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Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and Lemmy.ml will filter out most of it. Ani.social will flood your feed with furry porn, so unless that's your thing, I'd do them as well.
Lemmy.ml is somewhat more neutral. In Lemmygrad you can sometimes have a discussion, but you will probably be downvoted. Hexbear is just toxic, it's like Lemmygrad but for 14 year olds.
No it isn't.
Lemmy.ml is run by the same group of people that run lemmygrad. They took over the domain a couple of months ago. Since then, Lemmy.ml has turned into a tankie paradise.
Moreover, Lemmy.ml will apply inconsistent moderation without ever informing you what happened. I was having posts removed, no one was telling me anything, and then suddenly I was banned for two weeks. I tried reaching out for help to get clarity and there was zero response.
Lemmy.ml is a dumpster fire that should be avoided at all possible costs unless you want to deal with reddit style moderation and behavior combined with the toxicity of lemmygrad and hexbear.
I can tell you Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml are not the same. If anything, lemmy.ml is privacy/tech based more than anything, with disdain for capitalism. They're not hardcore "AYE, COMRADE" like hexbear or lemmygrad, Jesus christ
Theyre run and populated by the exact same people, bud
They are a little bit more mask on than mask off, but they are just as hardcore tankie because its literally the same people
NO??? ml was the first general purpose instance and so had the most amount of users at the beginning, meaning a lot of normal communities developed there
Don't confuse the newbie who just got out of his Reddit bubble, he's scared and alone
Right, keep pretending the admins arent the same. Blame reddit for your confusion over 2 servers being owned by the same people.
Surely you will look clever, and smart. No one will find you out
Oh good! Let's trot out the condescension!
Your sense of entitled elitism does not redound to the quality of your character.
Okay, liberal.
Thank you for literally proving my point for me.
Genuine question, is that like supposed to be a legit insult or more ironic?
They definitely see it as an insult. Check the comment history and you’ll see there is no attempt at irony. Just an angry poster who’s fallen too deep into it.
If you go to very leftist areas of the internet (socialist or communist areas, anywhere from anarchistic (bottom left) to authoritarian (top left)) you'll see people using liberalism by its political science definition, rather than the definition its taken on within American culture. It stems from the idea of capital moving freely (that is, liberally) without restrictions. You'll also see it referred to as neoliberalism in the same spaces.
Full disclosure, I myself am pretty extremely socially libertarian (arguably borderline anarchistic), and have used liberal derogatively myself.
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wasn't ml started by Dessalines/nutomic??
THAT makes sense why ani.social defederated from Lemmy.ml (I only subscribed to the anime instance since it had the largest user base)
Edit: the “.ml” anime instance is still the largest compared to everyone else. What a shame that we can’t move away from it
This was Ani’s side of the story: https://ani.social/comment/2199318
Lemmy.ml defederated from ani.social, pretty sure cuz the borderline pedo bait
Yep. Explicitly because of CSAM
Gonna have to be that guy again, but underage cartoon porn is not CSAM. CSAM as a term was invented to help law enforcement focus their limited resources on actual child victims. Underage cartoons are still child pornography, and still wrong and illegal, but CSAM is something else and deserves more immediate action.
There's no point in having technical terminology if it isn't used correctly :o)
Lemmy.ml is run and was started by the developers of Lemmy. The developers themselves align with lemmygrad, however they try to keep their politics out of lemmy.ml for the most part. It's debateable how effective they are with this, it probably ebbs and flows somewhat.
Moderation without informing you is common across all lemmy instances. Moderators have to go out of their way to notify you, there are no automated messages to go along with moderator action. However, lemmy has always had an open modlog, so you can see why you were moderated if you look it up. Note: sometimes I've had difficulty loading the modlog, particularly the instance modlog (where an overall instance ban would be), though community modlogs tend to load fine.
Also, you should bear in mind the difference between instance admin and community moderators - a community moderator is allowed to run their community as they see fit, within the rules of the instance (like reddit was supposed to be). If a moderator wants to ban you, they may have every right to per the instance rules, even if they have no good justification or you didn't break any rules.
Certainly, the hexbear admin are just as bad as the hexbear moderators, and will throw bans around for dubious reasons while protecting their own committing the same offence. Lemmygrad moderators seem a little less eager to ban, but they're still looking for any excuse. I haven't had any encounters with lemmy.ml moderation though, but I wouldn't consider the place a dumpster fire - that title firmly belongs to hexbear.
One good reason to keep lemmy.ml is simply to keep up with lemmy back-end development.
And attempt to engage in secondary unused communities? A lot of the most active communities are on it, you are just asking for your home page to be either way too filtered or a wasteland.
I have cut lemmy.ml out of my diet entirely. My homepage is perfectly fine. People really dive back on this but all lemmy.ml offers is toxicity. Is that really worth looking at in the first place? Even if it was all a wasteland, that's still preferable to a toxic landfill.
I don't think !pokemon@lemmy.ml is that toxic, or !linux_gaming@lemmy.ml, or !patientgamers@lemmy.ml
I always have my home to "Subscribed", I see nothing really bothering me
Given the admin that is in control of all of those, and admin who have proven that they love to micromanage and moderate individual communities, then yes. Yes it is that toxic.
!patientgamers@sh.itjust.works is just as active
then subbing to ml as well will give you twice the activity
Lemmygrad and Lemmyml are run by the same insane people...
Yes indeed but despite their more extreme beliefs compared to the average lemmings, they are quite lenient and accepting with lemmy.ml. I wouldn't call the devs insane, solely for the fact that they gladly welcomed all the Reddit immigrants despite that they get numerous hate posts about their ideology.
Just to clarify, I'm just a normal libcenter guy, not an extremist.
My multiple bans would suggest otherwise, you either get downvoted or banned. They really don't like it when people actually agree with you.
That wouldn't have anything to do with you being an obnoxious dink, would it?
Huh, didn't know that. Lemmyml seemed totally fine though?
Lemmy.ml is run by the developers of Lemmy. They align with lemmygrad, however they try to keep their politics out of lemmy.ml. How successful they are with that is another matter.
Well, I've never come across anything that made me notice, which is certainly a good thing.
If you want to see the face of a instance, look in the modlog.
They're all radioactive shitholes. There is no "lesser evil", it's all hypocrisy and willful ignorance in those circles.
Lemmy.ml has several solid communities, including the largest AskLemmy community. Their top 20 largest communities are all pretty mainstream and don't really see the kind of posts/comments that make people wary of Lemmygrad or Hexbear.
I've had multiple bans from Lemmy.ml, they are anything but neutral. The best way to cop a ban is to make a comment arguing with their point of view that people actually agree with, they hate that.
They're also some of the most insufferable people on the Internet.
Not even remotely close to 2/3, and it's the whiney and annoying chunk anyway. I don't want to "not engage", I want them out of my feed.
Same, its just garbage and a shit load of snowflakes that break with the smallest difference in opinion or jokes that don't fit with their political opinion.
seconded. lemmy.ml has afaik the biggest interesing communities for FOSS, privacy, Memes, etc.
Aka whining about YouTube ads, paranoia, and communist whingeing thinly veiled as humour.
No big loss.
You could have stayed on reddit, but here we are.
Lol they always out themselves
Seems like you outted yourself as cringe.
Jesse what the fuck are you talking about dot jpeg
You really love the bomb, do you?
It's not, but even if it was that would mean 2/3ds of lemmy is full of licking authoritarian boots and genocide denial, so I'm fine with not seeing that.
Add ani.social too IMO.