LW and the tankie triad hold 40% of the monthly active userbase of Lemmy.
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this post was submitted on 06 Apr 2025
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Thank you for choosing well!
I had no idea using .world was a bad thing tbh, I just made a backup on another instance in case I lost access. Guess I'll swap to using it full time.
It’s not bad. If you check the modlogs of most of the people crying about it, you’ll find that many of them are either banned, or have had their shit removed for being debate trolls.
There is a lot of “free speech for me, not for thee” people around here, as they stir up shit in .world and then run to their instances where anyone that disagrees with them is banned. Then they accuse .world of bias.
Can you explain this to me in very simple terms? What's the problem with .world? When I signed up I was told it was just the most broad, sort of "default" instance. What's wrong with it? Is there one with a larger user base I should be on instead?
Lemmy.world has an overwhelmingly "US Democratic Party" slant, politically, as far as mods and admins tend to lean. As a consequence, it often censors criticism of the DNC from the Left, and is defederated from instances it disagrees with politically.
Check the modlogs and show me one example of a mod removing something critical of the DNC, that didn’t break the rules. There is TONS of shit on .world that is critical of the DNC from the perspective of the left. YOU have posted quite a bit of tit yourself, so stop the bullshit.
In contrast, go ahead and check the modlogs of .ml and note how the ADMINS- not the mods (which are powerless there) remove shit every day they demonstrably break no rules whatsoever- because its Critical of china/russsia.
The hypocrisy is mind-blowing.
Check my modlog, I was permabanned from Political Memes for calling out the DNC's involvement in the Palestinian genocide (with sources), then asking the mods how that broke the rules, which angered them into banning me. I was also temp-banned from ask lemmy for calling out a known transphobe, which the mod defended as "aggressive misinterpretation" on my end (despite the history of that poster's transphobia). I also got permabanned from tankiejerk for giving a nuanced opinion on Socialism from a Marxist perspective, when the post gave an unclear definition.
So no, in my experience, Lemmy.world is filled with censorship, on top of outright defederation from the major Marxist instances. Explain to me how it is "free speech" to create an echo chamber that aligns with the US status quo.
Finally, I am not a mod nor an admin of Lemmy.ml. I don't remove comments or posts. Regardless of how Lemmy.ml is run internally, I have access to far more types of speech through federation, that those on Lemmy.world are deemed not allowed to even see in the first place.
Here it is.
Looks to me your shit was rightfully removed for directly accusing the DNC of actually being the ones committing genocide.
I can’t say for sure what went on between you and them behind closed doors, but you were spreading agenda-based misinformation. I’d have removed your shit too.
Now note how much anti-democratic content still remains there. Then ask yourself what’s different between that content, and the bullshit you posted.
Then go ahead and look at the shit the children that run .ml remove.
Arming and supporting Israel in their genocide against Palestinians so that the US can secure its economic interests in the region is well-documented. Unsurprisingly, you go on to defend moderators that classify anti-Zionism as anti-semitism, it makes sense that you would consider the DNC's involvement in the Palestinian genocide to be "misinformation." Seems to me that you're just a fan of Zionism, given how hard you bat to defend it.
How does one go about figuring out this information? I've seen no evidence of censorship, but I also don't really know what it would look like. I do I learn an instance has been defederated.
As a side note, we need to come up with a MUCH more simplified way to teach people about the fediverse if we're ever going to get a large enough userbase. This shit is very complicated and confusing compared to more mainstream social media.
There are modlogs for all instances. Check them and you’ll see that you are being lied to. You’re right. .world doesn’t censor things that don’t violate the rules. And there is nothing at all in the rules that state you cannot criticize the DNC.
In fact, the person that’s bullshitting you, posts criticism there and is not censored. There’s TONS of criticism of democrats in .world. In fact it’s about 50% or the political content there.
Most of the people that cry about .world are either banned or have been temp banned many times for trolling and violating the actual rules of the instance. Not disagreeing.
That’s what .ml does.
Just interacting with it and word of mouth, really. You can check federation, or scroll the drama communities, but at that point it becomes very "tryhard" for social media.
Please do!
As someone fairly new to Lemmy, y'all should just try making informative posts. I see lots of posts exactly like this, but there's never any substance. What exactly did those instances do to earn their reputation? Start there. I'm close to blocking some communities because the lore just has no entry point so why bother.
Basically:
It helps to adopt the mantra of "block early, block often". Sometimes you can salvage a community merely by blocking one (or a few) posters/commentors, other times it helps to block the entire community (on PieFed there are additional options beyond merely Subscribed vs. All vs. Local, but on Lemmy you have to jump through all of these hoops, so yeah, blocking helps a ton).
There are occasionally lore posts but people vary SO MUCH in what they consider "good" or not that it is hard to have those conversations without them devolving into shouting matches - unfortunately some people are not content to allow others to have their preferences without things like trolling and brigading and going through someone's entire comment history and downvoting literally everything they've done, etc.
But keep watching, occasionally those lore posts do come up every now and then.
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I left lemmy.world because of how they dealt with the piracy thing and how they blocked instances
How did they deal with piracy? And why block instances
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