So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese axriciry in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy’s version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?
just block the lemmy.ml instance and if you start to feel annoyed by the hexbear, block that one too. You will not notice any loss
I thought y’all are defederated from hexbear
Hexbear defederated from everyone, but everyone didn’t defederate from Hexbear.
Truly a bubble into themselves. Let’s see where that cycle leads them.
my instance doesn’t defederate from anyone
This is the way. I would prefer local blocking to complete defederation, because then the onus is on me.
It sounds good to let each user decide for themselves, but you must remember that these instances that you as a user block still get to have influence on voting. So even if you block all the instances you don’t want to have an influence, they’ll still have an influence on your feed.
Not defederating from anything is not the best path if you want to shut out an instance.
The problem is some people are gullible. Yeah we’ll I know it’s their problem. But I can’t help to have some concern for my fellows in the internet. Though I also recognize their freedom to choose for themselves. It’s truly a conundrum. Where does concern stop and overstepping start eh?
Maybe because you are a concern troll posting criticisms to further the imperial interests of the US, the most evil government in the world by far.
You’re being downvoted not only because of your position but because this is a very rude and hostile tone.
If you are trying to introduce people to a perspective outside of the norms for their community, this is a very ineffective way to do it.
I’m being down voted because this is a concern troll thread. Take your tone policing somewhere else.
Nah bro you came here to start shit and you did. Not sure why that surprises or upsets you. If you don’t like it then behave differently.
Nah bro you are a propagandized idiot. I need to block you to reject the psychic damage of you and your child like analysis.
True. Shitlib gonna seething.
Amen. Down with the empire of evil crapitalism and greed galore.
Oh yeah. Biden good. Better than Winnie the Pooh. I want Biden to have my children! We sit around all day and make fun of gyna! Gyna smelly bad!
What the fuck is this even supposed to mean?
WHAT U NO HEAR ME? I SAY BIDEN GOOD! GO JOE! YO JOE! GI JOE! A REAL AMERICAN HERO!
واقعا نمیتوانم باور کنم چطور بعضی ها فکر میکنند
That’s because the instance was ml. I regularly criticize them in world for their absurd actions.
I’m confused. Few months ago people were complaining the exact opposite for lemmy.world and to switch to lemmy.ml. Not China specifically, but dissenting views.
What was your account?
Let me guess, lemmy.ml?
Called it! Just checked the post.
I ran into something similar a couple days ago:
I wrote a comment critical of Chinas actions in Africa, which was silently deleted after it got traction. When I looked at the mod log, my comment was not listed. Checked back on my comment, checked the mod log from another machine. Nothing.
Just silently and covertly removed without any trace of who and why. Has me really suspicious
That tracks. China’s (imperialist) abuse of Africa isn’t the message they want out there. They frame it as win-win collaboration
Right. More like win and give up your sovereign right and decision making autonomy on all of the world bodies.
You mean the comment in technology@lemmy.world about “bootleg videos of Chinese foremen in in Africa” that shows in Modlog as being removed by mod for “Racist stereotyping”?
Yes, that one. I don’t mind so much the removal as the odd secretiveness I observed. Where are you seeing that correct mod log? When I tried looking at the reason the removal action was not in the log, which is what my main issue is/was. I even tried from my phone and computer to the same result
If I make an inappropriate comment (in the heat of the moment) in whatever community it’s totally fine if they remove it but I would at least like to know why.
I just pulled up the modlogs on lemmy.zip and entered your username.
So if I comment on .world, and a mod there removes the comment, I have to check my home instance mod log?
I see what you mean about it not showing in logs on lemmy.world. Given the “carnist rhetoric” one shows I’m betting on it being a bug. Lemmy has many bugs and Modlog federation is especially buggy from what I’ve seen.
You Have Been Banned For Breaking The Terms Of Service. Our Terms of Service Are Byzantine And Who Are We Kidding? Nobody Is Manually Administering This Shit. But That Means There’s No Appeals Process. So Politely Fuck Off, We’re Done Actually Soliciting Content From People. Now We Just Want You Rubes To Give Us Your Money.
Pretty much same as reddit, right?
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thanks for the heads up. I just unjoined all lemmy.ml communities, and blocked the instance. That sort of censorship is not a good thing.
Read the comments. Apparently some of their ilk are here too.
Good, that way it’s easier to block them, no need to look for them elsewhere.
You see them all over the place.
Some of them came here from Reddit when chapo trap house got banned. Others are straight up BRICS propaganda accounts.
Ok what even the hell is BRICS at this point? It’s geopolitical “stop trying to make Fetch happen!” by now, two of it’s members are in active decline, one is at the edge of being a failed state, and the other two are about as actually committed to some kind of anti-western bloc as the average American prison is to respecting human rights.
Yep. It’s a joke. Was always going to be a joke. Maybe without authoritarian assholes leading the two largest members it could have become something.
ml is usually decent. Hexbear is where things go off the rails
The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml
LOL! There ya go.
Lemmygrad
Even worse.
Yep.
Fastest way to get banned there is to give valid criticism of China or Russia.
One of the Tankiest of tankie instances
Why do tankies stan for Russia? Nostalgia?
hurr durr america bad therefore anything that is against america good
they’re either useful idiots, or fascists in red coating utilizing said idiots
Sow disinformation about the west, erode tust.
Now, bear in mind I’m acutely aware of the strengths of china, and the failings of the us, but when the 300lb gorilla is in your backyard eyeing your kids, you get involved with the gorilla, and keep and eye on what is happening in office politics and in the neighbours yard.
They want a strong daddy to tell them what to think and do. They’re frightened children.
“The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
Because no likey da Americans
These morons think Iran is a bastion of anti-colonial resistance
Iran
The theocracy
The successor state to one of the longest running imperial projects in human history
The state currently organizing proxies to destabilize it’s neighbors with the intention of letting a puppet state take all of it for integration within it’s sphere of influence
That Iran.
Tankies have no values and even fewer brain cells.
I wonder where they’re all from? Are they living in the US?
A few are Canadians who think letting the prairie provinces have nice things will lead to the second war of 1812, but yeah, they’re almost always bougie US kids. Why I always call them Bougyeviks.
All the ideology, none of the actual connection to the people who need the most help
Inability to hold nominally conflicting ideas. You can be a socialist and be against the actions of countries that claim to be socialist. Likewise you can be capitalist and be against the actions of countries that claim to be capitalist.
Tankies love fascist dictatorships. That’s their whole shtick.
Yep, this.
They are convinced they are gonna be part of the ruling class, So they fucking love fascist authoritarian dictatorship.
The overwhelming irony is that they would most likely be the ones purged, not the ones ruling.
Because there are reactionaries. It’s like PETA or angry vegans who are in it for the moral superiority rather than making the world a better place.
Isn’t that the developer instance? Are the developers tanki communists? (I don’t believe a real communist would want to support china OR russia since they aren’t actually communists)
Tankie bitches gonna be tankie bitches.
Lemmy.ml is a tankie instance that loves China and hates western countries. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the biggest Lemmy instances because it’s run by the main devs of Lemmy (who created Lemmy because they were frequently banned on other sites for bootlicking for China). Thankfully, Lemmy is open source and the nature of how it runs allows everyone to ignore the weird ideologies of the devs.
It’s one of the only 3 instances I block. All tankies bullshit.
what are the other two?
I thought I was only blocking two but it seems I am blocking four
hexbear.net lemmy.ml alien.top lemmygrad.ml
You’ve got my 3. I don’t know anything about alien.top.
alien.top is an instance that scrapes Reddit and mirrors posts and comments, creating bot accounts with the same username as the original poster. The intent was to make it easy for users to migrate away from Reddit (just claim the bot account with your username), but everyone pointed out the obvious ethical problems of mass plagiarizing and how nobody on Reddit can see any replies you make. It was also super spammy and 99℅ of the comments are from those scraper bots, so most instances defederated from them.
I’ve got lemmit blocked for similar reasons. I don’t really know much of it, but that lemmit bot was annoying me and I just sort of assumed the entire instance was probably just Reddit posts so blocked it
Pretty sure that project ended after all the backlash.
West Taiwan big angry
Apparently I make the great yellow peril.
The .ml stands for Marxist /Leninist.
Funny, communists always insist China isn’t communist at all, so why would they care about it being criticized?
Because the only stance that tankies actually hold is “America bad”, to the degree that anyone that is an opponent of America must automatically be good and must be supported at all costs
communists always insist China isn’t communist
I can think of at least 95M Communists who don’t insist this.
But modern American leftists are increasingly in love with China, particularly with their HSR and Tech programs.
Tankies aren’t that type of communist, that is, sane. Tankies are auth rights disguised as leftists.
Potatoes potatoes.
Aren’t tankies authoritarian leftists? What’s “right” about them?
Marx encouraged fascist dictatorships as a method to bring about the proletariat revolution.
And this is why dictators love the, “give me just a little more power and once it’s secured I’ll hand it all back to the people, pinky swear” schtick.
Source?
I love this.
If you go by the origin of the division and their definitions, they certainly are right. Authoritarian gov means centralising power. People arguing for the Ancient Regime were also pushing better for the people rethoric.
Besides, they are supporting a state that is closest to a nazi state. russia.
I disagree, they’re firmly authleft, the problem is “auth.”
Being authoritarian about leftist ideals doesn’t secretly make you right wing because “authoritarian = right wing.” Leftism isn’t “when good,” you can have bad leftists and pretending otherwise is nothing more than delusion.
The communists who say China isn’t communist aren’t the ones that go to bat for them.
Also, Mali
Did the Lemmy developers register the name under the .ml TLD because they are such fans of Mali? Maybe but probably not.
Because the domains are literally free
How to block?
settings/ blocks tab/ block instances at the bottom
Boost app does not seem to be able to block an instance.
Those instances are just satire right?
…right?
lemmygrad is a full-on cult, lemmy.ml is its public front and embassy, and hexbear, well, there’s plenty of idiots on hexbear, the problem with hexbearians isn’t that they’re Stalinists but that they think signal politics does anything, hence also their propensity to pile. At least in the past I think they’ve given up on doing it outside hexbear.
Two of them are practically dead.
Hexbear is just the exodus of ChapoTrapHouse and a few affiliated sites from when Reddit kicked its ban policy into high gear. The Akira Toriyama Megathread and Online Movie Night top-posts seem about as sincere and good natured as anything on any other social media site.
Only if Sino on reddit was as well. Which I thought was when I first came across it.
This is the way
How do I actually block instances?
Anyway fuck tankies
If you’re on the website, just go to settings, block
No, but thanks for the heads up. Lemm.ee seems to be good about that, or I would’ve ruffled every feather in the book almost.
Well it’s run By Estonians, of course they have good reason to dislike Russia.
Lemm.ee is? I didn’t know that. You learn something new every day.
I wish the best for Estonia during these times. Such nice vibes from there.
