For a group that considers .world to be Reddit 2.0 and a "CIA propaganda front" they seem to get awfully mad whenever it comes up
On our own instance no less lmao
Inb4 YoU CaN jUsT bLOcK uSsSSs
Before joining Lemmy: "It really doesn't matter what instance you join, you'll be able to see content from all over."
After joining Lemmy: "So you've enlisted in .world, eh? Welcome to the fight, soldier!"
.ml vs .world fights are always hilarious. And for that reason, they should stay federated.
If they ever defederated, it would be incredibly disruptive since certain communities exist mostly on one or the other.
I’m on lemmy.ml and most of the communities I interact with are on lemmy.world. Most people are normal about it.
I started on .ml and had the same experience.
The only reason I quit is because the 0.19 update finally made TOTP not suck ass, I decided to activate it on my account, I had a skill issue with my digital keyring that caused me to lose my secret, and my session cookie in my Lemmy app eventually expired. Didn't sign up with an email either so no account recovery was in the cards.
Generally, I don't think most people bother to read the instance suffixes on usernames at all unless the comment is somehow inflammatory. I sure don't.
If just for the purpose of avoiding centralisation, I think we should make an effort to not have everything on .world.
But I agree, it’s my personal opinion that my instance should defederate from ML on grounds of genocide denial.
If it worked like that, everyone would have defederated .world cca December 2023.
So did the United Nations Human Rights Council, two years ago. https://www.euractiv.com/section/eu-china/news/setback-for-the-west-un-body-rejects-historic-debate-on-chinas-human-rights-record/
Of the people who say anything about it, there seems to be two mutually exclusive camps of people on Lemmy in regards to how it should be structured.
There's those who want it to be a drop-in replacement for whatever platform they migrated from (Reddit, ususally), with everything cultured in one simple, easy-to-browse place where there's enough activity to support diversity, just without the enshittification, even though the centralization they crave is exactly what invites the enshittification...
...and then there's those who specifically want the site to stay fragmented, because that's the whole point of federation, it keeps out all the riff raff, and prevents the platform from losing what makes it so great. But many of them complain about why it isn't growing as fast as they'd like it to, despite the fact that the fragmentation of community is by far the single greatest barrier preventing the mass adoption they yearn for.
Each one seems to want a piece of what the other has.
To be fair, if Lemmy's discoverability wasn't trash you could probably have both. I would love to have a bunch of small instances that were focused on individual topics, like Star Trek or anime or knitting or gardening or whatever and just jump between them. It feels like that's what federation was built for.
But because Lemmy is so small right now and discoverability is so bad it seems like almost every instance is either intentionally a tech / general purpose one or so adjacent it might as well be. As long as there's just one community for that thing that people can find that would be great, but instead there are like 10 spread around 3 different instances and 8 of them are dead and 1 just bot reposts the subreddit - and it's really hard to tell which is which. Like, if everything was actually on one instance at least you could just list everything.
Hey, guys. So, I haven't received any of my payouts from the CIA yet and I have pocket knives and stuff to buy, so... Is there like somebody in HR I can email about this or something?
It's all funny but I thought it weird how .world deleted most pro Luigi posts that first week.
YoU CaN jUsT bLOcK uSsSSs
But that’s where all the funny shit is. The collective .ml take on most things is comedy gold!
Good lord, and any criticism of an authoritarian communist government and they expose just how much they love the taste of boots.
"authoritarian communist" is an oxymoron to begin with. how can you build a society where everyone is equal by enforcing authority
I would tolerate them a little more if it weren't for the constant brigading.
Wanna analyze Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory, self-crit, and all that good stuff? Fine by me, I like discussion of varying viewpoints. But often it's not about that but are bad faith arguments and whataboutisms about how the decadent West is ruled by the US and how Putin/Kim/Xi did nothing wrong.
It's exhausting. I don't go into their subs and rattle on about liberal market economics.
Chronically online posting
Is this a shitpost?
It's caused shit in the comments.
Inb4 YoU CaN jUsT bLOcK uSsSSs
Sorry for being late to the party, but did you know that you can just block them? Hope this helps!
I mean.. it helps. I've seen less tankies after blocking .ml subs, but they're still there
Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.
In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.
This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.
This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click "Settings".
At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says "Blocks".
Here you will see "Block user" "Block community" and "Block instance". Click the down arrow below "Block instance".
This will open up a search bar. Type "lemmy.ml" and click it after it shows up.
That's it! You've blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don't need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!
But wait, we aren't done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under "Block user". Now type "UltraGiGaGigantic" Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.
Ah yes, but you do not fear .ml, you only bring it up all the time and demand it be blocked for everyone on .world because...? You can just block it yourself, putting it in spongebob case doesn't make that point invalid.
Same single .world user making all these posts.
Duly noted. Blocking this one along with the other serial whiners.
So? It’s the same .ml users complaining.
Nice Ad Hominem you got there.
Doesn't change a thing though.
Man all i did was just chose an instance...
Yeah unfortunately it is one of the flagship instances and also is run by a transphobe and a guy who thinks Stalin did nothing wrong who will ban you for any opinion slightly deviating from the hivemind he's created. Really sucks, because a lot of people don't know this until they already made their acct and by the time they learn about it the sunk cost fallacy takes over because they "don't want to lose their comments" by moving to a more neutral instance.
It's by design of course, either the new conscripts relent and join their ranks or just go along to get along, or they don't and they get banned while reinforcing .ml's victim complex they so desperately cling to.
Every comment I get from .ml is just weird and bad. I'm really at the point of blocking the whole instance.
The plural of anecdote is not data, but 90% of comments that I've seen defending russia in particular had been from .ml
It worked wonders for me
One non hateful comment. Have a nice Weekend fella!
Though since everyone hates this instance I am thinking about moving to another.
I had to block them after trying not to. I originally thought, meh I'll see what they have to say. That lasted less than a year. They think the word rice is racist.
I'm pretty happy to be off .world and exposed to the slightly wider 'verse. The MLs and Hexbears aren't all that bad. I've seen some absolute dogshit leftist takes from some of them, but I've seen plenty of dogshit "centrism" on .world too.
Ultimately, you just have to do some of your own blocking/moderating work, while trying to remember that only anarchists are always right and to be patient while everyone else catches up.
yeah .world has some weird vibes, I don't think it's exactly centrist but I don't like how the vocal ones there seem to have a superiority complex against ml, hexbear and lemmygrad.
I don't like many of the communities on these instances either but I don't think that .world users should be the ones to hold the power and cry to the wider fediverse when we don't do exactly what they do
the vocal ones there seem to have a superiority complex against ml, hexbear and lemmygrad.
Those vocal ones who tend to call 'genocide denial' and 'genocide apologia' have a track record of supporting Israel in Gaza or outright glorifying Imperial Japan and chinese warlords. They're well aware of the absurdity, which is the point of their drive to enter leftist spaces.
The same folk tend to enter lgbtq and trans spaces to gatekeep definitions there--where they also get banned and then complain about it.
These instances wars really prove that people attack other people because of any difference they can find.
You just know something really rattled OP and made them post this
Honestly, it’s kinda sad how much people care about what instances other people are on. Just because someone is on a certain instance that has some people who may have bad opinions and do certain things that aren’t right doesn’t mean everyone on that instance is to blame.
Secondly, you obviously don’t hate the instance that much considering how much content you re-upload from there, or are you just “getting your own back” because you think people on that instance shouldn’t be able to upload their content?
Thirdly, the fediverse was designed to have multiple instances with multiple communities, so trying to get other instances you specifically don’t like de-federated kinda goes against the point.
And finally, you dislike .ml and their devs that much that you use a different instance on the platform they made. So going back to point 2, you obviously don’t hate them that much because you use the platform they made and also re-upload content from that instance.
Why can’t people just enjoy the content Lemmy has to offer instead of moaning about the few people that may have unsavoury opinions or views? The world is full of people with unsavoury opinions and views, do you go out and look past all the good people or do you stress and care that much about the people who aren’t so good?
(Also, idc if I get downvoted, it’s just a number on the internet. I’m simply here to enjoy content and bring content to the platform, that’s all. I don’t personally think all this moaning is worth it, but hey, here I am.)
Especially considering there are like twelve people on every instance combined
Verifiably false,
By raw user count, lemmy.world and even Lemmynsfw.com are individually bigger than .ml (no idea what's up with that alien.top)
And by MAUs, .ml just barely makes the top 5
Lot of words typed for a person with nothing to say
Really only see weirdly online .world users making posts about it.
There are over a trillion hectares of free real estate in those minds. Manifest destiny is back for .ml. Who new the market place of ideas could be so scary?
Lmao
Yes what the fuck is up with that? If you don't like marxism-leninism, you can keep that to yourself. Stop shoving your politics down everyone's throats with these cringe-ass memes. Just having a .world account makes me feel second-hand embarrassment for people like op
these memes are always so tortured, the reason I comment in these threads is because it's funny content and routinely the actual reasons people are mad at .ml is getting banned/censored for being bigoted
What would ya'll do without each other though?
I've seen more complaining about ml than the actual things they're complaining about. It's pointless infighting among an otherwise like minded community. Even hexbear doesn't deserve it.
Calm down. Have a hot chocolate and enjoy the season and masturbate thinking about linux to distract from societal collapse like the rest of us.
I've been banned from the entire .ml instnce and all its communities for daring to talk about the uyghur genocide.
Yes, we need to defederate now.
I like being able to see news not dictated by Western media which somehow all turn out to be controlled by Israel.
Are we surprised the latest troll community (heckbear got defederated hardcore) wants people to troll?