Mbin is a thing

Stop using Lemmy > accepting russian propaganda.

It’s not a difficult choice to make, mate

Active Operators will block know counter propaganda operatives since they know it is a futile exercise.

ye sure. maybe edit the title to make it a megathread? or have the title be something about examples of extremism from the lemmy developers?

Yes, “Mao was good actually” is terrifying to me. It’s such a fresh, novel, and revolutionary concept that I feel my mind unraveling every time I see a brave ml warrior post it. Same with “war is bad so Ukraine is bad for defending against invasion.” The sheer intellect required to achieve such a unique understanding of these concepts is truly intimidating.

Ignoring the misinformation, support for genocides and authoritarian regimes, no one is afraid of their ‘opinions’.

It’s just that most .ml users are absolute cancer to discuss with

No one is afraid of their opinions. Everyone who has been on the fedi for a while has heard them, over, and over, and over. The mods, and the portion of the users who are grouped in with them, are campists who will defend anything places like China do, even if it is the exact same shit as the western imperialists. They also tend to spout a lot of apologia for harsh, punitive, legal systems, and police states, as long as it calls itself socialist. Hell, don’t even need to do that anymore, just have to be like “hey NATO imperialism bad!” and they will come to defend the honor of a country that is actively annexing, and colonizing, other states, because imperialism is acceptable when it isn’t the west. It is just them defending themselves, and/or liberating oppressed people, just like the US claims every time it bombs somewhere into the dirt. I have witnessed multiple instances of .ml users automatically dismissing any data from any source “western”, while claiming you aren’t capable of having a good faith argument, if you dismiss information from the CCP, in kind.

I find that the large body of .ml users are not like this, but their mods, and a significant portion of the users, namely the most commonly seen names, are very much this way. There is no argument to be had, there is no fruitful discussion here. They are in their camp, and they can’t seem to truly understand people can hate both camps, and actually not want what either offers. So why interact at this point?

Haha ok. I would never be happy sitting behind some blockade on the fediverse, unable to even see what others are saying.

There’s a difference between a veteran Lemming making a conscious choice to “see the other side for themselves” and a tentative-ex-Redditor checking the vibes of a new unknown place.

Its funny that you are so afraid of their opinions that you have to lock yourself in the basement. But you do you. :)

Lol, no. I’ve read their opinions, debated them multiple times even, and have come to the conclusion that their “opinions” are as toxic and/or dangerous misinformation as far-right “opinions”. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism whether it’s right or left shaded.

If anything, I’m afraid of the potential damage it’s doing to the Lemmy-verse.

Every person that comes here, is another person Reddit has lost and another notch against corporate social media. And that’s a beautiful thing worth protecting IMO

What I wish is that you didn’t need to depend on your instance to block other instances so much, but that it was easier to block comments and posts coming from those instances at a personal level.

You can block any instance in your account settings, same as communities or users.

Really funny you had to make another account just to troll because .ml is blocked by so many

Oh and all of their alts too!

Do you look down upon journalists? What cm is doing isn’t much different than journalism. They’re collecting evidence, bringing attention to and exposing wrongdoing to the public, just on a smaller platform.

Lol ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ we all have our hobbies bro, don’t hobby-shame

What app so you use to browse lemmy and how do I block .ml?

they are more or less the same side of coins as conservatives, they even whine and post the same way.

don’t be offtopic

I occasionally see people sying this but where does it come from? Afaik Ukraine has as much of a white supremacist problem as Russia, but it is not mainstream or the majority

well put. and every Marxist-Leninist I’ve met irl has been cool, these pricks are either misrepresenting the entire movement or doing it in the worst, most alienating, factually challenged kind of way.

if the opinion is annoying and doesnt provide constructive conversations, opinions almost one-sided anyways and holds bias, i always block them if they become annoying.