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This comment was in response to someone expressing regret about joining .ml if I recall correctly

Edit: I'm convinced all this guy does is camp out in front of his computer and wait for an excuse to abuse what itty bitty power he has.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)
  1. No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

I'm not seeing it, unless website admins are a marginalised class.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bigotry is when you hurt an admin's feelings, of course.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If any Lemmy.ml mods or admins are reading this:

Fuck you. Ban me, bitch.
[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

They won't see it because they censor no-no words.

These same people insist that like-minded adults talking things out will produce a stateless utopia. It's funny, from a distance.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

The lemmy.ml admins who do this kind of thing are proud tankies. Pro-Russia, Pro-China, Pro-North-Korea, authoritarian "communists" are a marginalized class, dontcha know?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I can somehow understand pro-China and less so, but still conceptionally grasp pro-Russia. But how on Earth can you really think NK is not a brainwash concentration camp?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Tankies operate on a very simple belief system.

US bad > Russia don't like US > Russia good

same for north korea, cuba, anything

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

We could call that the Chomsky fallacy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I remember seeing to mod in the post commenting on someone's mention of North Korea. First he posted an image detailing the deaths caused by the US and South Korea during the Korean war, and that was it, no mention about NK specifically. Later he said that there was no proof that NK is brutally repressing its citizens. Then when someone said how everyone who fled NK said so, he said how they only do it for the shock value to get stories out and make money out of that, or something like that.

Basically people like that find anything anti-US as good, and if you say anything bad about those countries, they'll ask for proof and then call whatever you provide fake.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Later he said that there was no proof that NK is brutally repressing its citizens.

lmao

I also don't see anything when I close my eyes and plug my ears.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Basically, "capitalism bad = anything anti-capitalism good." And that's pretty ironic to both support both NK and China for that reason, since China is an authoritarian capitalist state operating under the name of communism.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'm actually glad MLs have ramped up the pro north korea talk recently. I was starting to doubt being against these users that claim to be progressive, but then I saw them defend a clear-cut present-day dictatorship.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They are, they are admins on a .ml instance, being against them is abelism.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not just any admin. Pretty sure that's the lead dev of lemmy and the jerboa android client.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn't really matter. And knowing about how bad the lemmy back end works and the absolute lack of admin and mod tools its just further evidence of their inability.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, I definitely wasn't saying that to imply it somehow makes them better, more that I would hope someone of that level of importance to this shit would learn to just run/build it and stay mostly hands off, not to play in the dirt. At the very least hide behind a separate user name.

So many open source projects get ruined because the creators/maintainers can't stop themselves from getting into fights with their users or community.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

ableism
discrimination in favor of able-bodied people.

That still doesn't check out... unless you're implying they have cognitive impairments that prevent them from moderating as effectively as other instance admins 🤔

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Well yeah. If you couldn't deduce that, you might be a victim of ableism yourself

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago

If you want rationality, don't look for it from tankies.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think that technically speaking, under Marxist theory, admins are the oppressors/tyrants. The users are the proletariat. Of course the metaphor falls apart due to how easily the users can escape and the users don't pay taxes or anything

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

There was rumors that the .ml bouble is China funded. So they kinda are paid for by taxes if true.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Defedding .ml has been one of the most benefitial decisions we have ever made. There's so much less toxicity!

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, ML commenters consistently have some of the worst takes in the thread pretty much anywhere.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Lemmy.cafe is defederated from lemmy.ml? Are you guys defederated from hexbear and lemmygrad too? If so I may have found my new instance :o

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I enjoy reading the posts about how the tianamen massacre never actually happened and how america is to blame for everything and if every country was like China the world would be a utopia

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago

Embarrassing. I can't believe I donated to this guy.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

They banned me recently since I was writing a comment talking about how many "memes" on [email protected] are oftentimes not even memes and just unfunny pushing communist agenda and how I was thinking about blocking the instance. It got a bit too many upvotes from them and I ended up getting banned. So in response I made this meme and posted it to [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

I dunno if scaring people off of their instance's communities is a deliberate attempt at building an echo chamber or just genuine dumbassery.

Honestly thank god the Lemmy devs made a platform that makes it so easy to avoid them.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Slrpnk does the same shit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (99 children)

Oh I got banned from one of their communities today for comparing shooting down Russian drones to skeet shooting

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah, I've stopped any participation in any .ml community. I'll use any other instance version even if it's smaller. I haven't personally blocked the server yet, but it's getting closer.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lmao, that's hilarious. Featured this

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Did he do anything else or was he banned just for expressing his opinion?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

That’s pretty much it to my knowledge but the purged the user so nothing is in the mod logs, of course

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

Classic end of the horseshoe fragility.

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