That's why I'm on Lemmy.World. I made a new account as soon as I found out they were removing posts from people for orientalism. It's great the modlog is so transparent. The greatest thing about having instances run by different people unassociated with each other is you can just do that... go to a different instance where things are much more aligned to you morally.

You have less to worry about here than you do on a place like say Reddit where they can do it pretty discretely and you'd be none the wiser until it happened to you.

The ideological leaning of the developers means nothing on a federated network. What you care about is knowing the ideology of who runs your instance.

You can just as easily fall into a right wing echo chamber by joining the wrong instance. And one that censors any kind of pro Russia or pro China sentiment, which is equally bad, in my opinion.

Propaganda can come from both sides. Just keep your eyes open.

My thoughts are that you should use an instance that is in sync with your ethics. That is the freedom you have with opensource.

To me, this is like Richard Stallman and certain reprehensible actions and opinions](https://rms-open-letter.github.io/).

Just like with Stallman and his contributions to software, I can justify using Lemmy to myself due to it being open source and the devs not directly financially profiting from the spread of Lemmy (although it certainly raises their public profile).

It's definitely unfortunate that they're Tankies.

Well, lemmygrad for sure is run by tankies, that's kinda the point. Most of it doesn't matter. It's not like they can control anything that happens on other instances.

That was the main reason why I switched to lemmy.world; never looked back. Plus, Ruud (the admin of this instance, runs also a Mastodon instance) and actually upgrades the server so it can handle all new traffic. Lemmy.ml is often down because it can't take the heavy load.

There's a public modlog at the bottom of the page; you can use that to see what mods are doing on whichever instance you're on. If there's any truth to that, you'll be able to find proof there.

I have more important things on my mind than internet drama. Don't really care

There are plenty of other instances to join if you don't like the .ml servers' opinions. From what I can see, all tastes are catered for. Just find another server.

And, no, I'm not affiliated with the .ml instances nor am I a so-called Tankie.

I joined via lemmy.world because at the time the stats just looked favorable, with the limited knowledge I had (uptime mostly).

As someone with experience in software engineering you learn to differentiate between the product and the dev.

It's especially easy with Lemmy, because every instance has its own vibe it seems. Would I join lemmygrad or how that instance is called? Probably not, but because it's the users who in the end define the direction of an instance I see no problem.

Freedom of speech is important and if all those tanky instances are about is their agenda, they will end up in an echo chamber sooner or later, as more regular people migrate and simply drown them out.

I just won't post on the tankie instances like I didn't post on the tankie subreddits. And if the instance I'm on starts censoring like that, I'll make an account on a different one.

Don’t like it, don’t read it. The price of freedom is that it is freedom for everybody even for those you (or I) don’t think should be free.

Who cares? We're not on lemmy.ml, are we?

As a Mexican I've been dealing with stupid cartel blogs my whole life, I don't really care anymore. I just vibe with the 99.9% of people that is sane.

Please excuse my ignorance: what’s a “tanky/tankies”?

Here’s a discussion about this: https://lemmy.world/post/24798

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" - John Gilmore

Well today I had someone support the Tienanmen Square massacre, another say the war of aggression in Ukraine is a denazification campaign, argue that nothing is happening untoward to Uighur's in China and assert that Pussy Riot "is a CIA op" lol. Yeah. It's over run with brain dead tankies. They suck. That instance will get defederated eventually if Lemmy actually takes off, and good riddance

Do you have any proof of that? Just curious where you got that from (:

I know the lemmygrad.ml instance claims to be Marxist but I don't think they're generally taken that seriously (and not to be confused with lemmy.ml) - is that what you're confusing? Apart from that, the federal nature of Lemmy means it doesn't really matter what the creator's political beliefs are.

I read this on mastodon talking about it

This is why I chose to join lemmy.world vs. the main instance.