6d ago

"We only allow Kremlin approved sources on this instance comrade! Things from credible sources that go against Kremlin narratives are just CIA PROPAGANDA! BAN!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, head Lemmy dev

Source: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?community=65904

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Currently, there are still large communities on lemmy.ml. Contact their moderators and tell ask them to move to another instance and/or merge with other existing communities!
!memes@lemmy.ml
!linux@lemmy.ml
!asklemmy@lemmy.ml
!privacy@lemmy.ml
!worldnews@lemmy.ml
!programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
- Programmer humor is already on programming.dev, same with privacy and Linux
- Subscriber count is essentially a worthless metric on Lemmy, it's overinflated because of dead accounts. The older an instance and it's comms, the worse it is. .ml being the original most of it comms are old and way overinflated by dead accounts.
  For example !linux@lemmy.ml has something like 55k subscribers, but the entire Threadiverse only has ~50k monthly active accounts.
  MAUs is a much better metric to go by, and by that standard there are only 2 main comms that haven't been dethroned by a non-.ml alternative yet !linux@lemmy.ml and !privacy@lemmy.ml
  But !linux@programming.dev is getting there!
  
  Fully agree. I sorted lemmy.ml communities by MAU and listed a few from the top
  
  oh are we the threadiverse?
- The users are who need to move. A bunch of those mods actively ban users who call out tankie bullshit there. The whole damn instance needs to be defederated.
  
  Not just that. People should switch from lemmy to one of the alternatives (mbin, piefed) entirely. Dessalines is still main lemmy dev after all and that's not going to change...
  
  I was about to point that out, but it looks like the mod that banned me for pointing out negative things about Russia is no longer a mod.
  I've unsubbed from most communities there and things are much better now
An American is taking care of the Russian community and defending it from CIA propaganda, that's so anti-imperialist. I'm sure Russians are thankful 🙏
- Is the "big D" actually an American? I haven't really tried to look up any history on the dude.
  
  Yes. He mentioned it in his reddit comments, but even if you don't go out looking for it, there are various indicators - language (exclusively English), the fact lemmy.ml is registered from a US address, the fact that all of his discourse is heavily US-centric.
  Frankly, only an American can be this obsessed with CIA.
  
  I think someone managed to figure out he was in belarus or something
I saw an .ml user argue that North Korea and South Korea were basically equivalent.
- Well that's unusual, usually they argue that the South Korean government are "occupiers" LMAO
- I mean, we have a despotic "communist" hellhole and corporatocratic capitalist hellhole.
Damn, a ban just for posting an article. Dude seems like all the criticism is slowly getting to him.
The source is American propaganda https://about.rferl.org/faq/isnt-rfe-rl-funded-by-the-cia/
Sure, it's not "literally" funded by the CIA, but it is "literally" funded by the US federal government
- Receiving a grant doesn't mean that they're beholden to the grantor or automatically make their opinions propaganda. That's like saying Mr. Rogers was a propagandist for teaching kids to be kind to one another because PBS receives federal grant money.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_(money)
  
  I suppose you also believe that RT isn't Russian state propaganda either, for the same reasons.
  "But that's not the same!" ok
- My dissertation was funded by the US government, Greg. Can you milk me?
- You....you do know how many programs are funded by the US gov right?
  Or is this a "Big bird was a CIA spy" comment.
- Healthcare, education, veterans' benefits, housing, environment, science, pensions, social security, transportation, foreign aid, welfare, agriculture, etc is all "literally funded by the US Federal government". So we should blow it all up, right?
  The world isn't black and white, for the most part. There's nuance in literally everything...
- Indeed, old equations still apply I presume? Sponsored by US govt = bad. Forced by ~~Soviet~~ Russian govt = good.

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