so confident in your proposition, why don’t you fly over to China and try a little protest about Xi. I’ve been to China many times. They made the rules clear to me: if I involved myself in anything political I was liable for life in prison or even execution. by @JasSmith
no, that’s lemmigrad.
Only Reddit neoliberal crybabies whine about “tankies”. From what I can see it’s mostly baseless accusations/smear campaign because as I said, they are crybabies who cannot deal with the real world. It’s an open source project. His views are not relevant to the discussion and not particularly that uncommon outside of isolated Westerner bubbles. Spez the Reddit CEO was the moderator of a paedophile subreddit (jailbait) but nobody is up in arms about that or concerned about going back if the API changes are rolled back. Those people are as lost as old people who love FoxNews, Facebook or any other commercially charged propaganda vehicle.
These leftists you hate so much have done something good. They’ve seized the means of communication for you. It’s open source and decentralised, it’s up to you (the community) what to do with it. If you are hardstuck on this then I feel bad for you son, I got 99 problems but the dev ain’t one.
It’s not such a bad combination to be a tankie and an open source software developer.
It’s a problem to be a tankie and an admin/mod for the flagship instance.
It’s only a problem if you allow your personal worldview to affect your moderation… a tendency that sadly most moderators have. I’ve found lemmy.ml to be one of the more permissive instances where viewpoints of all sides are permitted. Unfortunately many others (you know who you are) are in danger of becoming walled gardens and echo chambers.
There’s a large overlap between people who are sympathetic to terrible dictators and people who would be happy to be dictators
