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I knew it was a leftist instance. I went into it (naively) excited to engage with a more thoughtful leftist internet space, considering it was a bunch of reddit exiles who were upset about heavy handed Reddit censorship. I was quite disappointed to learn quickly that it was just more of the same tankie brain rot, with more of the same tankie censorship you can find in a thousand different tedious places.

Even then I stuck with it for a bit. And then I learned that the head admin was potentially the most fragile person on the Internet, who literally will not post outside his own instance because he cannot handle any internet where he does not have (what he believes to be) a "win argument" ban button. It is literally so cringe, I cannot stand to be associated with it, and I don't understand how other people tolerate being associated with his antics.

I've got an ml account too, but at the time I think world was normal. I think world has also gone the Reich way.

wait, what does it stand for?

I'm pretty sure I'm banned from .ml.

Badge of honour.

The best jokes have a lot of truth to them!

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.world has its share of awful and part of why I rock piefed, but I chalk a lot of that up to essentially being the default instance.

Not the users though. I have .ml blocked, which means communities hosted there (therefore moderated by them) don't show up. However I still have to read their tankie comments.

And for some, that's absolutely the best solution!

To me, the fediverse is already pretty small so I don't like blocking and making it smaller. So, personally, my compromise is to see everything but consider the source before responding etc.

(And judicious use of piefed's user note system; good ol' vomitty face for the unpleasant non .ml folks and a big ol' smile for the sane seeming .ml peoples!)

The instance admins of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml, who are also the developers of Lemmy, have a wide variety of harmful views including genocide denial, transphobia, and support for authoritarian regimes. They are incredibly ban-happy and spend an unreasonable amount of time removing dissenting opinion from their communities instead of developing the platform. They've got a bunch of people in a complete echo chamber where saying anything critical about their favourite regimes earns you a ban despite there being no rules against it. Their users tend to also be the genocide denying, authoritarian bootlicking type.

I think the problem is how authoritarian it is. It feels like living in Russia or china. If you say anything bad about china, russia, NK, or the moods you are attacked like you are the anticrist and banned.

From my experience I would risk to say many of those accounts are not even "real" people just a lot of ccp or kremlin police. Really zero freedom to express any ideas or even debate

Racism, political extremism, and kinda just assholes.

Racist people hang out with racist people. Sexist people hang out with sexist people

People are absolutely fucking amazing at self segregation with out realizing it.

Some people here think it’s a huge life choice to pick an instance and get weirdly tribal about it. For most, it probably isn’t.

There’s no doubt that some instances have a certain flavor and attract some types of users that don’t mesh as well with others as the rest, on aggregate, but it’s still just a fucking window to the same boards.