Mine happened when i first made a reddit account, i got banned from a subreddit with a tankie moderator because i questioned the logic of having lenin as the subreddits profile, for a subreddit devoted to anti conservative memes.

  • @Zstom6IPOPMEnglish
    10•1 year ago

    same, i assumed lemmy.ml was normal, but NOPE, its fucking insane, though i should have assumed it would be from its name, i just never thought about what ml stood for.

    • gk99
      6•1 year ago

      Lemmy.ml is a stain on the fediverse. As much as Dessalines and Nutomic preach that “if you don’t like our moderation policy you can start your own instance,” lemmy.ml’s dominant position means it’s hard to realistically defederate and ignore, so by default their (unclear and tankie belief-based) moderation policy is effectively getting enforced no matter what.

      I tried using the “block instance” feature kbin supposedly has, but it didn’t work. On the upside, lemmy.world, kbin.social, and beehaw.org seem to be doing quite well.

    • DarraignTheSaneEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Okay you’ve got me… what does it stand for? Hadn’t given it any thought really, just thought it was a top-level domain that they picked at random.

      • @Zstom6IPOPMEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        ML stands for marxism leninism, the predominent tankie ideology, all the admins are marxist leninists as well.

        • DarraignTheSaneEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I guess I never connected the dots there. I knew about the devs what with their profile pics and the lemmy.ml about/description, etc.

          However, I think there’s a world of difference between being a Marxist / Leninist and being a Putinist.