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my brother in christ, I was banned from all lemmy.ml communities (fairphone, signal, selfhosted etc etc) because I dared talk about the uyghur genocide.
Lemmy is even worse.
Lemmy.ml is one instance.
Join smaller instances so no one instance can dominate on many topics.
We should avoid creating monopolies.
Lemmy.ml has the monopoly on certain topics. Such as signal. The biggest alternatove is on kbin with 130 members (opposed to 1.4k on ml)
Signal is a non-political topic, just make another account to post there.
That's a right of passage on fedi, kinda like getting banned on new and politics subs on .world for discussions on dead parasite or israli Jews committing genocide in gaza
It's not just lemmy.ml... That's the problem with any instance - that an idiot like me can just host one and be "the king". Then a community grows, but the king still sits on the throne - whether he is qualified or not. Reddit had years to get rid of most of those issues with established modteams. Communities that had bad moderation faded away. Communities that "made it" had okayish mods since there were thousands of people to pressure a team acting like a-holes. Lemmy has barely any users compared to that, so a bad admin / moderator is more visible. Also, lemmy is heavily skewed towards echochambers, even more than reddit was.
Splitting communities just creates more issues - with having to crosspost to 2 or 3 groups of people who might not interact with one another. It's honestly no wonder that there exists a "mega instance" in lemmy.world
!lotrmemes@lemmy.dbzer0.com is taking over !lotrmemes@midwest.social
It mostly took a post on !newcommunities@lemmy.world and a ping to the regular posters
Provided everyone sees it and moves there and not just stops seeing the content altogether and forgets about it. Remember, social media is like 95% lurkers. Also this assumes you are moving instances instead of there being two already that have different people watching them / moderating them.
You missed the beauty though in what happened though. Lemmy isn't worse, one instance was. So here you are still.
Except I'm back to spending most of my time on Reddit again because the communities I most care about just so happen to be home on lemmy.ml
Only on mobile I still use lemmy because of the API disaster
There's a movement to move most lemmy.ml-specific communities off of that instance and onto other instances, I'd recommend looking around for alternative communities to the ones you used before. A lot of people are tired of ml's shitty moderation policies and overcentralization.
!de_ml@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Yeah, but it just isn't there yet. Look at !signal@lemmy.ml
Iz's a de-facto monopoly and there's nothing we can do.
Not with that attitude. The more people move, the more likely people will use the newer community and it's seen plenty of success.
!de_ml@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Edit : it seems like we had the same conversation a week ago: https://lemmy.world/comment/14009221
I'm glad you're speaking out against Uyghur genocide, but having an israel flag in your username is kinda sus considering what's happening in Gaza.
Yeah, I scrolled the comments and kinda surpised almost no-one mentions it. Getting mixed vibes..
Understandable. Adding it was kind of a knee-jerk reaction after seeing someone unironically refer to hamas as "freedom fighters" and now it stays to show people not everyone shares their opinion on gaza. It can feel like An echo-chamber in here.
By no means do I think Netanyahus modus operandi is appropriate for this century, that's not what I carry this flag for.
Umm nah please don't do that.
Israel (as in the state, not the civillians living under them) is practially doing the same thing as what Hamas is doing, terrorism. Both are terrible groups. I don't know which one is the worse one, but if someone claims one of them is "freedom fighters", supporting their opposition isn't helping whatever your argument might be.
I strongly disagree with you on that. Israel has a right to self defense. While the means might not be adequately / appropriately humane, saying they're the same is like saying thw US are the same as the Nazis for bombing Dresden.
One is the aggressor, the other is not. We can gladly diacuss the means (again, fuck metanyahu and his seemingly complete disregard fpr human life) but that doesn't change the fact tht one side wanted a war and the other was forced into it.
Plus the fact that wiping out Hamas will create an opportunity for lasting peace between Israel and Palestine (whether united or split into gaza and westjordanland) while not wiping it out will just make history repeat (or rhime) itself in a few years/decade(s)
Netanyahu should be sent to Den-Haag, but Hamas needs to be wiped out anyways.
isreal was very fair to the Palestinian population prior to hamas. a real out-of-left field move. no one could have seen et coming. not even a leader on the verge of being ousted.
Let me guess, you think the Treaty of Versailles allowed the Nazis to destroy Europe and gas people they didn't like?
Because that's a pretty similar Situation
.ml admins (yeah, the lemmy devs themselves, sadly) and mods are tankies, of course they banned you for that.
Just join a sane, smaller instance; that's the beauty of federation (and defederation of harmful instances like .ml or .world or hexbear).
The problem is that for some instances there's no alternative to lemmy.ml
Signal for example has no federated alternative
But I am open to a moderated, defederated, sane inatance if you know any.
LemmyNSFW seems fine to me, if you're OK with downvotes being disabled, and I'm pretty certain .ml defederated it because ooh, porn!; db0 also seems reasonable, and if I'm not mistaken both .ml and .world defederated it because ooh, piracy!.
And most of the smaller ones seem to be fine too.
Or just roll your own, that was always allowed.
They did not. I can still see lemmy.world posts just fine. It is also still on lemmy.world's linked instances, and lemmy.ml's.
Ah, maybe they refederated them, then, or maybe I'm misremembering (though I'm pretty certain there was some drama about this a while back... maybe they just block specific communities..?)
contemplates the option of having an account on a porn-specific instance
Tempting Idea...
Do you have any source on the Uyghur genocide? Because everything I’ve seen has been debunked.
Such as?
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher/
Fuck off you fucking genocide-apologist
So I take it you have no source?
https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/18/us-media-reports-chinese-genocide-relied-on-fraudulent-far-right-researcher/
What was the post?
https://lemmy.world/comment/13993260
Yeah, you can't talk shit about ethnic cleansing with an Israeli flag in your username...
As I said back then:
Nevermind, I'll just look at the modlog. You seem to have a bad habit of getting yourself banned.
Modlog seems pretty clean/inline with what the poster claimed
You could also add the NATO flag into your name to help maximize controversy.