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    So when you say .ml instances, you mean lemmygrad specifically? I am asking because my understanding is that .ml is just a domain extension.

    So are you thinking that tankies are using .ml as some kind of code? Or do you mean specific instances that happen to share the .ml domain extension?

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        Right okay. I was not aware that there are only two… and I think .ml is general use. If anything I thought it was short for machine learning, like .io is short for input/output.

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          I think there are only two.

          .ml was the domain for the country of Mali. Still is, actually - there was even some light panic a few months ago when Mali started changing terms for usage of the domain. It was chosen for two reasons - one, because the domain was free at the time of Lemmy and Lemmygrad’s founding, and two, because ml is also short for Marxist-Leninist.

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            I see! Thanks for explaining.

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        You are not going to like this…

        Some of these are memes. Some ard discussions. I see the point in a few. Have you tried reporting them?

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          https://lemmy.ml/comment/3396945

          https://lemmy.ml/comment/3671013

          https://lemmy.ml/comment/3852561

          https://lemmy.ml/comment/2122831

          I don’t know more you want. If effusive praise of Stalin (and quite clearly not in a sarcastic way; being light-hearted about white supremacy doesn’t make 4chan suddenly a bastion of tolerance, for example) and denial of the Holodomor isn’t enough to be a tankie, I really don’t know what the fuck is.

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            I agree that some are good examples. I think some are exaggerated but I’ll ignore those.

            The overwhelming majority of them are from hexbear finding their way to lemmy.ml. I honestly gotta check who is defederated from who. If we defederate from lemmy.ml, we’d get rid of those but we would be losing a ton of content in communities where there are no insane extremists. What do you think what the best solution would be? I wonder if speaking to lemmy.ml mods about it could help.

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              The overwhelming majority of them are also very much upvoted, and the tankies ARE the mods themselves on many of the main political communities.

              I’m not even advocating defederating from Lemmy.ml, unlike Lemmygrad, because I don’t believe that Lemmy.ml brigades or is aggressively toxic towards other instances.

              But that’s not the same as saying they aren’t infested with tankies, or run by tankies, because they very much are.

              The only real solution is to be aware of the tankies in lemmy.ml.

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                Yeah the intro to that Tankie video that person you linked to had posted… jesus.

                I think your solution is reasonable and preferable to me tbh.