Soon after I joined Lemmy a few years ago, I searched for communities based on my interests and subscribed to the ones with the highest numbers of users to ensure they are active. Sometimes I joined multiple, but then saw that some people post the same thing to more than one, cluttering my feed, so I left the smaller ones.
It’s only after my community ban from !games@hexbear.net for disagreeing about Ukraine that I was told about MeanwhileOnGrad, learning exactly what “the tankie triad” means and why big Lemmy instances have defederated from those. Lemmy.ml, where the ML probably stands for Marxist-Leninist, seems to have been defederated by fewer, possibly because it’s run by the creator of Lemmy, Dessalines. Nevertheless, there is evidence of Dessalines holding the same authoritarian communist views as the rest.
Recently, there were two posts on !privacy@lemmy.ml about Signal, but then in both cases, admin davel (who is known on MoG for seeing CIA’s hand in running Ukraine, among other things) and Dessalines linked (1, 2, 3) the same article by Dessalines, which not only argues Signal could be a CIA honeypot (as if it matters when proper e2ee is used), but also manages to shoehorn China even into that, claiming its government “prefers autonomy”. This sort of portrayal of totalitarianism as sovereignty is the reason I unsubscribed from the community. As it has been said by others, ML is not a neutral instance but a means of pushing authoritarian views onto unsuspecting users.
Edit: Made the post title clearer.
I got banned from their privacy instance for 3 days because of something that, imo, barely is justified by the rules they cited, while other people were being insufferably hostile. It may be one of the same posts you’re alluding to. Granted I let a troll bait me into getting frustrated (that’s on me). Mistermodal I believe the user name was. After that happened, I was seeing a lot of these same criticisms about ML on other communities. I paid more attention to how the people there conduct themselves, which coincides with your point. I’m still fairly new to the fediverse/lemmy entirely so I don’t quite know the lay of the land if they aren’t obvious in the name of the instance. I haven’t bothered going back because .world and other communities I frequent seem a little more normal, less unhinged, and less hypocritical.
i stop interacting with thier instance the moment they called certain shows/movies(the ones that ascribes thier authotarianism too) as shit lib or woke, yea thats conservative speak , instant block.
I can see that thread in the mod log (which is public here on Lemmy). Your comment they removed was
Indeed, you were responding to a condescending comment in a manner that’s also snarky, but as a long-time moderator of big communities, I don’t think that warranted a ban, or at least an action that affected only you but not the instigator. However, it’s worth noting that their rule 2, which was among the cited rules, is incredibly permissive (and widely abused, as seen on MoG), basically allowing to ban for anything at a mod’s discretion and making the rest of the rules redundant.
I hope you stay on the Fediverse one way or another. Its power is that even if you clash with any of the staff or even the Lemmy maintainers themselves, there are always other instances or even PieFed to replace Lemmy itself.
Yep. I own the mis-step in how I acted. It was juvenile of me and I let my temper get the better of me when I should have went about my business. This was when I also discovered the modlog. I came over from Reddit, which doesn’t have that feature at least from what I noticed when there. Now I just take a trip over to the modlog and search the user to see what their deal is and block them if need be. It takes me out of the initial reaction I get from bait like that.