Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.
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It's actually pretty simple, they've inadvertently self segregated.
So the dudes who maintain the code for Lemmy, which is a framework that most of these instances are built off of, are what we call "Tankies" because they support the Chinese dictatorship, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, etc. They're the "Communists" with emphasis on the quotation marks, so to speak. They oppose "Capitalist" countries which are any western nation that stands in the way of expansion. They oppose "Liberals" as they claim it's a "Capitalist" ideology but actually because it's the ideology of promoting human rights which conflict with their ideal form of government.
Now, I mentioned those dudes maintain the code, they also maintain the landing page where a lot of people are first exposed to a list of lemmy servers to pick from. Other frameworks are being developed right now so we can move away from Lemmy, such as Piefed which is the backbone for Piefed.social and Piefed.world but they're still missing a couple of features.
For example the instance you and me are on, Lemmy.world , is also run by Piefed.world hosts but the lemmy.world allows attaching images to comments while Piefed.world lacks that functionality as of yet, though they did recently update to a new version. Our instance is one of many defederated from Hexbear and Stalingrad, which are the same Tankies as ML but with the masks off, they unapologetically promote Xi Jinping and Putin, so those users cannot interact with our posts or comments at all, but it still remains federated with Lemmy.ml sadly as that's the lemmy instance where news about the framework and updates come from.
The reason why all of this is happening is because somebody is paying for it. Some lonely internet users in the west are funding a place to go, while some military regimes are funding it because it's a psyop made to promote their goals and create radical infighting in the west. The fediverse is everything great about other social medias with less of the cons except for the fact that we completely lack the ability to defend it from hostile actors in ways that a large corporation with unlimited resources and centralized detection algorithms could (if they even would).
It really raises eyebrows when you come across users who have posted nothing but aggressively anti-US anti-NATO anti-EU stuff for several years straight. No other interests. Nobody talks about politics nonstop. Nobody. It's straight up bizarre.
Lemmy ml even has a rule of "don't call us Russian bots or we'll ban you"
You have now been permanently banned from lemmy.ml
Well said. I can name quite a few that I’m sure everyone is familiar with.
Yeah it's bizarro. My own post history usually reads more like something out of r/rimjob_steve so whenever I notice that sort of consistent political narrative I tend to suspect alt accounts lol
How does opposing the most evil empire in the world raise any eyebrows? If somebody consistently posted pro-Palestine content only, would you make the same claim?
I could see some arguments for the US, (and even those are likely to be short sighted and naive), but the EU?
The EU is as guilty as the US. It participated in Afghanistan, Iraq, the bombing of Libya, the one of Yugoslavia, and European countries maintain neocolonial relations with the global south, whose people and resources they exploit.
France, the country that in the 1960s murdered a million Algerians who wanted independence, right now upholds the CFA in 14 countries in Africa, meaning these 14 countries have no monetary sovereignty and their central banks are located in Paris. To maintain these schemes, France has troops stationed in Africa, ensuring that only governments loyal to the desires of France get "protection".
Many African independence and democracy activists have been murdered by EU plots to maintain the neocolonial schemes in their countries. All of the EU countries have maintained full economic and diplomatic relations with Israel during the ongoing genocide, and some like Estonia have gone as far as opening their first Israeli embassy a few months ago.
You can find skeletons everywhere. The idea that Europe is the worst on the basis of what you list as one country having what looks footnote like compared to for instance, the USA or China, is bizarre. Seems like hyper focus on their faults due to being partial to the others.
If "European neocolonialism" is a footnote to you, you're not rational and the discussion is pointless.
Its clear you aren't trying to have an honest discussion given that my comment was completely within context as a comparison to other entities which you had to deliberately remove to make your current statement.
I did not have to remove it in fact. Comparing European Colonialism and Neocolonialism in the last 70 years to anything China has done in the past 70 years and saying it's a footnote, is ridiculous