Every time a ml/hexbear community that I might be interested in pops up on my feed, I block it, then manually search for a non-tankie version of the same thing and immediately subscribe. The amount of pro-authoritarian content I've been exposed to has dramatically dropped.

In a recent discussion in the Matrix chat, it was mentioned that donations to support development have recently fallen off quite steeply. I mentioned my reason for not donating anymore is because I can't support anyone who runs an instance like .ml. @nutomic@lemmy.ml said I could donate directly to him since he doesn't do as much moderation over there, but also mentioned that donations for development go towards server costs for .ml. Hell no.

Lemmy .ml is partly why I switched to an instance which defederates them. The admin and mod behavior over there is gross. If it weren't run by the Lemmy devs it would be widely blocked.

I wish feddit.org blocked lemmy.ml. I keep getting vitriol and queerphobia from their users.

cause nobody wants to get dragged into a ten page discussion about why China and Russia are the most democratic countries in the world

Yeah, blocked hexbear too.

Those people are absolutely fucking unhinged and do not engage in any sort of good faith argument.

After one round, I got name called, after round two asking for clarification, I just left.

Time is precious, the squirrels in my yard are more coherent than these chucklefucks.

Hell, even two crows would be better

Lemmy.ml seems to just downvote different opinions in masse without responding with respect.

After a few attempts to engage respectfully and just getting negative interactions I just blocked them entirely.

You know, the differing opinion isn't so bad. It's that they're such pricks.

I'm lucky to not have been too exposed to most of their tankie apologetics for authoritarians, but I did notice a pretty staggering number of them were under the impression that Trump and Harris were literally identical.

And no, I don't mean in the "the democrats are center right and often vote similarly to republicans on many issues" 'identical' view, I mean "They both do an equally bad amount of things, just in different areas, and neither is worse than the other" 💀

I got banned to 40 days from .ml memes for arguing that the republicans were worse than the democrats or something mild like that.

I actually like seeing their posts on my main account. It allows me to keep up with their lingua franca, so I can more easily identify their alts on normal instances, so I know not to attempt to engage in good faith.

I joined Lemmy in November. By New Years I had independently figured out what was wrong with .ml and its users.

The less of that garbage, the better.

@goat@sh.itjust.works do you think this thread would make a good candidate for a sticky?

I'm updating this fairly frequently as my megathread now LMAO

I was against blocking them because i dont want to create an echochamber(and i still support this on an instance level) but after they banned me and just keep downvote bombing anyone whos not a fucking poo tin or whinnie boot licker i had to block them.

i found out earlier how to block instances like hexbear and ml.

I tried to tolerate .ml because they've got some good linux and foss focused communities. Ultimately I decided it wasn't worth it.

I appreciate this. Id been gone from Lemmy for a bit but just unsubbed from all the .ml groups I had.

I just block every site and user with that ending that I see. I've been banned on almost any of their sites anyway.

I think the whole "saying anything different from what we like? You're banned" thing is also playing a good part.

The FIRST thing I did when I set up my piefed instance was defederate all of the tankie triad

Like it or not, we can shine a light and hope they see.

I am as libertarian (as opposed to authoritarian) as they come, and I still hope I (and others who share my sentiment) will be able to convince them the merits of a world with human rights, diplomacy, and freedom — that is not needlessly violent and forceful.

We can move past barbarism, but to do so we must define what comes next to those who have shut their hearts to the truth — especially to those who have spent arguably too much time reliving the horrific violence of the 20th century.

I don't need to boycott them, I don't feel the need to block them. Everybody is within their rights to do so though, but I will keep slowly trying to win them over to the idea of a more kind and free world.

Creating Lemmy and the fediverse is of incredible value to humanity. They provided a timely medicine to the internet — a decentralized platform that is not controlled by an American corporation and ruled by algorithms. I don't feel like it's a lost cause to do my best.

The behavior of the head lemmy dev makes me regret migrating to lemmy on any instance, and makes me think I should seek something else entirely until a hard fork is adopted by mutiple large instances. I don't want even steps association removed with such people.

could you pls put the exclamation marks on the links to those posts in the same way you did for !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works ?

thanks for this concise list of stuff .ml has done btw

This just made me realise my feed is just that bit cleaner and there's so much less news, it's actually quite calming.

Thanks for the recap. I kinda get the instance federation stuff, but not fully. I realize they are flagship or whatever, but it aint like its that big a ship, even on the biggest one. Is there any consideration of defederating them now?

"Known propaganda outlets (like RT)"

Sorry but... What's RT mean in this context? Rooster Teeth? I've got no clue.

I'm kinda still new here, so thanks for the info! I think I've figured out how to block the instance, but is there a guide on blocking or something or a way to check?

My rebuttal to this post: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/45909409

Yay another thread where .ml users will post so I can block them!

Hopefully we can grow up as a community and defederate completely one day!

I've had them muted on Boost for a while, haven't missed 'em XD

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. It is very buggy in some instances. I also wish that when a user that is blocked or banned from an instance or the user of a comment or a post they are replying to, it would indicate so. It isn't that there is no reply to what they are saying, it's that we are not bothering with it, and that would make it obvious when it happens.