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Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml
Also perhaps block me if you strongly disagree with the above.
I would encourage that, but if your instance doesn't defederate them you may have to go a bit farther since you'll still get replies from lemmy.ml users, as users are not blocked as part of this functionality. And that is by design, it's not meant to act as a replacement or alternative to defederation, it's meant to act as an alternative to blocking all communities on an instance.
That instance's mods blocked me this morning lol.
The amount of people simping for Russia in that other thread is insane. Apparently calling Ukraine a country of Nazis is fine, but saying Russia is a dictatorship is not lmao.
If you see a tankie or pro Russia comment, 99% of the time it's a lemmy.ml poster
yep I got banned from there for simply stating that ukraine has a right to defend themselves after Modi called for "peace". Apparently absolute pacifism is only required from one side.
Hexgears and of course lemmygrad.ml are of the same kind
Yeah, but most instances already defederated from them.
😄exactly! Phu, the brain gymnastics that those people are capable of is mind bending 🤣
Can we see where someone is hosting a Lemmy (domain, insnace, thing?)
Well I doubt it's Mali.
https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=lemmy.ml
France. Maybe. It's mostly guesswork, but gives the same location for hexbear.net.
It's mostly cosplay commies rather than actual Russians.
Yea I figured it's just a bunch of middle class kids who have the privilege of being online and complain. Also fuck Hexbear....all my homies hate Hexbear.
I guess, you got to check IP and see what country it belongs to, but if they use a VPS or VPN or both, you can’t really know where the person who manages the instance lives / operates.
Sometimes it is posted on the instance front page or about page.
This topic has nothing to do with being "pro-Russian" instead its being pro-individualist and pro-open source
I'm pro open source, which is why I don't want the Russian government interfering with it for their own geopolitical bullshit.
I agree, but people aren't their government. Discriminating based on nationality is xenophobia.
I heard Russia is full of Nazis, and if that level of hearsay is fine for staging a multi year invasion and destroying a thousand years of history it's just FINE for segregating bad-actors and persona non grata.
Can't deal with it? Move to a less shitty company not sanctioned by scumbags. Or even a less tribal country 🤷
Did you miss the fact that it's not a blanket ban on Russians? If you work for a sanctioned company, then I'm sorry but you are out. Missed the chance to jump ship in the last twenty years of Putin turning Russia into a dictatorship? Well, I hope you like being sent to your death. Sad times, but let's not pretend that this is discrimination.
From what I saw in the executive order it wasn't limited to just sanctioned companies. Linus and other maintainers haven't come out with which specific sanction they're talking about so its just speculation
Banning contributions from sanctioned russian companies is not xenophobia. Pipe down.
Some of us are actually normal
Yeah, when I created my Lemmy account I had to choose an instance before knowing anything about Lemmy yet. And .ml seemed like the default one to choose, given https://join-lemmy.org/ told me it is ran by the devs.
Oh well.
Similar story here tbh.
I see you, hang in there buddy!
Doesn't help if the admins think you're not. Which is why I had to relocate a community because of admin content meddling and instance users shitstorming in a waterglass.
I love it here as well 😁
Ee is cool, but your upload limits were crap.
Fair, but most of the time, photos that I post won’t get any better with more pixels anyway 😂
I throw a lot of low effort memes, so I need all the help I can get.
Seriously, the hexbears just moved one over to keep getting exposure.
Yesterday I accidentally commented in .ml and mentioned that voting third party in our current voting system is playing with fire to get a worse candidate in office. I was told I must therefore start a grassroots movement for ranked choice voting, because apparently I can't have an opinion without a movement.
Normally I let a few downvotes get under my skin more than I care to admit, but in this setting it was kind of a badge of honor. Honestly it was kind of "fun" to see what people were saying.
I approve this comment.
improved my lemmy experience ten fold just blocking that instance.
I hope people do not do that and take into account this campaign against lemmy.ml. I am aware of the accusations against the admins of this instance, but I practically never see here this kind of brigading, campaigning against whole instances like lemmy.world. Sure, I myself did make a bad comment or two about lemmy.world out of >800 comments, but that's normal. I think the fair thing to do, is to respond in the same scale (i. e. blocking specific users) instead of going all ballistic with instance blocks.
I'd also like an option to just block/hide the instance part of user names. I don't like what this bit of information is doing to discussions in Lemmy.
it's not just random users, the mods of larger communities like [email protected] will delete your comments and ban you simply for disagreeing with them.
Cool. That's fine that you don't like it. However people have a right to not see what they don't want to see. If they decide that means it's lemmy.ml, then that's their right.
Just like I have a right to not peer with lemmy.ml if I didn't want to.
Hell I have a hard block on ALL Russian and Chinese IP addresses. Not because I have something against the people. But I just don't want to deal with the headache of accepting traffic from those countries.
Just because some (or even a majority) of the people on lemmy.ml are fine to interact with doesn't mean that there isn't contention from other users and admins on that instance.
I think we agree on everything. You do you.
You could also just move instances if you don't want to be blocked. Hexbear, and ML are hot spots for the worst kind of people.
I know I can. Being blocked is something I do not have any issues with. My comment was merely my point of view. If someone is being actively bothered by the admins of the instance I'm in, it's completely fair to block it. However, to block whole instances for ideological differences is kind of immature.
This is about open-source being open. I'm a very non-tankie, and I think this is bad- though a bit better if its only people working for sanctioned companies.
tell that to the mods of [email protected] who ban you for disagreeing with them.
Go look at the principles of open-source or free software as defined either by the OSI and the FSF and then come back when you find the one that says that Linus needs to violate US sanctions to keep employees of Russian companies in trusted roles within his project.
Also, what does this have to do with being tankie or not? Modern Russia is very openly not communist.
.ml is full of tankies. Also, nothing in open-source principles say that to my knowledge. Am I not allowed to have beliefs not explicitly defined by the OSI?
The OSI's definition of open-source software is the de facto definition used by most people, and for most of the remaining people that don't, they (mistakenly, because they define "free" software, not "open-source") defer to the FSF's defintion of free software.
So yes, you should be explicitly noting that what you define as "open" has nothing at all to do with the far-and-away most widely used definition(s) of "open-source".
Yes, and I said I want open-source to be open. As in not just open-source, but also open to all. That is my personal moral value, and I advocate for that. What the OSI supports has nothing to do with that.
I want a lot of things too, but what I want most of all is to live in a society governed by the rule of law. There are no absolute rights - limiting the freedoms of people who are complicit in crimes or enable them is how we protect the rights of everyone else. Simple as.