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.

  • Rose@lemmy.zipOPEnglish
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    21 days ago

    I can see that thread in the mod log (which is public here on Lemmy). Your comment they removed was

    Aw the mewling wittle baby is in love. I actually don’t use signal, but nice try. I do know a fair deal about the obscene income inequality and disparity in non-profits though.

    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.