Maybe someday š
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I can block .ml communities in my GUI. But I can't block its users, unless I go 1 by 1. Blocking the communities is big, but not enough.
I think you can block the entire instance, not community by community or user by user.
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You can block it for yourself if that works for you. You don't have to limit other people's options.
It doesn't work, on Lemmy block is nothing more than a mute, and the instance "block" (mute) does not even affect the individual users of an instance, just hides the comms of that instance from your view
Lemmy's "block" still leaves you open to all manner of brigading that they've been known to do
And it still allows conspiracy theories, propaganda and misinformation to spread and fester and affect users who are unaware
They literally have articles over there spreading the Russian propaganda that Putin is justified in invading Ukraine because it's "full of Nazis"
Besides this is the Threadiverse, there will always be an instance with wide federation if you as an individual choose to open yourself up to that kind of "content"
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But they're a dbzero user, not an ML
Edit: I guess those aren't mutually exclusive
Grad, Hex and .ml users have been known to have many alts to help spread their "message"
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After lemm.ee went down I joined ml because it was the largest instance
I didn't know the backstory
.world is Shitlibia so you did fine.
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Just like how NATO is a defensive alliance
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If you could be so kind as to list the number of times NATO has gone on an offensive war, I'll be waiting.
Russia has a history of invading its neighbors, with several notable examples including the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956, Czechoslovakia in 1968, and Afghanistan in 1979. More recently, Russia invaded and occupied Crimea in 2014 and has been involved in conflicts in Georgia and Ukraine.
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Everyone needs a taste of anti-imperialist and non-Western takes, either for their sanity or just for their ideological development. I know Americans are gonna need them since the empire is coming home with full force, for instance. Without them, without 'radicals' like those in .ml, the folks will just be fed a new narrative to curtail their cognitive dissonance (it's the most imperceptible of buzzes for the least cerebral among us but it's still there) and they'll eat it up because that's all they're exposed to. So, no, they should be connected, for the sake of exposure. It's important too for those more .ml-coded to read, post and quickly check the downvote/upvote ratio in .world just like it was/is on big subreddits to get a feel of what the average literate Westerner, who at least considers discussion important (better than your average American, for instance), is thinking/has been fed recently.
By that 'logic' everyone needs a taste of white supremacy, Christian nationalism, Nazis, and so on.
Certain opinions aren't worth giving any consideration to because they're so stupidly, pig-headedly wrong. The street corner preacher frothing at the mouth over LGBTQ people is one, .ml and the former hexbear (world's smallest violin plays a sad song for their passing) instances being prime examples.
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What if the bad actors are admins?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Then .world wouldn't exist
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I like being exposed to opinions I don't agree with and don't like - it makes me feel like I am not just hiding in my bubble. I will admit that there are anti-capitalist threads in there that I agree with.
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I may not like the .ml political stance, but there are definitely people on there that may have non-political things worth listening to, which is why I haven't bothered blocking them. They may have some good opinions on open source software and such. I just avoid their news community because I know I will disagree with them and their stance.
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I like being exposed to opinions I don't agree with and don't like - it makes me feel like I am not just hiding in my bubble. I will admit that there are anti-capitalist threads in there that I agree with.
This would be a fine sentiment if the feeling were mutual with the .ml admins. Their entire thing is aggressive censorship of ideas they disagree with, so if your ideal is free exchange of ideas, then you support the opposite of that by engaging with them.
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I think they are saying it's important that ML people see more nuanced takes. Though without a coherent paragraph structure it's difficult to tell.
The entire fucking issue is that the tankies ban nuanced takes at the drop of a hat.
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By that 'logic' everyone needs a taste of white supremacy, Christian nationalism, Nazis, and so on.
Certain opinions aren't worth giving any consideration to because they're so stupidly, pig-headedly wrong. The street corner preacher frothing at the mouth over LGBTQ people is one, .ml and the former hexbear (world's smallest violin plays a sad song for their passing) instances being prime examples.
Did you just compare anti-imperialist 'content' to pro-Nazi stuff? Anyway, no, it's unethical to be pro-Western imperialism, right is evidently different from wrong, and I agree that not every uttering deserves ears but trust me that every person that's been simmering in pro-war, anti-non white lives (whether it be anti-communist or islamophobic stuff, it just serves to alienate your fellow human being) propaganda since before they came out of the womb only know the wrong side of things and need to at least see some memes and be triggered into self-examination!
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Nah .world would suck all by itself they have their own brand of censorship
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I may not like the .ml political stance, but there are definitely people on there that may have non-political things worth listening to, which is why I haven't bothered blocking them. They may have some good opinions on open source software and such. I just avoid their news community because I know I will disagree with them and their stance.
They can always venture out of .ml. They're much better behaved when they do, which is great for everyone.
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Nah .world would suck all by itself they have their own brand of censorship
wrote on last edited by [email protected]What censorship? I have documented evidence of .ml's rampant censorship
If .world is doing their own flavor then where's the receipts?
Also, .world doesn't need .ml, nobody needs .ml, they only have like 2 comms that don't have a non.ml variant that beats them in MAUs
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Time to change your diaper, OP.
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I may not like the .ml political stance, but there are definitely people on there that may have non-political things worth listening to, which is why I haven't bothered blocking them. They may have some good opinions on open source software and such. I just avoid their news community because I know I will disagree with them and their stance.
The spread of Russian propaganda and misinformation is in large part the reason for a lot of the right-wing BS. There's been articles and documentation of their Misinformation campaign for at least a decade now
"Russia, shit military, fantastic intelligence service" ~A lemming comment I read once but can't find again
We should not be a party to it's continuing spread
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Even the devs are fucking tankies. I'm thinking of moving to PieFed and hope for the best. Been hopping websites all my life anyway.
E: To the people downvoting, here you go: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279
Dessalines is a lead developer of Lemmy-UI.
What's the easiest way to switch instances? I didn't know any of this. I just wanted to get away from reddit and still engage with communities focused on my hobbies...
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What's the easiest way to switch instances? I didn't know any of this. I just wanted to get away from reddit and still engage with communities focused on my hobbies...
Create an account on another other instance and export/import your settings. I don't think it carries over your posts and comments but everything else probably will like your communities, blocks and preferences.
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What censorship? I have documented evidence of .ml's rampant censorship
If .world is doing their own flavor then where's the receipts?
Also, .world doesn't need .ml, nobody needs .ml, they only have like 2 comms that don't have a non.ml variant that beats them in MAUs
OMG nobody fucking cares.
