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Comment on Do you refrain from participating to a community if it's hosted on Lemmy.ml ?

No, because its nonsense tribalism. I haven’t seen any actual consistency in nonsense takes between any particular instances, with only a couple of extreme examples (explodingheads, grad, yddrasil, etc) that are already blocked or dehosted. ML has more socialists, because lemmy was a little leftist community project at first and it’s one of the oldest and biggest instances. Big instances also have a lot of idiots. World has a reputation for a lot of idiots, because it’s by far the biggest instance. That doesn’t mean everyone, or even most people, are idiots that are on the instance.

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Lightor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Ignoring reality doesn’t make it less true. Certain groups of people or environments are worse than others, acting like that isn’t reality is pretty naive.

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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t have anything against .ml users as a whole. As you say, every instance has its bad apples.

But .ml has the most hostile and heavy-handed admins of any instance I know of. It makes it impossible to have real conversations because talking about certain topics will get you instantly banned from the whole instance. It’s not about socialism either. In fact that’s part of the problem—I’m a leftist myself who would like to discuss leftism there and I used to enjoy doing so, but at this point that’s only possible if you follow the admin’s ideological beliefs on practically everything to a tee. It’s a toxic environment where real conversations can’t take place.

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m only an idiot when I fully intend to be one.

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zante@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This is the biggest flaw with Lemmy at the moment.

I think I’m on my 4th account . Mods tend to block me befor I block them.

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rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
When the admins spend more time banning people for speaking against fascist russia than developing lemmy it doesn’t matter what the userbase is like. And not wanting to participate in an instance where the admins religiously scan every comment for wrongthink is pretty reasonable and not tribalism.

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