So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy’s version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

  • @cloudless
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    Block these instances: lemmy.ml lemmygrad.ml hexbear.net

    There is no point arguing with tankies. They are dumb and they won’t change. I just hope there will be a way to completely block those users including their comments. They are polluting the fediverse.

    • Ignacio
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      5010 months ago

      I just hope there will be a way to completely block […] users including their comments.

      Remember who the developers are.

      • @cloudless
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        3110 months ago

        Yeah. I hope kbin will grow and have a decent mobile app, then I can finally move over.

          • @agent_flounder
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            710 months ago

            And eventually we will have Sublinks I hope?

        • cabbage
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          710 months ago

          Check out Kbin.earth and the Interstellar app! :)

          • Cloudless
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            410 months ago

            When I tried the Interstellar app earlier, it crashed frequently. Just tried it again with the current version and it seems to be very stable now. Thanks for the suggestion.

            Is there something unique about kbin.earth? I am using kbin.melroy.org for now, which runs on mbin.

        • moosetwin
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          410 months ago

          yeah as soon as sublinks has an actual public instance i’m switching over

        • @[email protected]
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          210 months ago

          But… Kbin can federate just as easily with those instances as Lemmy. You shouldn’t think “I’m going to move to kbin”, that wouldn’t help in any way.

          You should rather move to an instance (using any backend you like, Lemmy, Kbin, doesn’t matter) that has defederated from the instances you don’t want to interact with.

      • SavvyWolf
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        1010 months ago

        They seem to be really anti-nsfw, so that could be a driving force for improving their instance blocking (and is probably the only reason it exists in the first place).

      • @TrickDacy
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        410 months ago

        They are anti blocking or…? I don’t understand this comment.

      • @Klear
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        1410 months ago

        That’s just you finishing the tutorial.

      • @[email protected]
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        610 months ago

        I got a permanent ban on lemmygrad within days of making an account, see supporting Ukraine defend itself is obviously NATO apologia. I think the problem wasn’t even my stance but that were actually convincing, they’re not blocking you for saying “fuck tankies” or making bad arguments, they keep that stuff up to make, by extension, any criticism of their party line look stupid.

        Only got temporary bans on lemmy.ml, for things such as pointing out that OP’s article itself said that Ukraine didn’t lay claim to the territories in Russia it officially recognises as “historically linguistically Ukrainian” in response to others in the thread doing the usual “Zelensky is a Nazi oppression Russian speakers” thing (never mind Zelensky being a native Russian speaker and Jew).

      • @[email protected]
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        510 months ago

        I got banned from some of these as well! First time I’ve ever been banned from anything lol. Guess it’s a badge of honor on lemmy

        • @hodja_nasreddin
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          No. It’s just said you are nazi creep who simp for terrorist right wing state like modern Ukraine,

    • @[email protected]
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      I just hope there will be a way to completely block those users including their comments. They are polluting the fediverse.

      There already is, go to an instance that defederates from them. Or try to convince your current instance to do it. Or make your own personal instance so you’re in control of what you defederate from.

      • @NOT_RICK
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        5210 months ago

        Based on what china is doing to fishing and military boats from the Philippines, I doubt they’re just after ‘transit’. They’re making a territorial claim. Not much different from Russia’s claim on Ukraine, except that its happening in international waters.

        This is what OP was banned for. It’s not just the world news community, the admins police wrongthink across the entire instance.

        • @[email protected]
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          1610 months ago

          And the Streisand effect has carried those words to people who would have never seen them.

          Hope you’re reading this .ml!

        • @cottonmon
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          I wonder what the listed offence was, because what OP stated in the comment is absolutely true. Did they conveniently forget the 9-dash line? China is absolutely laying claim to waters that have already been declared to belong to the Philippines.

          • @NOT_RICK
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            410 months ago

            OP said the offense was “yellow peril”

        • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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          910 months ago

          ? Since when. I used to have an account there months ago when I migrated from reddit. I don’t think I would have missed that at the time

          • @[email protected]
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            Yeah I had an account there too and I set it up like every other account. Found out later on that ml was Marxist Lennin so I setup shop at lemm.ee instead

            • @[email protected]
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              .ml is the top level domain for the country of Mali. .ml domains are free, so it is just a coincidence. Also, Marxist-Leninism is not a ‘tankie’ theory, by itself. There are plenty of communists and socialists that aren’t simps for China and Russia.

              I would even say that you can’t be a true communist and support either of these countries, because these countries are not communist at all. They are just authoritarian capitalistic hellholes, with sprinkles of social policies to give the illusion of pursuing a communist society.

                • @[email protected]
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                  Fuck I’m retarded.

                  I’ve been here for months and kind of known all these components but just never connected the dots.

                  I was even defending Lemmy at one point.

                  • @[email protected]
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                    Well, lemmy is code. From what I heard the indefensible thing about it was the utterly unoptimised DB usage but with influx of new devs that got quite a bit better.

                    At the beginning there were talks about a fork but one doesn’t just fork a FLOSS project if there’s no technical reasons, or reasons regarding project management, and in that regard dessalines appears to be sane.

            • @LifeInMultipleChoice
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              310 months ago

              I never knew whether that was true, I just drifted away from it. .ml just means it is on a domain designated for Mali, but they could have explicitly chosen that domain to use it for another purpose.

        • @[email protected]
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          610 months ago

          This is blatantly not true. To sign up for lemmy.ml, you have to provide an email, name, and a couple sentences of why you’re joining. You should stop inventing false statements and spewing them on the internet. It’s not good for anyone. In fact, it makes everyone who dislikes lemmy.ml look like idiots.

        • AlexisFR
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          Damn, I guess looking back, the .ml wasn’t about Mali lol

      • @Moghul
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        1810 months ago

        It is they who are extreme.

      • @[email protected]
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        Not at all. There’s nothing good that has .ml at the end of it here. You’re missing nothing.

      • @cloudless
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        I don’t miss anything there other than the Firefox community.