• ERROR: Earth.exe has crashedOP
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        610 hours ago

        I’m glad you’re speaking out against Uyghur genocide, but having an israel flag in your username is kinda sus considering what’s happening in Gaza.

        • Blastboom Strice
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          48 hours ago

          Yeah, I scrolled the comments and kinda surpised almost no-one mentions it. Getting mixed vibes…

        • Understandable. Adding it was kind of a knee-jerk reaction after seeing someone unironically refer to hamas as “freedom fighters” and now it stays to show people not everyone shares their opinion on gaza. It can feel like An echo-chamber in here.

          By no means do I think Netanyahus modus operandi is appropriate for this century, that’s not what I carry this flag for.

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            48 hours ago

            Umm nah please don’t do that.

            Israel (as in the state, not the civillians living under them) is practially doing the same thing as what Hamas is doing, terrorism. Both are terrible groups. I don’t know which one is the worse one, but if someone claims one of them is “freedom fighters”, supporting their opposition isn’t helping whatever your argument might be.

            • I strongly disagree with you on that. Israel has a right to self defense. While the means might not be adequately / appropriately humane, saying they’re the same is like saying thw US are the same as the Nazis for bombing Dresden.

              One is the aggressor, the other is not. We can gladly diacuss the means (again, fuck metanyahu and his seemingly complete disregard fpr human life) but that doesn’t change the fact tht one side wanted a war and the other was forced into it.

              Plus the fact that wiping out Hamas will create an opportunity for lasting peace between Israel and Palestine (whether united or split into gaza and westjordanland) while not wiping it out will just make history repeat (or rhime) itself in a few years/decade(s)

              Netanyahu should be sent to Den-Haag, but Hamas needs to be wiped out anyways.

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                25 hours ago

                isreal was very fair to the Palestinian population prior to hamas. a real out-of-left field move. no one could have seen et coming. not even a leader on the verge of being ousted.

      • @[email protected]
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        1114 hours ago

        You missed the beauty though in what happened though. Lemmy isn’t worse, one instance was. So here you are still.

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        21 hours ago

        Lemmy.ml is one instance.

        Join smaller instances so no one instance can dominate on many topics.

        We should avoid creating monopolies.

        • sunzu2
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          -116 hours ago

          That’s a right of passage on fedi, kinda like getting banned on new and politics subs on .world for discussions on dead parasite or israli Jews committing genocide in gaza

        • @Maalus
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          It’s not just lemmy.ml… That’s the problem with any instance - that an idiot like me can just host one and be “the king”. Then a community grows, but the king still sits on the throne - whether he is qualified or not. Reddit had years to get rid of most of those issues with established modteams. Communities that had bad moderation faded away. Communities that “made it” had okayish mods since there were thousands of people to pressure a team acting like a-holes. Lemmy has barely any users compared to that, so a bad admin / moderator is more visible. Also, lemmy is heavily skewed towards echochambers, even more than reddit was.

          Splitting communities just creates more issues - with having to crosspost to 2 or 3 groups of people who might not interact with one another. It’s honestly no wonder that there exists a “mega instance” in lemmy.world

            • @Maalus
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              Provided everyone sees it and moves there and not just stops seeing the content altogether and forgets about it. Remember, social media is like 95% lurkers. Also this assumes you are moving instances instead of there being two already that have different people watching them / moderating them.

      • @[email protected]
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        1620 hours ago

        .ml admins (yeah, the lemmy devs themselves, sadly) and mods are tankies, of course they banned you for that.

        Just join a sane, smaller instance; that’s the beauty of federation (and defederation of harmful instances like .ml or .world or hexbear).