I was curious what lemmy.ml has to say about this but it seems the linked post was deleted in the meantime 🤡
Comment on lemmy.ml has been banned in China mainland
GONADS125@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not happy with this development, but I’m slightly amused by the irony being that lemmy.ml is pro-china and has been moderated as such.
Kaldo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Wu9fee@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
The poster was banned for trolling but I saw a comment showing that it is real.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I recently commented on memes@lemmy.ml in a post that shouldn’t have been there about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and instead of removing the post they removed my comment while lying about the reasons, and the modlog is full of those. All of lemmy.ml should be considered suspect, and I’m not sure if lemmy itself shouldn’t be as well - anonymous voting, comments removed from communities are also removed from personal user profiles on your user host, no warning when your comments are removed … it’s basically everything that was rife for abuse with reddit, except handed to developers who get the first say about where lemmy is heading who clearly have fringe questionable political biases. I’m considering switching to my kbin.social account - which begs the question, shouldn’t there be an option to migrate user accounts between instances?
Neato@kbin.social 11 months ago
I don't understand why the pro China tanked subs would get banned but not the rest.
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Even China is embarrassed. You ever had someone defend you but really poorly? Ya.
1bluepixel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This but unironically.
I’m moving to China for work, so I’m interested in alternative points of view on Chinese society from the usual U.S. mainstream media CCP hate boner. I checked out lemmy.ml and hexbear, and… my goodness.
They cheer for a version of China that the Chinese themselves would be embarrassed by. It’s clearly driven by 14-year-old white boy edgelords who are enamored with a hardcore Marxist-Leninist vision of China that never existed, most likely in reaction to a dislike of modern Western capitalism. I mean, they referenced “struggle sessions” with nostalgia and cheer for Bashar al-Assad because China is being friendly to him.
Real-life China is quite different from the depictions you see on main Lemmy instances, but it sure as hell isn’t anything like what the tankies are jerking off to, either.
vidarh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It feels like most Western CCP cheerleaders are basically cheering on a pre-Deng version of the CCP and haven’t quite noticed that the CCP of today would totally purge anyone pushing the pre-Deng/pre-1978 views of the CCP.
ttmrichter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“China” isn’t “embarrassed” by lemmy.ml or hexbear.net. “China” just shuts down access to non-Chinese social media sites as they are discovered. Any social media site that isn’t currently blocked in China is on numbered days until they are blocked, whether “pro-China” or “anti-China”.
ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This is true. I was kidding. That said, the Chinese government does engage in social media. And they probably would see lemmy users as a poor messenger, if they cared about lemmy.
throws_lemy@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
Right? I and others were also banned from talking about China and Uyghurs on world news on lemmy.ml
mojo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
How is lemmy.ml pro china?
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ML stands for Marxist leninist, which means they love authoritarian regimes that don’t like the US. The number of them that unironically stan Stalin is baffling.
TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
.ml is the tip level domain for Mali, it doesn’t have anything to do with Marxist-Leninism by itself. They may have chosen it as a tongue in cheek reference, but it is also a cheaper alternative to other more popular tlds like .com.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Right. And TV means Tuvalu but it actually means television far more often than Tuvalu when it’s used in a domain name.
mojo@lemm.ee 11 months ago
ML is machine learning. It means they love teaching AI to overthrow the illuminati government lizard people. Can’t believe u didn’t know that, kinda embarrassing
nlm@lemmy.one 11 months ago
.ml domain naimes used to be free (together with .ga I think it was) through freenom so it might just be that they snagged themselves a free domain that just happened to be ml.
Not saying you couldn’t be right but not everything is quite as well thought out as it first seems.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is there really any irony? China has troll factories operating on popular factories like Twitter and Facebook, and those are banned in China as well.
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Hexbear might as well be the CCP propaganda wing, this development is fucking hilarious