I’m confused. I thought lemmy.ml was like lemmy.world and lemm.ee - one of these big “general purpose” instances that new users would pick if they don’t have a specific reason to pick a “specialized” instance? Since when they did become warring factions?
.ml is full of Marxist/Leninists, and while they are not as full on crazy tankies as most users from hexbear, they generally tend to skew that way. Not everyone, but there’s a theme.
lemmy.ml is where all the tankies from lemmygrad.ml have their alts. It’s also run by the same people and their worldnews community is a joke moderation-wise, as in you can catch a ban for pointing something out the linked article itself states if it doesn’t vibe with the mod’s tankie narrative (say, that Ukraine isn’t claiming Russian territories it describes as “historically Ukrainian” for itself, it’s just calling them historically Ukrainian because that’s what they are).
lemm.ee OTOH has some rules tankies might occasionally run afoul of. Also our admin is Estonian, traditionally not a people particularly enamoured with Russian imperialism.
lemmy.ml once was a default instance, before the reddit exodus it was the only big one, but it seems users are draining off of it because, well, see above.
I’m confused. I thought lemmy.ml was like lemmy.world and lemm.ee - one of these big “general purpose” instances that new users would pick if they don’t have a specific reason to pick a “specialized” instance? Since when they did become warring factions?
.ml is full of Marxist/Leninists, and while they are not as full on crazy tankies as most users from hexbear, they generally tend to skew that way. Not everyone, but there’s a theme.
Wasn’t that lemmygrad?
It was indeed what I thought of. But from what mr kangaroo fucker says the point still stand.
It’s both of the .ml instances. IMHO the majority are not actual Marxist-Leninist/Communist, it’s just a facade they use to spread propaganda.
I have no problem with communists, but I hate lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear for spreading authoritarian propaganda.
lemmy.ml is where all the tankies from lemmygrad.ml have their alts. It’s also run by the same people and their worldnews community is a joke moderation-wise, as in you can catch a ban for pointing something out the linked article itself states if it doesn’t vibe with the mod’s tankie narrative (say, that Ukraine isn’t claiming Russian territories it describes as “historically Ukrainian” for itself, it’s just calling them historically Ukrainian because that’s what they are).
lemm.ee OTOH has some rules tankies might occasionally run afoul of. Also our admin is Estonian, traditionally not a people particularly enamoured with Russian imperialism.
lemmy.ml once was a default instance, before the reddit exodus it was the only big one, but it seems users are draining off of it because, well, see above.