I for one have stopped posting any content to lemmy.ml communities.
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2024
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As long as it's not only lemmy.world communities you start growing. Centralization won't lead to good outcomes anywhere.
Absolutely! Grow a community on any instance that doesn't allow the kind of users that lemmy.ml does I say.
I think we gave them too much power by making their communities as big as we did
I'm glad there is enough critical mass to move past those fucking hatemongers. "Pure free speech and anarchy!" If you say exactly what we want you to, also don't accidentally offend us with normal fucking words
"Free speech!"
Ok tankie.
"Not like that!"
Or more subtly:
I can't even say life's a bitch over there without being filtered because of misogyny which I guess? But that's not my intent and I don't think the majority read it with that connotation. What if I just want to quote a Nas classic?
It gets dumber: last I checked their word filter doesn't pay any regard to a comment's set language so even If I set my comment to French "retard" will be filtered on ml communities and to their users regardless of where I comment.
Edit: actually, let's see if this has been fixed, test French comment in reply to this:
Edit2: lmao
I've tried to talk about fire retardants there once... It gets cut too.
Je suis en retard
oh no I'm not allowed to use a slur even though I'm using it in a common phrase that originates as the slur being used as a slur
I'm supposed to get away with doing things
Dudes takes are so bad even he doesn't want to upvote them lol:
You realize my point was when speaking French I should be able to use it as it's a different word that's just spelled the same as the English slur.
That was the whole point in making my test comment it's own reply.
Did you only read half of my comment?
What about the French example?
You said two stupid things but only one of them was fun to make a joke out of.
Your french shit is equally stupid. "But it's not a slur in a language we aren't speaking right now so I should get to say it!!!"
How about you just stop having a piss fit you spoiled little fuck? Not once in your 'analysis' are you bothering to do the literally only valuable piece of thought work: actually measuring the cost/benefit of having a strong deterrence to bigotry vs "I can think of a word that has a slur as part of it but can still be easily understood by people reading it through context clues"
When a piece of shit only weighs the cost of doing things to protect vulnerable minorities and not the benefit to those people, it's pretty fucking easy to suss out their beliefs on the issue in general.
I think maybe you need to take some deep breaths.
I'm not upset even though this entire conversation is about me having a fit about not being allowed to say slurs
You are upset because you're making fun of me for it and explaining why it's bad
I am a nazi from 4chan
...what?
You realize it's a normal word in French right?
They're not anarchists tho. Don't associate anarchism with .ml bullshit
Of course, because there is no true anarchist.
What do the call a fallacy where you find an imaginary fallacy in someone else's argument to sound smarter?
A (false) fallacy fallacy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy
Is it a fallacy? I frequently run into self-styled anarchists who describe other self-styled anarchists as "not real anarchists".
.ml people don't even describe themselves as anarchists, from what I've seen. And those that do, often hide behind that label in bad faith
not like someone describing themselves as an anarchist while flying a ukraine flag lol
Nation-states and anarchism don't technically clash insofar that you could have a nation that's ruled by anarchy.
Just like you Russians are ruled by autocracy. (That's a pro-Russian account.)
Ah, here are the aforementioned .ml people. I wonder, do you specifically search out mentions of you in other instances to engage in conversations with people who don't like you?
I think they generally try to keep themselves in their echo chambers, but as they're federated, can't sometimes help themselves and have to input some would-be-snarky comment they think is ever-so-clever. Then they get ratio'd hard, they get their bot-armies to vote on when they're off instance (if you look you'll see quite a lot of the time there might be a lot of downvotes for opinions against them, but always at most one or two more than how many upvotes it has. it means for mobile users the comment looks less reactive than it is).
Then their egos get hurt because we bitch slap reality in their faces and they go crying back to whatever grad they crawled out from.
Honestly I think this one just could pass by the Ukrainian flag. I don't have much love for our government, but I put the flag in my online accounts so that it triggers pro-russian trolls. Still beats living in russia, at least here I can't get jail time for saying I like a man
But they don't even pretend to be anarchists, they're Marxist-Leninists, hence the ml
If "they dont even pretend to be anarchists", then why would the comment
be necessary in the first place?
If you look at the comment above that one, you might be able to figure it out
The comment above demonstrates that non-ml members perceive ml members as claiming anarchy among their values. If that impression exists, there must be a reason for it - which is that ml members do in fact claim to be anarchists.
Therefore, in the context of this thread, it is valid to point out the existence of self-styled anarchists claiming that other self-styled anarchists are "not real anarchists". The existence of this thread demonstrates the truth of the statement, regardless of whether you personally like the conclusion or not.
Please don't try to make a logical argument when you can't get this right. The comment above only demonstrates that at least one non-.ml user perceives .ml users as being self-proclaimed anarchists. There must be a reason for that, and that reason does not have to be that .ml users are self-proclaimed anarchists. It could be that this commenter is simply misinterpreting the views of .ml users.
You didn't even get the fallacy right. Rockerface didn't modify their statement at all. All they said was that the users of .ml instances aren't anarchists. You never provided any examples of anarchist .ml users, and they never modified their initial claim to protect it from a falsifying example.
I was in an argument with some .ml tankie yesterday, and they had the gall to say that "free speech that doesn't threaten the government is tolerated everywhere," in response to a comment saying that the CCP censors speech. They didn't like my assertion that that statement also applies to Nineteen Eighty-Four's Ingsoc party. It's technically true, that free speech that doesn't threaten the government is tolerated in Oceania. It's just that the government considers any dissent threatening.
My last straw was when I made a meme on their meme instance that had no Asians, anyone related to Asia, or racism in it. And they removed the post with 500+ up votes and a healthy discussion, because my title was "Rice."
They literally told me rice, the word by itself, is racist. I just chose a random word for the title to fill the blank.
Yeah, we'd hate to make a good alternative when everyone can just use Bluesky and Meta.
The hate for .world simply because of size doesn't make sense to me. It's fine to make new (unique) communities elsewhere, but shunning the biggest successful communities on .world to try to grow empty communities on other instances is cutting off your nose to spite your face.
If you're constantly shunning the biggest instance simply for being big, you'll end up killing Lemmy.
I don't think most of the data in the network should be hosted by a single legal entity, that's just unhealthy even if the protocol is open. It's also my main complaint about bluesky- technically open protocol, de facto centralization.
There's more than just being big, those things may not matter to you, or even the majority, but I've heard enough gripes repeated to know some people are bothered.
The flip flopping on policies without clear transparency bothered some people but tbh I forgave that as growing pains of being in charge of a new popular platform.
The one mentioned more often is how they're one of the main ones to federate with Meta's Threads. Integration isn't really there right now anyway but every other major Lemmy instance has preemptively blocked them already:
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I can respect the Threads thing. That's a valid reason other than "we need to be even smaller".
That's not the argument, please don't trust it needlessly like that
The point is that having everything be on one instance results in the centralized abuse of power we saw with reddit
Per example: .world has some famously bad power mods (a certain soaring mollusk comes to mind) same as reddit, growing communities outside of that centralized area gives us a place to run when they finally snap completely, as is inevitable with power mods
This is very easy to do thanks to how Lemmy works
That mod has one political community. That's it. "They" appears to be one mod of one community that you have an issue with.
It's not that we need to be smaller, but we benefit if we all grow similarly, or at least the community distribution does.