Lemmy Developer removes comment in asklemmy@lemmy.ml for asking Russians if they are being oppressed by their government and if they support the ukraine war.
At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.
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Pick whatever instance you find first, they said. It doesn't really matter which one, you can participate all over lemmy, they said.
Now every time i post a comment, people automatically assume I'm pro Russia and a tankie on account of having an account on lemmy.ml
This sucks. I can't believe I'm gonna have to migrate instances to be taken seriously on discussions.
sorry to hear that. My first account was on ML too.
Yeah same. I moved after seeing too many words being censored like removed.
I was flabbergasted when I found out the word Chicken was sometimes censored. It would put removeden. Really saved me from those nuggets of hurtful baby hens.
I heard that the filter used to be hardcoded and there was a lot of controversy because the devs refused to remove it or allow it to be customized but they folded when people were willing to fork it to remove the limitation or remove it altogether.
We don't believe you, you tankie vatnik.
/s obviously.
FYI, just making a new user on a different instance isn't a big deal. Guess why there's a "3" in my user name. Come to think of it, my first account was on lemmy.ml too, although the main reason why I moved at that time was because I forgot the password.
I probably would've signed up at lemmy.ml if they hadn't closed registrations in the Reddit migration, very glad I didn't though from what has happened there. I signed up to Lemmy.world instead, and even though it is problematic in many ways at least the Admins there aren't trigger happy power tripping bastards, trying to promote their pro-russia tankie shit.
See it in a positive way: now you can carefully choose an instance that you like compared to your previous account
Also, this must be my 10th alt. It takes a few minutes to export/import the settings and that's it
Don't migrate because of the assumers; migrate to not subject yourself to an incompetent admin team.
Remember in the early days of the Fediverse when people said it was all about "freeze peach"? Yeah that was not good. Not only is it wrong and would disappoint and piss off a lot of people when they learn about defederation and that you can still get banned, but it also attracts a lot of extremely rotten people to the platform. Remember exploding-heads? Yeah that was a side effect of that lie to try and promote the Fediverse.
People are dumb everywhere. You're not really wondering about that hm? 😉 I wouldn't migrate because of that. Quite the contrary, the dumdums sort themselves out this way, saves a lot of time.
But what you also have to consider, migrating instances sends a signal. Its the same as people who stopped using twitter because of musk. When you continue using something you make it look like you font really care, so migrating your account is a good way to tell the admins that you dislike their policies.
While you're totally right regarding twitter, i can't say the same for those instances. I'm not deep enough in the matter to allow myself an opinion. I just don't know about any politics about any instance. If there is, you're totally right then too. Leaving is the best bet. If I'd knew my instance would wanna push a certain narrative, even if it'd be congruent with mine, I'd leave.
The Main Problem is, that the Admins are straight up tankies. They also have no problems banning you from all the communitys they moderate if you say something they don't like
I just have to take your word for it, because I don't follow the meta-politics on Lemmy. I'm just a user :)
If you're interested in it you can take a quick roundtrip about this community and you will see quite some examples of the Lemmy.ml Admins being tankies.
You should peruse their modlog a bit and see how many people are banned for it, instead of just taking their word for it. That's the benefit of Lemmy or other platforms, modlog is public.
