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I’m personally not on lemmy.ml but they literally advertise what their ideology is. If I go to a meeting of socialists in my community, I am expected to be in agreement with, or at least tolerant of, socialist viewpoints. If you’re entering lemmy.ml you’re expected to tolerate ML viewpoints, obviously.

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cm0002@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
They do not, Hex and Grad, yes. This is the current homepage of lemmy.ml, nothing indicates them being a Tankie Instance supporting Authoritarian regimes and their misinformation:

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- ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The ML stands for Marxist-Leninist. I recall it being clarified better when I last visited several years ago. “What is Lemmy.ml?” is a link that expands on the instance as “niche” rather than mainstream.
  
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  - boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    ML stands for Mali, there’s no TLD for Marxism lol
    
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    eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    And there’s no domain for Team Fortress 2, but lots of people use .tf for TF2 focused websites.
    
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    ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No, it’s not a Mali instance. They’re using it for something else. You may also notice .io domains are not always based in the Indian Ocean, nor .ly for Libya, .tv for Tumalu, etc.
    
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    JackbyDev@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Lol. I think there is one for Republican and Democrat though. Which is funny. Or maybe it’s like conservative or something. I don’t know. There are so many TLDs now, it’s crazy.
    
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  - cm0002@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s not “literally advertising”, that’s an Easter egg, a very subtle hint or maybe even “coded language”
    
    In any case, it requires the person encountering it to already have a concept of it and background knowledge to some degree.
    
    This isn’t the 90’s/early 2000s anymore where there were only a few TLDs to go around, back then encountering .ml would have lead to a line of questioning like you say.
    
    But not today, today the average user doesn’t question the TLD anymore (as long as it’s not one frequently associated with “scams” like .xyz) because there’s just so many of them ranging from .io to .AI to .shop and .network
    
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    ora@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    As I said earlier, it was advertised. I didn’t make it up, it just isn’t written there anymore.
    
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prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yes but being federated with them means they can have their conversation in your space or overrun it, hence why op is saying it would be better to defederate

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- ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s why instances, communities, and users can be blocked and banned. If ‘their conversation’ is not allowed in ‘your space’ then do the thing and move on.
  
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  - prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    My dude that is literally what this thread is about
    
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    ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    ‘Do the thing’ is using the tools a user has at their disposal to block other users. Communities can block and ban users too.
    
    Defederation over moderation is not the thing I am suggesting. Especially not as part of a multiyear campaign perpetuating a bad-faith feedback loop.
    
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