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MeanwhileOnGrad @sh.itjust.works

Dessalines, .ml admin, head Lemmy dev: "How DARE you say Fuck Russia! That's a CENSORING!"

unions @sh.itjust.works

Unionized Bookstore Facing Backlash

Political Memes @lemmy.world

The Dirty Sock Spitting Truths

World News @quokk.au

No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

Palestine @lemmy.dbzer0.com

No Meals, Fainting Nurses, Dwindling Baby Formula: Starvation Haunts Gaza Hospitals

Palestine @lemmy.dbzer0.com

More than 340 Israeli academics demand entry of aid into Gaza | Middle East Eye (2025-07-27)

World News @quokk.au

Israel’s Ever-Expanding War Machine Is Financed Through International Bond Sales

China @sopuli.xyz

Taiwan voters reject attempt to recall opposition lawmakers

Funny: Home of the Haha @lemmy.world

Important reasons

memes @lemmy.world

Any witcher fans?

Linux @sh.itjust.works

Immich 1.136 Photo and Video Backup Brings Breaking Changes

memes @lemmy.world

In the pot you go

Matrix @programming.dev

Let's Talk About Policy Servers

Fuck Cars @lemmy.world

Is the air you breathe silently fueling dementia? A 29-million-person study says yes

Political Memes @lemmy.world

Lazy moochers

memes @lemmy.world

Thanks, I really needed that ad

TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world

Trade offer!

Linux @sh.itjust.works

Linux on Snapdragon X Elite: Linaro and Tuxedo Pave the Way for ARM64 Laptops

postmarketOS @programming.dev

Call for testing: merged /usr migration

Rust @programming.dev

This Week in Rust 609 · This Week in Rust

  • Lol I asked that awhile back and the general consensus was "It's a whatever comm, post your heart just don't spam"

  • O.M.G.! A built-in reminder bot??

    The Boost dev confirmed he was working on PieFed support the other day and now I definitely can't wait to move over! LMAO

  • Just crossposting from .ml as always lol, I have started posting to !privacy@programming.dev, but in this case when I did my run through it was already crossposted there, so I just went to the next one

    I mean, afterall, what could be better than having 2 privacy comms beating the .ml version 😂

  • Bruh, why are you so rude?

  • Lol it had found its way (via a different user) to the .ml meme comm where I picked it up for cross-posting. But yea, already upvoted there since it was on !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

  • That's not actually that simple of a question, so don't feel bad lol

    It's not a code issue, but Lemmy is written in Rust and while being a pretty decent language, it is also a bit of a difficult one to master. So there's just not a whole lot of open source capable Rust devs out there who can take on such a commitment. If Lemmy had been written in any number of popular languages, like JavaScript, C#, Python etc it probably would have been forked awhile ago just because of the .ml issues

    If it's a Lemmy specific issue, why is being federated with .ml more important than the health of the wider verse?

    There are a few reasons that crop up, 1) .ml still has some very niche comms that haven't been created elsewhere and heavyish traffic (which I hope to fix with the boycotting) and 2) if an instance "burns the bridge" there's concern that dessalines would take it personally and be less likely to help an instance admin on technical issues

    Many think that migrating to PieFed long term will be the way forward which is an alternative to Lemmy without any political baggage. That or someone rewrites Lemmy in a more opensource friendly language and then it can be a drop in replacement for instance admins lol

    But yea, there's concern that this Tankie culture they cultivate as currently preventing wider uptake and damaging the outside rep of the Threadiverse

  • Welcome! This comm serves as a place for documentation of tankies on the Threadiverse. My megathread here has a slightly longer intro

    But, in a nutshell, lemmy.ml is one of 3 instances that are mostly run by Tankies (Those who simp for authoritarian governments that merely claim to be communistic (China/NK) or otherwise "fighting against the evil west" (Russia)) known as the "Tankie Triad". So they'll do things like spread the Russian narrative that Ukraine is "full of Nazis".

    They'll also censor you (and later, ban) if you post things they deem to be against their "ideology" under one of 2 instance "catch-all" rules. Rule 1 - "No Bigotry" or Rule 2 - "Be respectful.

    Yours got censored under catchall rule 1, no bigotry.

    The unfortunate problem with .ml is that it also has the notoriety as being the "dev run instance " as well, so most instances are quite hesitant to defederate from them, unlike the other 2 instances (Hexbear and Lemmygrad) who are largely considered to be worse than .ml and widely defederated from. The main devs, dessalines and Nutomic are, unfortunately, hardcore Tankies. Nearly all censoring actions on .ml though are done by dessalines and another admin, davel.

    So the next best thing we can do as users is a general call to "boycott" their instance and not post comments or posts on a .ml comm. To choose to post to and grow other alternative comms that are off-.ml, no matter how big the comm on .ml looks (this also just leads to a better overall healthier Threadiverse). And to document things as we go, like I've done here

  • Aww yea, the Threadiverse is in the big leagues now!

  • Do you WANT restricted access‽ Better do what the scamm legit support person wants!

  • Unfortunately, Chuck Mangione was the third :(

  • I think your instance might be a tad behind on federation, I had fixed it like within a minute after posting lol

  • In fact, forget the app

  • Ż̵̢̥͚͈̰͈̾́̂̓͠i̶̟͌̽̈́̀̐ó̵̹͒̐n̴̟͍̙̘͑̽̐̀͝͠͝i̶̙̳̱̼͋̂͆̔͝ͅs̷̨̰̻͍̞̀̀̅͜t̴̨̍ in zalgo seems rather fitting 😂