Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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[–] 9 points 8 months ago (101 children)

I jumped in .ml by random and it's crazy how had the hate is. If you find a good intance DM me sir.

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (41 children)

    It's weird, I hopped off ML due to how much hate other users were giving me, but I never actually experienced anything from the ML users themselves. I did stay off the politics subs, so that's maybe why, but it was genuinely quite a chill instance for me.

    Anyway I'm on UK now, and people seem to treat me nicer

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    It's similar in Lemmygrad.ml and Hexbear.net. Very chill usually, it's the hatred they get from liberal-aligned instances that sparks all of the drama.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (22 children)

    Early on I poked around ml, and it wasn't so much hate but more like some really... interesting views on how to organize politically

    It boiled down to "unite the workers of the world and seize the means of production", but like... That was it. No answer to how to do that, or what to do next

    The most annoying part was honestly just how hard some of them simp for China and Russia, sometimes even North Korea

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (20 children)

    Marxists absolutely have advice on how to organize, the problem is that it's very regional. Some parties are good, others are horrid, but the basics are to find a good organization local to you and join it. Protesting, reading theory, doing direct action and mutual aid, unionizing and striking, all are good ways to organize.

    None of us "simp" for the PRC or DPRK, and certainly not for the Russian Federation. We support socialist countries and critically support those working against the US empire.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    Yeah, I have to admit the anti-US sentiment did align nicely with my eurocentric views. But the pro-Russia and pro-China sentiment did not jell with me very well, and was a factor of why I left

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    There’s very little disagreement among .ml users because .ml is so heavily moderated. As an insider, it looks like calm waters all around you. But other instances easily see the dissent getting quashed, and only deal with the .ml users spouting insane comments on non-ml communities.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (31 children)

    ROFL, About 7 in 10 of my interactions with .ml are either positive or neutral

    The vocal side of hexbear is almost completely unhinged.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (30 children)

    Calling leftists "almost completely unhinged" is more of a self-tell than anything.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (17 children)

    I mean....they didn't call "leftist" unhinged, they specified a specific group.

    Hexbear does not equate to all leftist, and leftism does not equate to Hexbear.

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