I’ve seen several references to some sort of rift between the users of these instances today. What’s happening?

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    World users are just mad that the lemmy devs use ML which means they can’t verifiably call them uneducated morons, and ML users are mad that the World users are just smart enough to know the difference between socialism and communism that they won’t just auto buy into it lol.

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    ML is run by heavily-indoctrinated communists. They’re the type that straight up worship communist leaders.

    lemmy.world is kind of run by pussies. They blocked the piracy sublemmy for no real reason other than that.

    It doesn’t surprise me they are butting heads. Hopefully the instances that allow interaction with both instances triumph over those that try to restrict access.

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      ML is run by heavily-indoctrinated communists. They’re the type that straight up worship communist leaders.

      It’s run by Russia bots who are pumping our Kremlin talking points whilst deleting anyone who is critical.

      I got deleted for pointing out Putin runs a mafia state.

      Shit even the Russian communist don’t like Putin.

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      They’re the type that straight up worship communist leaders.

      I wouldn’t phrase it at that. They’re fans of Russia, China, Iran, and pretty much any other country that’s antagonistic to the US. This regardless of whether said state is communist, especially Russia, which has become fascist under Putin’s rule.

      In short, the .ml owners are tankies

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        If you disagree that .ml are communist and insist that they’re “tankies” instead, it seems to imply that not all communists are “tankies.” However, every single communist I’m aware of is called a tankie. What does a communist who isn’t a tankie look like? Are there examples of such a thing?

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          Are you seriously conflating communism with authoritarianism?

          It’s like you guys went through the red scare and instead of figuring it was a stupid insane witch hunt without any real foundation, decided that the republican definition of “communism = evil” was actually true, but you wanted in anyway. It’s ridiculous.

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            It’s such an irony to me that people who call us “tankies” and say that we are somehow caricatures of communists, always make such caricatures out of themselves. Like, instead of engaging with any of FunkyStuff’s very reasonable, calmly stated questions, you go off about how we (“tankies”) just decided to be evil, and calling us ridiculous while behaving in such a ridiculous, blatantly and needlessly antagonistic way yourself. It’s over the top.

            Paraphrasing:
            FunkyStuff: asks a calm, concise series of questions that are meant to help clarify the issue.
            lunnrais: “See?! Look how frothing these evil, ridiculous lunatic tankies are!!”

            And this after correctly recognizing that the red scare was a terrible witch hunt? But it was people like us, people who believe what we believe, that were the “witches” of that particular persecution. We are simply what most communists in the world look like, we believe what most communists in the world believe, people who have very clear and consistent views. But instead of honestly trying to engage or actually understand why “tankies” believe the things they do, you just smear us with lies and pretend that the position of Marxist-Leninist communists is just some bananas, made-up-on-the-fly, contrarian position, rather than one with deep foundations that have been developed over decades of intense thought and practice including by people fighting in the trenches for their own and others liberation. To you, were the Black Panthers “tankies”? Do you know about their mutual support of and with North Korea, or did they just decide to be “evil” to pwn the libs? Was Che Guevara a “tankie”? Is Michael Parenti? Were they all just ridiculous contrarians who liked the picture that reactionaries (“republicans”) painted of them?

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          5 hours ago

          Are you saying communism necessarily implies authoritarianism? What about anarchists?

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    Visit ML before any major Western election and browse by Local (its default) and you will easily see: ML calls for the literal and actual fall of all Western civilization including the deaths of most to nearly all peoples therein.

    Whereas LW does not want that, go figure. 🤷‍♀️

    Something something bOtH sIdEs SaMe.

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      Still coming up to speed on the terminology here, but labels aside, I would hope we can all agree on the fact that society should work for the people first. A society that works for corporations and the rich first (I’d argue that most developed nations show advanced stages of this, regardless of capitalist alignment) will decay internally, like a cancer. I think we’ve seen the global decline of society working for their members since the mid 1900’s.

      This has resulted in a broad rightward swing in the US, and to a slightly lesser degree abroad. People feel like they’ve been taken advantage of. And they have been, but mostly by the very rich, and it’s getting exponentially worse by the day.

      Argue nuance if you feel so inclined. But my point is: the more that we’re divided by these labels is to our detriment. And when I say “we”, I mean “not the ownership class.”

      Do you work? Do you draft a paycheck anywhere on earth? Then you’re getting fucked, because those who don’t draft a paycheck to live basically don’t pay anything to partake in society. We pay for them. We truly live in a welfare state, but it’s not the poor that are the recipients but the rich.

      Tankie or not. Western or Eastern. We’re all manipulated into serving the will of the powerful, and constantly at odds with one another when our plight is similar. We all don’t want to get fucked. But the more we’re divided, the easier it is to conquer us.

      Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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        You are talking theory.

        Now, in practice invite the MAGA over to your side, and see what happens.

        Good luck!

        Translation: consent needs to matter. Tankies do not care about your consent. They want to advance the cycle through the destruction phase to get to the other side that is all magical rainbows and fairy dust - just exactly like Russia, China, and North Korea are so well-known for, obviously.

        And they will not let anything get in the way of achieving their goals. Not even facts.

        Please do not allow yourself to become used like a tool by the oligarchy. Like both the (leftist) tankies and the (rightist) MAGAs have. They share in common a love for authoritarianism - and guess who gets to be at the top there? Hint: it ain’t us!

        Tankies want me and everyone that I have ever known or even met to literally die.

        Something something bOtH sIdEs SaMe.

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      .ml users are also just immature weirdos. most of my harassing comments calling me insults come from .ml users.

      they don’t discuss and they don’t read. they just shout and quote russian/chinese state propaganda about how people living in those countries are so wealthy and liberated and so much better than americans or europeans. and if you do cite sources, they tell you that those are american propaganda and all lies and ONLY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS TELLING THE TRUTH.

      oh, and the .ml opening talk about the power of violence and their violent fantasies of killing everyone who has a modicum of economic security and all claim to be the poorest of the poor, which I highly doubt.

      I was a communist when I was 15, but even back then I was into the utopia part, not the mass murder fantasy part.

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        Actual communists here are on Threadiverse seem quite emotionally capable and are among the more pleasant to chat with. Examples there include slrpnk.net. I used to also say db0 though there always seems pushback nowadays whenever I include it, but I can’t get anyone to give me a solid answer as to why besides unsubstantiated accusations that even on their face looks like pure BS to me. So I guess I’ll keep saying it, just noting that it is a controversial point.:-)

        Hexbears on the other hand are trolls, pure and simple, with zero regard for anything other than “the dunk” process of pwning someone - or rather, appearing to, from their own extremely childish POV.

        Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml then are the leftist MAGAs, believing in alternative facts rather than living in reality. e.g. most claim that they would move to the likes of North Korea in a heartbeat, except, you know… I guess they took an arrow to the knee or some such. 🤪

        I am so glad that I can block people from an entire instance. If I could, I would make an exception to the devs Nutomic and Dessalines out of respect for having offered the Lemmy sourcecode as FOSS, but other than that, I have not missed a single interaction with anyone on Lemmy.ml since I have done so, every time I’ve checked to see what I might be missing. They are the most batshit insane comments across the entirety of the Threadiverse, after Hexbear obviously.

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          “the only communists who are actual communists are the ones who cater to my sensibilities as a liberal”

          The only person spewing alternative facts is you, you can’t seem to regurgitate a post without making up bullshit.

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      ML calls for the literal and actual fall of all Western civilization

      for the record when people say ‘Death to America’ it’s wishing an end to the American government and its settler-colonial state apparatus.

      Concern about the ‘fall of Western civilization’ is more often than not a dog whistle signalling reactionary politics.

      also this isn’t limited to election seasons, death to america

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        Death to America

        I dunno man, all other things aside (I have no opinion on specific Lemmy instances at all), when you’re quoting Osama Bin Laden as part of your own beliefs or opinion, that’s probably not cool beans, you know?

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          Osama Bin Laden and I happen to have the same position that the end of the USA as a political entity would be a positive thing. I probably also agree with him that breathing and having meals is necessary for survival.

          Are either of those propositions made less true by virtue of Osama also believing them?

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          Death to America is a saying that goes back much further than Bin Laden, and there have been many good reasons for many people to say it. I’m sure many of the people indigenous to the land (that wasn’t “America” to them) had a probably rather similar phrase and said it probably rather often as that entity commenced with their genocide. And since that time, it’s not as if there hasn’t been a lack of good reasons to call for the destruction of the settler-colonial project responsible for the worst imperialist cruelties since the British Empire (the immediate ancestor). But you might consider questioning why you seem to only associate the phrase with that one particular person.

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          I use she/her in case it doesn’t show up in your app.

          This isn’t quoting osama bin laden, it’s an Iranian slogan/expression.

          America as a settler-colonial state is a world-historic evil, death to America

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      Visit .world before any major Western election and browse by Local (its default) and you will easily see: .world will sell out as many Palestinians as it takes to buy political time in hopes of a blue wave that is definitely going fix everything and bring America™ back to its wholesome big chungus status.

      Whereas ML does not want to carry out genocide to buy time for pointless political waffling, go figure.

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    I just want to add to the discussion that I think it’s perfectly healthy if two instances don’t like each other and/or have different outlooks - it’s the beauty of the fediverse and having decentralisation that they don’t have to agree on everything.

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    only thing I know is the cm002 wierdo guy. did not know it extended beyond him who I dunno could be a wierd cabal for all I know.

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    ML is run by people who are not only communist, but also communists can do no wrong, capitalists can do no right. Just being communist most of us could live with, but the second is a problem. When someone cannot agree things like genocides that various communist governments are a bad it is really hard to have productive conversations.

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      yes. the openly call for murder, theft, and various form of violence against their ‘enemies’.

      and if you suggest maybe that’s not such a great idea, they basically tell you that you should die too.

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        But on the other hand, perhaps I should smile more, even as I am being murdered? (Dials gaslighting up to 11) Yes, it is surely I who am in the wrong here, rather than them.

        (/s in case it is not abundantly clear)

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    The stereotype is that Lemmy.ml wants to play with Stalin’s balls. Lemmy.world wants to play with, I don’t know, Obama’s balls? With Bernie, Bill Clinton, and Reagan watching from the corner?

    Something like that, anyway.

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      World is after ML for being Stalinists and ML is after World for not being Stalinists hah

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          No, Leninism is different. Marxism-Leninism specifically was a creation of Stalin.

          Marxism–Leninism was developed from Bolshevism by Joseph Stalin in the 1920s based on his understanding and synthesis of classical Marxism and Leninism.

          When talking about Stalinism people often means not just that ideology but also the brutal way it was implemented and how the country was ruled

          Stalinism is the means of governing and Marxist–Leninist policies implemented in the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1927 to 1953 by Joseph Stalin. It included the creation of a one-party totalitarian police state, rapid industrialization, the theory of socialism in one country (until 1939), forced collectivization of agriculture, intensification of class conflict, a cult of personality,[1][2] and subordination of the interests of foreign communist parties to those of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, deemed by Stalinism to be the leading vanguard party of communist revolution at the time.

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      It’s not even that. The specific brand of “communist” the ML admins stan is really just redfash, so all other leftists despise them, even as they insist their 100 year old dogma is the only correct philosophy.

      It’s also not just that. Dessalines and Nutomic are just basic fucking assholes. Petty and power hungry, and occasionally transphobic, they spend more time banning users and making drama for stupid shit, than they spend writing code, and then have the audacity to guilt people for money.

      Dessalines in particular is so fucking cringe, he literally will not post outside of his shitty little fiefdom, because he cannot handle any internet where he doesn’t have his little “I win” ban button.

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      ML users aren’t really communists though - they are leftist MAGAs who believe in alternative facts, only paying lip service to communist principles but not in a genuine manner. i.e. tankies.

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      It’s the authoritarian part LW disagrees with. I think the .world admins would have long defederated ML, but since the lemmy coders are situated on .ML, thats not such an attractive option. Desalines and Nutomic are hardcore tankies and bigots, which crush any dissenting voice on .ml. Even worse, if you want to support lemmy development, the finances of .ml and development budget are intertwined, so every donation for lemmy also supports tankies. It’s the reason i switched to piefed,

      If you want examples of how those two run their digital kingdom, take a look at [email protected] - most posts are about .ml.

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        The “tankies” have the same platform as pretty much every real life communist organisation, lemmy.worlders have the same platform as your generic European social democratic party.

        I’d have more respect for people just admitting that they’re anti-communist rather than trying to redefine and obfuscate the meaning of the word.

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          No they don’t, apart from edgy internet leftists who haven’t studied any political theory outside of their sheltered internet canon. The modern internationale, Jacobin, etc, actively avoid the idiotic campism and autocratic baggage the tankies cling to as they relitigate the cold war. There has been a century of revisionist leftist theory since Lenin’s “theory” about how everything Lenin does is great even if it is transparently hypocritical. Most of the leftist world has moved on, but tankies still live on that mountain.

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            This absolutely reeks of western exceptionalism. The “leftist world” is far more than what social democrats in Europe and North America think. Communists in the global south aren’t going to be lectured by people from wealthy imperial core countries on what the correct kind of leftism is.

            There is still a very deep colonialist mindset here, and one that won’t be found amongst actual communist orgs that are politically active.

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              The absolute gorgeous irony of MLs saying they don’t want to be lectured about politics.

              But hey, I’m not your psychiatrist, so if you want to maintain this delusion that ML orthodoxy represents some singular, uncorrupted ideal which actually holds any relevant influence anywhere in the world, then by no means will I interfere with your monumental significance.

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          I’m not anti-communist. I’m anti-authoritarian.

          Being a communist does not imply supporting Russia, because Russia is not communist in any way, it’s a dictatorship.

          Being a communist also does not mean being pro China, because even if China implements parts of communism, communism does not imply eradicating the identity of minorities and censoring whatever the party does not like - i think communism, free speech and a multicultural society do not exclude each other.

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            I’m not anti-communist. I’m anti-authoritarian.

            Part of being a communist is recognizing what it means to even be “authoritarian.” It means (among many other things) that you have examined that word and it’s various meanings and how it holds up to what’s really happening in the material world, and how it relates to the way societies actually work. Not just some nebulous “vibes” regarding what kind of images float around in our heads when the word is spoken. In other words, materialism vs idealism.

            Being a communist does not imply supporting Russia, because Russia is not communist in any way, it’s a dictatorship.

            I doubt you could find a single communist who believes that modern Russia is communist because it isn’t. We all can agree that it is not. Likewise I think every communist you could find would say that modern Russia is at best a disgusting capitalist disgrace to its Soviet history. But to call it a “dictatorship” especially without also recognizing other capitalist nations similarly as “dictatorships” is just a failure of understanding of what that word means, but I won’t say more on it because ordnance_qf already did. So let’s move on to “support” of Russia. As a communist (Marxist Leninist, aka “tankie”) I do NOT support Russia in its capitalist endeavors. Again, I doubt you can find a communist who does. But I can still look at Russia’s position on the world stage at this time and see that because of its material interests (and not because it’s “the good guy” - it isn’t, and not because it’s current government has noble intentions - they don’t), it is supporting the global south in the latter’s struggle against imperialism. And it is US imperialism that is the boot on the neck of the peoples of the Global South. For liberatory revolutions to be able to survive before being strangled in their nascency, the pressure of that boot must be reduced or better yet removed. What I support is Russia’s undeniable help in facilitating that. Which is what we as communists mean by “critical support.” We highly criticize Russia, but we support it in it’s primary fight against the US, NATO, and Western Imperialism (which are all aspects of essentially the same thing) for the sake of revolutionary movements that would thrive were it not for western suppression.

            Being a communist also does not mean being pro China, because even if China implements parts of communism, communism does not imply eradicating the identity of minorities and censoring whatever the party does not like - i think communism, free speech and a multicultural society do not exclude each other.

            I would agree with you that support of China is not a prerequisite of being a communist and there are many communists who do not (including many communists who the anticommunists on this instance would still call “tankies”). China doesn’t “implement parts of communism” but China is a Socialist project (where the word “socialism” refers to the transitional stage away from capitalism and towards communism, since unfortunately communism cannot spring fully formed into place). You can be highly critical of China’s socialism as many are, but at the very least capital does not enjoy a dictatorship in China as it does in so-called “liberal democracies.” However, when you go on to say things like China is eradicating the identity of minorities or the implication that it is not a profoundly multicultural society, that is where I just have to firmly disagree and call “BS.” Of course communism and a multicultural society do not exclude each other - they can’t exclude each other, by definition. China is very far away from perfect, but to say it is against multiculturalism or worse that it is “eradicating the identity of minorities” is simply the repetition of lies that you were told, lies originating from a state that considers China its arch nemesis and despises it. It’s propaganda. This can be confirmed even by going there. So by all means, criticize China, call it out for its actual faults, but find out first what they really are and do not perpetuate demonization, literal sinophobic falsehoods.

            I went into a lot of detail in this response because I think that you and I (and therefore many “tankies”) are not actually on very dissimilar tracks, and likewise I suspect with a lot of other people reading this thread. But there is just so much bad faith I see in threads like this, it makes it all but impossible to see the similar tracks. And I think that is often by design. Like another comment I responded to (and tons more I didn’t) that just want to smear and demonize without even a hint of a desire to understand, but your comment clearly wasn’t like that, and you expressed honest, valid (though towards the end, I would say gravely misled) concerns. I’d bet there are a lot of people who listen to the “tankies are evil red fash” noise and just assume that must be the case without any actual engagement and never actually take the chance to understand the actual position. Those of us who genuinely want sincere, unselfish human flourishing, should be able to find that common ground to actually suss out our positions and learn. But the smarmy and smug anti-tankie crowd do not want to learn and they do not want others to learn. Fortunately many still will, despite them.

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            Communism is authoritarian, dictatorship of the proletariat. That’s a core part of Marxist theory. How on earth can you ever expect to get political power if you’re not willing to suppress the forces of capital that will try to resist any attempt to build socialism?

            There’s also the concept of critical support where you can support something in principle but not support every facet of it, i.e. China. It’s not always black and white.

            I’m sure you mean well but your idea of communism does not make any sense to me. What does anti-authoritarian communism look like to you, and can you point to a real life communist org that is anti-China, anti-Russia, and anti-authoritarian?

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      I get more of an impression that people in general do not understand what they believe. There’s a lot of that in the post information era we live; its also an easy excuse to look down my nose at people of course lol.

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        I think this is pretty insightful. There also is no definitely right answer. Some people may view China as communistic and others may view them as a dictatorship.

        Considering they made more billionaires than the US this last year I think the communism thing is a bit of a stretch. At this point they are looking pretty fascist to me. Obviously ML isn’t going to agree to that

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          But what they will do is ban you for saying that (if you said it in one of their communities)! 😉

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    Long-standing political differences and an extremely censorious moderation philosophy on Lemmy.ml means there is always tension. I’m not aware of any specific thing that has happened recently though.

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      17 hours ago

      there was a big post yesterday about ‘rent is theft’ that had 100s of comments, that was mostly .world vs .ml users.

      the .ml users basically harassed and threatened the .world users who were talking about reasonable reforms on housing prices and the causes for housing price inflation. .ml users think if you talk about facts and reality you are part of the problem and that reality should be re-made such that private property no longer exists and every single person should leave in the same concrete housing blocks like they had in the USSR, or they should be shot.

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        I mean, if they all want to move to Russia or North Korea or China, go right ahead, I am not stopping anyone from chasing their bliss. Perhaps I should note that they will end up as fodder for a warlord’s lust for conquest, but at the end of the day that is not my call to make as to what to do with your lives.

        But damnit I would like to have some tint amount of control about what to do with my own! Including the ability to block them, if I happen to want that. I almost left Lemmy over precisely this issue, preferring instead to simply read books offline than to have to wade through endless immature eternity of September crap. Fortunately, that’s exactly when PieFed started coming up, offering an alternative besides Mbin, and which now offers a heck of a lot more features than either of them.

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          “you don’t like it, leave”

          you sound like pretty much every conservative I’ve interacted with.

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            Naa we’re just tired of you tankies spewing authoritarian propaganda… you’re just maga’s that wear hammer and sickle patches.

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              I’m an anarchist, these days ‘tankie’ is just an epithet used by campist liberals towards ‘disloyal’ communists and anarchists at home.

              There’s a twisted irony that the so-called’tankies’ are the ones most opposed to america sending in the tanks

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                No…no it’s not. You tankies are called that because you eat propaganda from authoritarian regimes in the name of communism. You’re just maga with a hammer and sickle logo

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    I block ml users on sight so I didn’t even notice

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      I dunno man. I just signed up as reddit imploded. I wasn’t thinking political ideology. I just needed a refuge. I’m happy, and grateful for my adopted home.

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        Tbh I blocked all ml posts from my all feed and started blocking ml users on sight for my own mental health

        I get in almost zero arguments online now and actually enjoy using this platform

        Sorry about the block. It’s not you, it’s your instance.

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    I signed up for the developer’s instance because fuck reddit, and I do dev work.

    Server choice had nothing to do with any political shit. I barely knew what federation was at the time. Lemmy immediately proved there are as many bandwagoning idiots as reddit here.

    I have nothing to say about world though, I don’t use the platform that much.

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      I originally did this and ended up having to remake my account on .world. I just couldn’t stand the negativity and constant fighting on .ml. I was able to find a non-ml alternative to every community I was subscribed to. YMMV but it was completely worth it for me

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        I’m not hopping instances, I will just leave. Social media is worth very little to me. Abandoning it would mean nothing to me.

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        The fediverse isn’t going to be one all-encompassing thing like reddit. As time goes on, there will be different “sections” of the fediverse to accommodate people with different interests.

        Lemmy.world, being run by pussies, thinks that because they’re the largest instance right now that they get to dictate the direction the fediverse goes in. As more people wake up to their censorship, more instances will sprout up to resist it.

        It’s great that nobody is beholden to the decisions of either instance’s admins. That’s the beauty of the fediverse.

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      .ml users engage in a lot of violent fantasizing of mass murder and state sponsored violence until that everyone believes what they believe. basically everyone who isn’t a communist or anarchist, should die. and once everyone who isn’t a communist/anarchist is dead, the world will be a perfect utopia with no suffering. that’s their view.

      .world users aren’t screaming about murdering people.

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      This post is a good example of said slander/infighting, as MLs are inherently not dogmatic, and having consistent values is painted as being homogenous.

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            Big push to move off of American sites in response to Trump. So lots of Europeans and what not are joining here.

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              Not kidding, they’re everywhere. Those posts taunting Americans for not resisting? Russians. Those posts encouraging violence? Russians. Those posts urging you to give up, it’s already over? Russians. Those posts saying America will never do anything to punish MAGA? Russians.

              We saw it all over Reddit, before the 2024 election. I got real good at spotting them ( new account, nothing but negative posts, no care about downvoted, illogical arguments, just to argue and waste time, etc) and used to call them out by addressing their supervisors, knowing they were monitoring responses, saying I already pegged this new account as an obvious Russian Propaganda Farmer, and he’s doing such a terrible job that he should be sent to the beet canning factory instead. It was often that person’s last post, under that handle, at least.

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        It’s literally called Lemmy.MarxistLeninist get your head out of Stalin’s arsehole.

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          Omg you guys believe that?? The .ml is from Mali 😂 it’s because Mali domains were free for the longest time.