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What's going on with the lemmy world and ML infighting (lemmy.world)

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I've seen several references to some sort of rift between the users of these instances today. What's happening?

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 points 3 days ago

My only issue with .ml that it’s pretty much lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net in disguise. They are simply not being honest about who the instance is for.

Don’t misunderstand. I don’t have anything against any of them, but they should really just be honest who lemmy.ml is for. Just like lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net is.

Lemmygrad.ml first rule is: No capitalist apologia / anti-communism.

This is pretty much a hidden rule on Lemmy.ml.

I remember a long time ago when Nutomic was hosting peertube.social. There, the rules was very honest and you knew what you signed up for in the instance. So why not just do that now as well?

Hint: look at Dessalines modlog

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago

I don't actually disagree with making it clear that Lemmy.ml is communist-friendly.

[-] FunkyStuff@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

The whole thing where you gotta copy a sentence from Principles of Communism to join makes it pretty clear, but yeah maybe it ought to be signposted more. It seems like lemmy.ml isn't really the "default" lemmy instance anymore, so IMHO it would come at little cost to be transparent about its ideological tilt.

Disclaimer: this is my alt account and I'm not really a .ml user, I don't want to come across as an authority on this matter

[-] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I agree that for users it's pretty obvious because of that, but for those not on .ml it can seem a bit jarring. There's a split identity between the de jure "FOSS/Privacy" focus .ml is supposed to be for, and the de facto "widely federated communist instance."

[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 3 days ago

I guess that's a start.

[-] cm0002@mander.xyz 1 points 3 days ago

Hint: look at Dessalines modlog

or the megathread

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