I know it’s .ml where such things happen but ffs! This guy needs to fucking chill 🤦

  • @Lumisal
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    89 months ago

    What is lemmy.ml and lemmygrad? I’m just a casual using Voyager

    • @RememberTheApollo_
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      Instances operated by pro-Russian or pro-BRIC individuals/groups that have no interest in dissenting opinion and often spill out into the rest of the fediverse posting anti-western propaganda.

      • @[email protected]
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        209 months ago

        Basically, it’s flat Earth theory but for geopolitics. They believe the exact opposite of what everyone else does so they can have a tight-knit community devoted to being smugly superior to the sheeple.

      • @lennybird
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        139 months ago

        Hexbear falls under this umbrella, right?

        • @[email protected]
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          Absolutely. Hexbear seems like the most insular and loud one of all. Lemmy.ml can be fairly normal sometimes, actually, just because it’s the OG site and gets a lot of general traffic.

      • @PanoptiDon
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        -49 months ago

        Does this break the rules of the fediverse?

        • @RememberTheApollo_
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          What rules?

          The rules are what each instance operator makes them (outside of breaking laws). It’s up to the other instance operators to defederate from instances that they don’t want direct sharing with for whatever reasons. So if lemmygrad wants to be anti-west, make anti-western posts, comment on current events and insinuate or blame the West for whatever, post trolling comments or fake news, that’s what will happen.

          • @[email protected]
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            09 months ago

            Even breaking laws could fare fine if they’re unimportant enough. A child porn instance would have cops breaking down the server room door, but I’m pretty sure there’s already piracy-friendly instances, and a shoplifting one can’t be far behind.

            • @[email protected]
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              A child porn instance would have cops breaking down the server room door

              Burggit.moe does synthetic child porn, stuff like loli/shota material. That’s First Amendment-protected in the US (and is apparently legal in the Netherlands, where the server says that it lives), but is illegal in a number of countries in the EU.

              piracy-friendly instances

              lemmy.dbzer0.com was created specifically to do piracy stuff, and is one of the major Threadiverse instances. And db0 himself has contributed a fair bit of software to improving Threadiverse infrastructure:

              https://github.com/Fediseer/fediseer

              https://github.com/db0/fedi-safety

              • @[email protected]
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                18 months ago

                A drawn loli seems like a victimless crime to me too, TBH. I find it personally gross, but I mind my own business.

                Interested to see if this starts shit.

        • @Hubi
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          It’s not as bad as Lemmygrad but most news threads about Russia/China/Ukraine are a total shitshow over there.

      • @UnderpantsWeevil
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        -119 months ago

        Instances operated by pro-Russian or pro-BRIC individuals/groups

        “Everyone I Don’t Like is Hitler An Evil Foreigner”

      • @Lumisal
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        18 months ago

        How to block? And I’m still a bit confused about instances. How do I know which I joined?

        • @[email protected]
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          You’re on lemmy.world

          You can go to https://lemmy.world/settings click the blocks tab up top, and then add instances to block in there, in the box marked “Block instance”.

          I think lemmy.world has already defederated lemmygrad and hexbear, so you should just need to add lemmy.ml

      • @[email protected]
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        18 months ago

        Thanks. I wanted to create a Lemmy account and this one seemed like the the most generic default one, huge user base, ran by the Lemmy devs, all right surely it’s the safest, most non-controversial choice.

        Then I see stuff like this.