Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling!

I wish feddit.org blocked lemmy.ml. I keep getting vitriol and queerphobia from their users.

I'm lucky to not have been too exposed to most of their tankie apologetics for authoritarians, but I did notice a pretty staggering number of them were under the impression that Trump and Harris were literally identical.

And no, I don't mean in the "the democrats are center right and often vote similarly to republicans on many issues" 'identical' view, I mean "They both do an equally bad amount of things, just in different areas, and neither is worse than the other" 💀

What’s the easiest way for me to block and hide it?

i found out earlier how to block instances like hexbear and ml.

Yeah, blocked hexbear too.

Those people are absolutely fucking unhinged and do not engage in any sort of good faith argument.

After one round, I got name called, after round two asking for clarification, I just left.

Time is precious, the squirrels in my yard are more coherent than these chucklefucks.

Hell, even two crows would be better

I appreciate this. Id been gone from Lemmy for a bit but just unsubbed from all the .ml groups I had.

Lemmy .ml is partly why I switched to an instance which defederates them. The admin and mod behavior over there is gross. If it weren't run by the Lemmy devs it would be widely blocked.

You know, the differing opinion isn't so bad. It's that they're such pricks.

Lemmy.ml seems to just downvote different opinions in masse without responding with respect.

After a few attempts to engage respectfully and just getting negative interactions I just blocked them entirely.

I just block every site and user with that ending that I see. I've been banned on almost any of their sites anyway.

I feel sorry for you that this is how you spend your free time.

I was against blocking them because i dont want to create an echochamber(and i still support this on an instance level) but after they banned me and just keep downvote bombing anyone whos not a fucking poo tin or whinnie boot licker i had to block them.

I tried to tolerate .ml because they've got some good linux and foss focused communities. Ultimately I decided it wasn't worth it.

I joined Lemmy in November. By New Years I had independently figured out what was wrong with .ml and its users.

The less of that garbage, the better.

This just made me realise my feed is just that bit cleaner and there's so much less news, it's actually quite calming.

"Known propaganda outlets (like RT)"

Sorry but... What's RT mean in this context? Rooster Teeth? I've got no clue.

cause nobody wants to get dragged into a ten page discussion about why China and Russia are the most democratic countries in the world

> dotworld user

Pot calling the kettle shit tbh

Every time a ml/hexbear community that I might be interested in pops up on my feed, I block it, then manually search for a non-tankie version of the same thing and immediately subscribe. The amount of pro-authoritarian content I've been exposed to has dramatically dropped.

In a recent discussion in the Matrix chat, it was mentioned that donations to support development have recently fallen off quite steeply. I mentioned my reason for not donating anymore is because I can't support anyone who runs an instance like .ml. @nutomic@lemmy.ml said I could donate directly to him since he doesn't do as much moderation over there, but also mentioned that donations for development go towards server costs for .ml. Hell no.

Boo ya'll suck

Propaganda on the internet? Oh great heavens!

Thanks for the heads up, just added to my block list.

I'm kinda still new here, so thanks for the info! I think I've figured out how to block the instance, but is there a guide on blocking or something or a way to check?

I got banned to 40 days from .ml memes for arguing that the republicans were worse than the democrats or something mild like that.

Like it or not, we can shine a light and hope they see.

I am as libertarian (as opposed to authoritarian) as they come, and I still hope I (and others who share my sentiment) will be able to convince them the merits of a world with human rights, diplomacy, and freedom — that is not needlessly violent and forceful.

We can move past barbarism, but to do so we must define what comes next to those who have shut their hearts to the truth — especially to those who have spent arguably too much time reliving the horrific violence of the 20th century.

I don't need to boycott them, I don't feel the need to block them. Everybody is within their rights to do so though, but I will keep slowly trying to win them over to the idea of a more kind and free world.

Creating Lemmy and the fediverse is of incredible value to humanity. They provided a timely medicine to the internet — a decentralized platform that is not controlled by an American corporation and ruled by algorithms. I don't feel like it's a lost cause to do my best.

I actually like seeing their posts on my main account. It allows me to keep up with their lingua franca, so I can more easily identify their alts on normal instances, so I know not to attempt to engage in good faith.

I think the whole "saying anything different from what we like? You're banned" thing is also playing a good part.

could you pls put the exclamation marks on the links to those posts in the same way you did for !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ?

thanks for this concise list of stuff .ml has done btw

so thats why ive been seeing so much communist propaganda lately

Fuck Ukraine. Nazi state

Idk, I personally find that ML isnt that bad. Granted I may be a bit biased as a leftist but when I discuss my Anarchist positions I see significantly less censorship than world. Furthemore whenever I see massive Transphobic spam attacks its 9/10 from world. In addition I have had far more genuene conversations on ml communities and with ml users. However I cannot say the same for world users/communities which are known to shut down discussion by calling it "tankie" (yes even Anarchist discussion). Due to that it has become abundantly clear to me that the term "tankie" has very little if anything to do with authoritarianism and everything to do with leftism.

Thanks for the recap. I kinda get the instance federation stuff, but not fully. I realize they are flagship or whatever, but it aint like its that big a ship, even on the biggest one. Is there any consideration of defederating them now?

I'm on Mbin and started on Kbin, so I've tied my cart to a sequence of single devs. But, are there any Lemmy devs who aren't connected to ML?

I've had them muted on Boost for a while, haven't missed 'em XD

@ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone

Thanks for the recap!

Anyone wanna remind me how to block an entire instance? I’m on Fedia, if that matters.

Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse’s overall growth and outside reputation.

Those admins you say are hurting lemmy are literally the developers who made it.
Also, fuck growth. It's the cancer that drives enshittyfication and destroys our planet.

What I wish is that you didn't need to depend on your instance to block other instances so much, but that it was easier to block comments and posts coming from those instances at a personal level. It is very buggy in some instances. I also wish that when a user that is blocked or banned from an instance or the user of a comment or a post they are replying to, it would indicate so. It isn't that there is no reply to what they are saying, it's that we are not bothering with it, and that would make it obvious when it happens.

Russia won ww2 get over it

You can use any instance you want, except well...