• @Photographer
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    51 year ago

    there was some consensus to remove lemmy.ml from recommended based both on its load and its politics

    • @WooChooTrain
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      51 year ago

      Huh is there some controversy with its politics? I haven’t heard of that yet!

      • @lich_hegemon
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        1 year ago

        The admins also run lemmygrad and they are not shy about it.

        Edit: this is hearsay from my part.

        • @SeeleLowe
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          31 year ago

          Can you elaborate on that for those of us who have never heard of it?

          • noodlejetski
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            41 year ago

            they’re heavily pro-Russia and pro-China, remove comments criticizing violation of human rights by China, and use phrases like “Ukrainian invasion” and downvote people who say that hey, it’s Russia who’s the bully.

          • @lich_hegemon
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            1 year ago

            Lemmygrad is a radical left communist instance. That’s is not a lot of people’s cup of tea

            Edit: while the above is true, and I’ve heard the link between the admins and the instance mentioned a few times in Mastodon. I have not been able to corroborate it myself.

              • God
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                11 year ago

                The good thing is since it’s federated and open source, we can just make our own instances without them and block them. The bad thing is since they have the biggest instance (lemmy.ml) because, well, they made it and pioneered it, it’s unlikely we’ll want that or them blocked.

                I think this is one of the reasons why many ppl are pushing to join Kbin instead since it’s a bit more separated from the “overlords” than lemmy. I don’t really know a solution yet to this problem, let’s keep exploring.