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I'm kind of okay with this. It was a reasonable take -- not a hot take or an incendiary comment or something. Mods using their power to shut down discussion -- expected on that instance I guess ;)

This is my first time getting any sort of ban on any lemmy instance. Now I just need to get banned on a right-wing server for some other centrist take, to keep balance in the universe ;)

How many of you have experienced this on lemmy.ml?

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[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago

Tankies gonna tankie

[–] MamboGator@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (6 children)

It would be nice if other large instances like .world had the cojones to defederate .ml because they're getting tankier by the day. They're almost as bad as lemmygrad. Just because it's a large instance run by the Lemmy devs doesn't mean they should get special treatment. If they're going to allow (read: encourage) crap like this, they should be cut off to prevent it from spreading.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Defederation shouldn't be the first solution to problems with other instances. If they want to be overzealous and heavy handed with moderation on their site then they will lose users who want more fair and effective moderation. But if you defedate with them, then their users just get stuck on these echo chamber communities.

Defederation should be a last resort to deal with poor moderation of abusive content, not moderation that we don't agree with.

[–] MamboGator@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When an instance's admins actively support hostile regimes and condone mods censoring posts about human rights abuses and genocide while spreading propaganda, it's not a simple disagreement.

.ml has no problem with people defending Russia's invasion and genocide in Ukraine, or denying China's genocide of Uighur Muslims. But they'll delete posts calling out Turkey and Hungary for acting in bad faith as NATO and EU members.

They're not just allowing but encouraging disinformation to propagate across the fediverse in order to win more support for their dictator daddies. Instance admins have the same responsibility to prevent dangerous disinformation campaigns from spreading as any other social network. They can either opt to do so on their own, or they can wait for regulations to force them to like Facebook and Xhitter.

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[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There is a realistic scenario where Mali starts reclaiming domains who are using their TLD to mean Marxist-Leninist.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that why they use .ml? I had read somewhere that it was just an especially cheap domain to use or something?

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mali had a ten year period where they were allowing free registration. That doesn't exist anymore.

They also keep getting classified documents due to typos in army.mil email addresses and similar ;)

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"They also keep getting classified documents due to typos in army.mil email addresses and similar ;)"

Government of Mali: "We should be taking advantage of this more than we are..."

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[–] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure they're paying for theirs though. The free ones were taken away recently.

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[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Listen some of us made accounts on .ml when we had no idea what we were doing making a lemmy account, mkay

[–] SlicingBot@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Seconded. I joined .ml because they were the first to have a formula 1 community.

I prefer to follow the news on other instances like beehaw and .world to avoid your experience.

There are normal/non-radical communities that exist that would be lost via defederation.

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmygrad and .ml are run by the same people. The latter is the "public" face I suppose

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There are sometimes insightful perspectives there that could lack in other instances. I much prefer to have access to .ml and .world news in my feed as well as .ml users in .world threads. Given the 50 years of neoliberal, anti-worker programming we've been showered with in the West, I appreciate points of view that challenge it. I don't not agree with the CCP schmoozing that goes on in .ml, but there's also useful opinions on workers' rights, democratic socialism, looking at problems from class perspective, etc.

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[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don't show a tankie reason and logic, they meltdown and get very hostile. Weak sorts of folks.

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[–] bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I learned recently firsthand .ml does not take kindly to the word tankie lol

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope, they ban you for it.

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~They didn’t ban me just deleted my respective comments.~~ Edit: i was banned from worldnews@lemmy.ml for opinion that the Chinese gov controlled media was propaganda.

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[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hoorah, welcome to the club! It is a badge of honor really. I use a separate account to have some discussions on .ml but in the mean time I added lemmy.ml to my instance blocklist and Lemmy has been wonderfull since.

A big issue seems to be that users looking for worldnews get their world news instead of world at lemmy.world..

And yes I sometimes have discussions on .ml as I think some of the extrimist idolization needs to be called out. So that if normal people see such comments they can also read a dissenting viewpoint.

And every now and then, just to tell a tankie that the Uyghur camps are real... Getting banned and doing it again.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I once got banned for “BlueAnon nonsense”, and I still have no clue what that means.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I got curious and looked it up.

"Blue Anon" is a term coined by conservatives attacking those who push "left-wing conspiracy theories."

The phrase is a play on the name of the radical conspiracy theory QAnon

So nonsense lmao

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

Oh, boy… when the mods over there are calling me the same names that Marjorie Taylor Green uses, I know I’m on the right side, lol

[–] Ilikecheese@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

The good news is neither do they.

[–] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry to hear that mate. Same here, made a post about it too. I think it's a few users with an agenda, combined with an automod that carries out the actual ban, and mods who don't review. Discuss. Block (optional). Move on.

Also: as the thread gets active, tankie users may try to hijack your post with comments blaming you for your ban, calling you names/ libtard/ govt bootlicker etc. Ignore these idiots. They come out hot and expect your reaction. Don't drop to their level. Be better.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Western chauvinism is when you criticize right-wing strongmen, and the more you criticize the right-wing, the more chauvinist it is.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying it makes sense...

[–] amio@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

Well, then you'll get bann- oh.

[–] RampageDon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It must be getting worse on .ml world news. Either that or they have some new power tripping mods. This is like the 5th post I've seen in 24hrs about being ban from there.

[–] bigboig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is an election year ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

I don't see anything wrong with what you wrote. And what the hell is "western chauvinism" really? Eastern Europe and Western Europe are simply not THAT different culturally.

The only thing I would actually add to your comment (which would obviously get me banned) would be to say that vetoes should not be a thing in NATO...for ANY country.

[–] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good point. Turkey has been a bad-faith member of NATO for years now.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had cases where I got Hexbear dogpiled, so my comment got deleted. However, the mods still kept the dogpiling comments and I was still getting responses because obviously hexbear was brigading.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's how I found out I was banned. Tried to reply to a reply.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like someone might have been a bit trigger happy. 😅 Perhaps "dealing with them" got them into a twist. Given how we've "dealt with" some leaders we didn't like in that past.

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't lemmy.ml full of guillotine memes?

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[–] Cloudless@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 1 year ago

Congrats. I don't have any experience because I have been avoiding and blocking lemmy.ml.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
[–] shani66@ani.social 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't even know if my instance is federated with them, all the better if not imo.

[–] kaboom36@ani.social 3 points 1 year ago

We aren't, I'm still confused how an instance without any NSFW communities is "full of porn" lmao

[–] Ignacio@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

According to this list, ani.social is federated with both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You got your wish on a right wing instance ban, it's clear from the Russia+China fandom. They just pretend to be communists

[–] therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

There's no way people like that exist. The guy who banned you is playing a character

[–] Vilian@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

turkey and Hungary are from "eastern world"?

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy

Western world, western democracy, is largely a term referencing a style of government, not physical location.

"contrasted with illiberal democracies and with dictatorships"

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