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I have MULTIPLE spreadsheets I've kept from every job search just for this day LMAO

A drop in replacement fork? No, I've thought about forking it and rewriting in C# (my preferred lang, which might also have the effect of attracting more contributors (C# has WAY more active open source devs than rust)) but historically political forks tend to flame out and I know I probably won't have the time to support it myself if it came down to it which is the only way to keep a political form from flaming out

That being said, the infusion of their ideology has generally been kept to a minimum in the actual code. There's certainly concerns, like how they made the modlog less useful and potential to steer people to .ml unfairly with the main Lemmy landing site. But nothing overt

Lots do, but I personally use Boost

They hate anything the west supports and support anything Russia/china hate

I have no doubt in my mind that if Israel was supported by Russia instead of the US and keeping all else the same, they would be simping for them instead

Nope, they'll just disregard any credible source as "liberal", they'll refer to Wikipedia as "liberal pedia" or some shit if you try to use it against them

Basically they're MAGA in a different claimed direction.

You mean...like....."BlueMAGA" LMAO they were the bluemaga all along lolol

Projection all the way down lol

A few have, but it's been brought up before

Some don't want to because it's a "flagship" instance and ther fore has many old comms on it (But on that note, it's only by subscriber count, which never goes down unless a user actually unsubscribes from a comm, so .ml memes might have 50k subscribers, but the absolute vast majority of that is gonna be dead, deleted and maybe even alt accounts, if we go by Monthly Active User metrics like off of lemmyverse.net you'll see that very very few .ml comms still beat their non-ml equivalent.)

Some don't because of fear of retribution from dessalines or at the very least "slow walking" of any issues that might come up, not likely to happen with smaller instances. But if you're as big as say .world, then that could be a potentially huge problem and would be the exact kind of instance dessalines would choose to flex this retribution on as a message.

Some don't because they prefer to have their users decide for themselves (e.g. dbzer0.com) or have an alternative such as lemmy.zip's default block which block the whole triad for new users. Which is fair, there should be instances on the Threadiverse that are unfiltered for uh "Politically thick skinned users" but they should not be put forth to prospective users from Threadiverse advocates looking to bring users from reddit.

And then there are some that do, infosec.pub and Lemmy.cafe are the 2 that come to mind, but I'm sure there are more

There's a mirror for nearly every .ml comm of note, and in a lot of cases a few different mirrors across a bunch of instances.

For example, linux (in order of size) has !linux@lemmy.world and !linux@programming.dev and !linux@sh.itjust.works and !linux@sopuli.xyz and !linux@discuss.tchncs.de

I also crosspost all (good) .ml content to drive comm activity off .ml to non-ml equivalent comms and whenever I do encounter one that doesn't have a non-mo equivalent I make one

So lmk what .ml comms you peruse and I'll tell you the closest non-ml version or I'll make it myself if it has recent activity or you could also use Lemmyverse.net which is a fantastic tool for Threadiverse comm discovery

I don't think too many should, there needs to be visible pushback against their crap for new users

I also don't because 1) I'm crossposting all good content to non-ml comms to boost activity in those areas and suppress the .ml versions and 2) I document things here so they can't do what they want to do in silence and subtlety like they like

@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works summed it up perfectly

"Material conditions" are leftist-flavored "facts and logic." The actual concepts matter... but the people pounding the table about those phrases don't even know what they mean.

**Would you rather be advocating for socialism under milquetoast progressives who ignore you - or under fascists who want you skinned for moving pamphlets? **

**Would you rather be fighting for easier name changes as trans rights - or debating whether married women get to vote? **

Does any sane person honestly believe Kamala Harris would have handed Elon Musk a machete and pointed him at social programs? Or treated every federal institution like she bought them and they owe her money? Or bombed Iran despite this inevitable outcome?

Wouldn't your entire life be better, without Republicans in charge?

Not voting for the most leftist available candidate to you only makes the organizing you preach that much more harder. Unless of course you want the Tankie outcome, accelerationist bloodshed in the name of the revolution.

Tankies see that as a win, to them USAID and anything similar was just an "imperialism tool"

Lol yea they never stopped, but ofc an election is coming up so naturally they're saying it more and more