Comment on Hypersensitive tankie mod

Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Instances operated by pro-Russian or pro-BRIC groups that have no interest in dissenting opinion and often spill out into the rest of the fediverse posting anti-western propaganda.

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  • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Basically, it’s flat Earth theory but for geopolitics. They believe the exact opposite of what everyone else does so they can have a tight-knit community devoted to being smugly superior to the sheeple.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      That’s a good way of putting it

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  • lennybird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Hexbear falls under this umbrella, right?

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    • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Absolutely. Hexbear seems like the most insular and loud one of all. Lemmy.ml can be fairly normal sometimes just because it’s the OG site and gets a lot of general traffic.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      They defederated ages ago.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Instances operated by pro-Russian or pro-BRIC individuals/groups

    “Everyone I Don’t Like is Hitler An Evil Foreigner”

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  • lil@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I don’t believe lemmy.ml’s are pro russian, at least not in that way.

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    • Hubi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      It’s not as bad as Lemmygrad but most News-threads about Russia/China/Ukraine are a total shitshow over there.

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  • PanoptiDon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Does this break the rules of the fediverse?

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    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      What rules?

      The rules are what each instance operator makes them (outside of breaking laws). It’s up to the other instance operators to defederate from instances that they don’t want direct sharing with for whatever reasons. So if lemmygrad wants to be anti-west, make anti-western posts, comment on current events and insinuate or blame the West for whatever, post trolling comments or fake news, that’s what will happen.

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      • CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Even breaking laws could fare fine if they’re unimportant enough. A child porn instance would have cops breaking down the server room door, but I’m pretty sure there’s already piracy-friendly instances, and a shoplifting one can’t be far behind.

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• Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  They’re something to add to your block list.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Thanks. I wanted to create a Lemmy account and this one seemed like the the most generic default one, huge user base, ran by the Lemmy devs, all right surely it’s the safest, most non-controversial choice.

    Then I see stuff like this.

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  • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    How to block? And I’m still a bit confused about instances. How do I know which I joined?

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    • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You’re on lemmy.world

      You can go to lemmy.world/settings click the blocks tab up top, and then add instances to block in there, in the box marked “Black instance”.

      I think lemmy.world has already defederated lemmygrad and hexbear, so you should just need to add lemmy.ml

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      • Lumisal@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Thank you!

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