“.ml has a bunch of huge comms” is nothing but a myth anyways

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

By MAUs, only a single .ml comm is in the top 25, doesn’t even crack the top 10 and it’s a meme comm

Join the boycott of the tankie instance Lemmy.ml today! So we can show instance admins of the wider Lemmy-verse that .ml does NOT reign supreme and it’s NOT worth it to “look the other way” on the .ml admins documented behavior because of their supposed “biggest comms”

Congrats to [email protected] 👏

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
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    First off, going to apologize because I’m trying to explain things with the most minimal bias I can muster.

    To explain as easily as I can, there’s a wide variety of attitudes on Lemmy. .ml is notorious for being pro-Russia and China, banning anyone who speaks out against them. They’ve also been held as the largest, most active instance, so they’ve heavily gotten away with how users are treated for voicing differing opinions. You can also find mass downvotes against people who speak out against .ml, even outside of the instance, with members flooding in to defend them.

    They’re part of what people on here call the “Tankie Triad”, using communist rhetoric as their defense for what many outside of the group think is absolutely abhorrent behavior.

    There’s a lot more complexity going on, especially with the main Lemmy devs openly holding the same viewpoints, but that’s a very surface level overlook.

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      I assure you, it’s not just our rhetoric that’s communist. We Marxist-Leninists believe in the purest version of communism: a centralised state with defined social classes and government backed currency. Just like Marx advocated! Our Dear Leader Stalin enforced his dream of a state where the workers reign supreme, by using tanks to suppress workers’ uprisings. All hail Stalin!

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        3 days ago

        Truly only someone who has read theory would understand this. Oh great theory reader what wisdom do you have.

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          Linux isn’t real. It’s a CIA psyop designed to fool us into thinking decentralized organising can accomplish things of value. Linux was actually created by the centralised authority of the state.