Countries like Russia block them quite successfully. The commercial ones generally have their lists of servers publicly available, allowing to just copy and paste.

I know you’re quoting from the Hexbear thread again, which comes off as trolling, but I’ll reply anyway for the sake of others. From what I know, Dessalines lives in the West and there’s no threat to their life. Meanwhile the rest of Lemmy and PieFed includes people from all over the world.

There’s been an uptick of downvotes and new users leaving critical comments since the Hexbear thread linking this one. Though Hexbear is defederated from .world, I’m pretty sure that if you examine the downvotes, you’re going to find barely active alt accounts of users from Hexbear. There’s one who literally quoted a point from that thread.

Edit: Also of note is that after they made that thread, they revisited the Ukraine thread from 10 months ago and removed my comments individually to make them harder to access. They know no reasonable person reading them is going to come to their conclusion that I’m a “fascist sympathizer” for essentially siding with Ukraine. Thankfully, they have no control over the Web Archive version also found at the OP link.

One post about authoritarian communists isn’t a lot. The states those people praise only curb efforts to stay private. A common feature of totalitarianism is that it wants to control even people’s private lives. Funnily, as I note in a different comment citing a blog linked by davel and others, the US, as authoritarian and fascist as it’s getting, has funded great open source tools and protocols like Wireguard and Tor. Meanwhile the likes of Russia block them altogether, while the likes of China and Iran crack down even more.

Because praise for China is to improve privacy? Is that a religious thing?

Funnily, it’s the same blog as the one from davel about Ukraine being run by the CIA. It’s around the same points as Dessalines’s article: the OTF, Radio Free Asia, and the CIA.

Edit: I love the “examples of tools supported by OTF”. The list includes Lantern, Psiphon (both used to fight censorship in authoritarian countries), WireGuard, Mailvelope, Tor, Tails, F-Droid, and K-9 Mail. Beware of those products supported by the US government!

Edit 2: And as one would expect, the program in question was among the DOGE cuts last year. Authoritarians think alike?

I believe that’s from .zip rather than Voyager. When I joined, there were no blocks, but one or more of the triad were later added as a soft block via default user settings, as opposed to defederation.

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.

Let’s stick to the real world, not weird analogies. By default, Lemmy users are presented with an All feed, which includes communities from all instances (except those defederated). When you see one called “games” (at hexbear, whatever that means) and then maybe see its trans flag banner, what’s the reasonable expectation? Discussions about games with people who seem to recognize the value of minority groups and viewpoints, right? And then it turns out those people hijack discussions about gaming to praise or defend totalitarian states who oppress minorities; then they ban, insult and harass you if you disagree. Likewise, what does the notion of China preferring autonomy have to do with Signal in the context of privacy? No reasonable person comes to a privacy community expecting to see praise for China.

You’re in there!

I think the behavior surrounding my games@hexbear ban is also indicative not just of their politics but also of their behavior in general. Its moderator reacting to my report of Holodomor denial by publicly saying the comment has been reported by me is highly unethical. Then following my post about the situation (linked in the OP), one of their users reposted that to Hexbear and there were people tagging me as they threw insults at me, which amounts to harassment, considering I’ve never left a comment in that thread. There were admins in the thread as well, but they only piled on despite their rules prohibiting harassment and insults.

Edit: Here’s a link to some specific examples.

Edit 2: They’re now brigading this thread and tagging me again from here.

Getting closer and closer to that! The reason I made this post to begin with is to do a PSA, because it took me months of being subscribed to games on Hexbear to notice it’s not a leftist community as it presents itself, but authoritarian communist. So I can’t be certain all of their users are in the know, but is it worth keeping the instances unblocked if the bad outweighs the possibility of good?

What’s wrong with ties to crypto? It’s less centralized than bank cards and allows to make transactions without being tracked if you use coins like Monero.

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Still a win for everyone on Android, as Google would have to keep the platform open until 2032.

Epic used Gemini to power its Darth Vader, so it might be related to AI indeed. To add to that, Epic has introduced an AI chat for Unreal Engine developers, acquired the AI asset tagging tool Loci, and enabled AI for its support system to handle requests before a human operator steps in. I also believe they use AI as a screening tool for its new text chat feature (and maybe its new forums), but I have no proof for this part.

He was on the list, but I couldn’t find him in any of the photos or videos from the event. The CEOs of Nvidia and OpenAI were indeed present and shaking hands though.

Commenting on the very article from the OP, he called the content disgusting.