Lemmy.ml is under heavy boycott and I run an effort to crosspost all good content from them to the closest relevant comm, see the spoiler for more
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
> >I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms. > >Megathread on the issue > >Some highlights from the link: > >>Dessalines, head .ml admin, lead Lemmy dev actively spreading genocide denialism sh.itjust.works/post/61371958 >> >>.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia lemmy.world/post/29222558 >> The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: lemmy.world/post/18236068 >> >>“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/27352415 >> >>"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/30580167 >> >>“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/30673342 >> >>“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev lemmy.world/post/31595035 >> >>General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin lemmy.world/post/27426510 > >And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long. > >I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda > >On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
Bryllyg@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
I think it is because you posted it to .ml and this account that reposted it is doing so on purpose. You may want to take a looj at this thread.
https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/7039
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Thank you. I read the info you provided, and I have a question: WTF is a “tankie?”
Anyway when I posted that cute meme, I had to choose a community from a drop-down list and I chose the first one that looked relevant, so I guess I chose WRONGLY, now I have to make a conscious effort to avoid .ml instances now?
Zoop@beehaw.org 2 days ago
You may want to check out Beehaw’s Humor community that welcomes memes, Chat (where you’re welcome to vent,) and the FOSS/open source one, where F-Droid talk is very welcome.
Beehaw_Girl@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Thank you, and do you wanna hear something funny? When I was about to say “thank you,” my brain decided to say it in Russian for some reason and thought it would be cute to tell you “спасйбо” but then I quickly remembered the entirety of this discussion thread, and Russia bad right now.