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Instances tend to be flavored towards certain groups of people. There are a particular group of 3 instances, one being Lemmy.ml the others known as hexbear and lemmygrad that cater to people who essentially think that all western society is corrupt and that NK, China, Russia, etc are the saviors of the world.
lemmy.ml happens to be the flagship instance of the software creators which causes a lot of friction in terms of if they should be cut off or not.
The only reason I’m on .ml is because one of the communities I wanted to subscribe to was blocked on .world
You can likely pick almost any other instance if that's piracy
Hold on here...did I accidentally join a gang?
.ml was my first instance. That account is 1 month older than this one. I found slrpnk by accident and it fit my community better so I switched. I learned about the drama after lol.
Which community?
I believe it was !piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com.
Out of curiosity, why not make an account on one of the anarchist flotilla instances?
.ml was another instance I was already aware of at the time, back then I didn’t know people formed opinions based on which instance you’re with either
It’s more about recognizing what kind of biases the user will likely be approaching a given topic with. .ml users obviously tend to skew towards viewing world events through a very specific lens, which then goes on to color how they interact with the rest of the fediverse.
The funny part is that when you’re a .ml user on .ml, it looks like smooth sailing and calm waters. Discussion is civil and friendly, and dissent all lands within a very specific Overton window. But once you start digging deeper, you realize it’s because the entire instance is extremely heavily moderated. It looks like everyone agrees because dissent outside of that tiny bandwidth quickly gets silenced. So as long as .ml users stay on their instance, things tend to be pretty chill.
This ironically leads to friction when those .ml users end up on external instances, because the .ml admins can’t moderate those as heavily. Plus those external users have likely seen and/or experienced the heavy-handed moderation firsthand. So they immediately assume .ml users are complicit and intentionally staying in their bubble, instead of simply being unaware.
I'd say that these days that group contains four instances and dbzer0 is a member.
Nah, that's the anarchy/punk/pirate server.
Every server has some tankies or tankie leaning infiltraitors.
The admin are the problem there though.
who? unruffled was literally the reason Hexbear proposed defederation from dbzer0 if that’s what you mean
I meant all of them but if that's the one that came to your mind first that's telling.
he’s the one that comes to my mind first because i hate him
I have never yet found a db0 (the admin) opinion I disagree with.
Care to explain further? I have only had good interactions, but to be fair I don't know that much about any drama here so 🤷🏼♀️
Probably related to their admin's (Rimu's) false claims about dbzer0's admins using LLM for moderation. Though it's been months since that was a topic and got debunked. Rimu is pretty infamous on yepowertrippinbastards (which is banned on piefed.social) for his mudslinging and silencing of criticism.
Fun story I got banned on yptb for pointing out the one of their mods/admins were being ableist.
Of course they waited a week after the conversation to do that so I guess it really got under their skin.
For .ml specifically see below, as far as dbzer0 goes, some of the admins have allegedly taken a "friendlier" stance to the Tankies. I don't personally believe they're going full tankie like some on the Threadiverse believe, but sometimes they make questionable decisions in pursuit of that friendliness. For example allowing hardcore tankie users to be mod in comms that were literally formed to be free of tankie influence/ideology/propaganda like !leftymemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com where the top mod is a known Tankie and openly admitted to being one just recently
Admins of .ml promote and enforce authoritarianism here's a megathread on them
You'll get banned for showing support for Ukraine or going against Russian narratives or if you remind them of Putlers promise to not invade or just shit talking Putler in general
Or calling out propaganda sites - https://lemmy.world/post/32776038 | https://lemmy.world/post/33416433 | https://lemmy.world/post/34051329 | https://lemmy.world/post/35919522
Or so much more, I actually haven't updated the megathread in a few months, but there's more recent stuff on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
That mod was the one that created that community though
Oh, yeah I'm banned in "leftymemes" and the modo is sure a piece of work. Didn't think much of it because the sub is so low quality/basically dead. It was my fault a bit, I was sick and misstook it for an .ml sub lol. But this explains some things for sure.
Besides that you can look around and decide for yourself.
dbzer0 is anarchists, not communists.
they suffer from the same delusional idealism though, and belief that anyone who doesn't think like them should be murdered.
Well, not anarchists, but dbzer0 chudlettes, sure.