Comment on Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

• goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Would that mean anyone cross posting from there or using rss to post what’s there elsewhere is spreading NK propaganda? 🤔

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  • cm0002@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You wouldn't believe the amount of straight propaganda I have to filter out when crossposting from there, it's another reason I can't automate it. No way I could trust automation to sufficiently filter that crap out. Russian propaganda sites like RT always seems to crop up over there with odd urls like "swentir[dot]site"

    ::: spoiler Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
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    I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

    Megathread on the issue

    Some highlights from the link:

    "Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

    "See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin
    https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

    .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558
    The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

    "NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

    General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

    "If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

    And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

    I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

    On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
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    • goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      So only if special users do it?.

      Interesting philosophy to hate the tool while still using it and pulling others content from it.

      Cool crusade you have there

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      • cm0002@piefed.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So only if special users do it?.

        No idea what you mean on this

        Interesting philosophy to hate the tool while still using it and pulling others content from it.

        Code is code and isn't inherently poltical it was released as open source for those to do with what they please.

        Cool crusade you have there

        Thanks! Are you going to go make another thread on hex about it :) just wanna know if I should make up a batch of popcorn

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