It's almost certainly because of the tankie factory that is .ml and the fact that it's admins are all hard core tankies (including the main dev! And ofc the whole infamous Nutomic transphobe incident)

Coupled with the fact that a few of the biggest communities are on .ml does not bode well.

That's why I keep calling for a general boycott against posting content or comments on .ml communities.

.ml doesn't want growth, they want a tankie echo chamber, if anybody wants to actually see Lemmy grow at a healthy pace it starts with shuning the hostile tankies and their instances.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 25 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Coupled with the fact that a few of the biggest communities are on .ml does not bode well.

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

0 community in the top 10
2 communities in the top 20

That’s why I keep calling for a general boycott against posting content or comments on .ml communities.

!linux@programming.dev is a good alternative to !linux@lemmy.ml

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[–] occultist8128@infosec.pub 13 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

sorry, but what does tankie mean?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 20 points 23 hours ago

Generally, those who praise authoritarian regimes who mask, or attempt to, themselves in the cloak of communism/socialism e.g. China or Russia and are SUPER anti-West (Parroting views of the China Russian regime)

Which comes with a whole host of shit takes, like Russia being justified in their invasion or even denying Tiennamen Square and definitely denying the China Uyghur genocide

Basically, they've gone so far left they've circled back into Right-wing authoritarianism

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 13 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

[–] occultist8128@infosec.pub 7 points 22 hours ago

oh i thought tankie means different here

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[–] hono4kami@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I wrote this before

I spotted Dessalines posted literal propaganda on some community I joined

gotta be honest that does not sit well with me

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Switch to Piefed or Mbin?

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow that change is from June 2023.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yes, that's quite old, not sure why OP is bringing this up now.

Most of the people here know about the Lemmy devs political stances. Quite a few people are waiting for Piefed and Mbin to catch up. Nothing new to see here.

[–] teohhanhui@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (8 children)

I don't know. I just came across it yesterday, and I thought it'd be something interesting to share.

It was explained in the post's body actually:

Curiously, it does not list Lemmy under the list of Reddit alternatives.

Most of the people here know about the Lemmy devs political stances.

Seeing as I've only started using Lemmy less than a month ago, I've only just very recently started realizing that.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 16 points 1 day ago

It's okay, I see your account is quite new, so no worries.

As I said, those issues are known, you can have a look at !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for posts complaining about power tripping mods, be it lemmy.ml or elsewhere.

The key takeaway is that even with its flaws, Lemmy is the biggest Reddit alternative by far (Discuit has less than 200 weekly active posters, Lemmy has 42000). If there would have been a better alternative people would probably have moved there, but there wasn't (and still isn't) any, so here we are

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[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Block .ml

Block me

Who cares how others use Lemmy? I don't. Feel free to make another feud post this week. Stick it to us champ!

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