2026-10-23: This is a restructured v2 version of the original megathread and also to move it to my new main acc. The old archived thread is available here
Context on the meme image and explainer below, the megathread originally started as a celebratory post to people blocking/boycotting .ml so much that there started to be posts of people noticing that posts seemed to be upvoted much less then when posted elsewhere
Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling!
And for anyone asking "Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml?" Here's a quick recap:
Lemmy.ml is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it's off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!).
If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the "Tankie Triad" (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they've positioned lemmy.ml as the "flagship" instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them.
Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that "They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit"
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse "Voat 2.0".
So if you haven't joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse!
You can take a look around here on !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works for documentation of it or checkout this list of curated documentation
.ml Admins and Mods allowing known propaganda outlets, altered headlines and general misinfo tactics
https://lemmy.world/post/50784601
https://lemmy.world/post/32764202
https://lemmy.world/post/32323822
https://lemmy.world/post/32283425
https://lemmy.world/post/32289824
https://lemmy.world/post/32337368
https://lemmy.world/post/30843744
https://lemmy.world/post/28275465
https://lemmy.world/post/27428838
https://lemmy.world/post/27416097
https://lemmy.world/post/27314050
https://lemmy.world/post/27288953
Dessalines - Head .ml admin - Head Lemmy Dev
(Primary tankie ideology enforcer of .ml)
"Slava Ukraini" is considered a "Fascist slogan" - https://lemmy.world/post/36065538
Pushes Russian propaganda on Ukraine - https://lemmy.world/post/47078127
Authoritarianism isn't real - https://lemmy.world/post/36750689
"NK is actually good, and anything counter to that is Western LIES" - https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
Spreading genocide denialism - https://lemmy.world/post/47808886 | https://lemmy.world/post/49003962 | https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
"The BBC is not a credible news source" - https://lemmy.world/post/35824465
Removes "US State Funded Media" but Russian state propaganda sites are fully allowed - https://lemmy.world/post/32426343
Showing support for Ukraine on .ml is worthy of a site ban - https://lemmy.world/post/32775563
Open declaration of support for Russia - https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
Censoring criticism of China while allowing fellow "in-crowd" user "concentration camps were just reeducation camps and weren't that bad" misinfo to remain - https://lemmy.world/post/26985447
Censoring when users call out propaganda - https://lemmy.world/post/32776038 | https://lemmy.world/post/33416433 | https://lemmy.world/post/34051329 | https://lemmy.world/post/35919522
Discussing winnie the pooh and/or the negatives of china is a 30 day ban - https://lemmy.world/post/35374967
Documentation of censorship delivered by Dessalines
https://lemmy.world/post/47430642
https://lemmy.world/post/32720369
https://lemmy.world/post/38946127
https://lemmy.world/post/37412494
https://lemmy.world/post/37910997
https://lemmy.world/post/50665381
https://lemmy.world/post/49574842
https://lemmy.world/post/47726973
https://lemmy.world/post/36749839
https://lemmy.world/post/35919522
https://lemmy.world/post/29490804
https://lemmy.world/post/37910002
https://lemmy.world/post/50746674
https://lemmy.world/post/50138947
https://lemmy.world/post/46021893
https://lemmy.world/post/38761116
https://lemmy.world/post/49851706
https://lemmy.world/post/42766582
https://lemmy.world/post/37909337
https://lemmy.world/post/50139020
https://lemmy.world/post/36563629
https://lemmy.world/post/44120659
https://lemmy.world/post/32298242
https://lemmy.world/post/32298242
https://lemmy.world/post/31569892
https://lemmy.world/post/27378634
https://lemmy.world/post/34395059
https://lemmy.world/post/32471440
https://lemmy.world/post/27156418
https://lemmy.world/post/35919814
https://lemmy.world/post/32292143
https://lemmy.world/post/32292143
https://lemmy.world/post/32191006
https://lemmy.world/post/33554899
https://lemmy.world/post/32222856
https://lemmy.world/post/30665418
https://lemmy.world/post/27346630
https://lemmy.world/post/31329952
https://lemmy.world/post/31329952
https://lemmy.world/post/31090903
https://lemmy.world/post/32058315
https://lemmy.world/post/31368129
https://lemmy.world/post/31368129
https://lemmy.world/post/27054157
https://lemmy.world/post/32720652
https://lemmy.world/post/29507466
https://lemmy.world/post/35254858
https://lemmy.world/post/28481615
https://lemmy.world/post/29878102
https://lemmy.world/post/31596159
https://lemmy.world/post/27674360
https://lemmy.world/post/32223697
https://lemmy.world/post/32222278
https://lemmy.world/post/46108217
https://lemmy.world/post/32775892
https://lemmy.world/post/36120253
https://lemmy.world/post/32825174
https://lemmy.world/post/28482147
https://lemmy.world/post/33194656
https://lemmy.world/post/32221990
https://lemmy.world/post/34502019
https://lemmy.world/post/29980157
https://lemmy.world/post/27288224
https://lemmy.world/post/28480760
https://lemmy.world/post/32222991
https://lemmy.world/post/46230918
https://lemmy.world/post/36120386
https://lemmy.world/post/35919218
https://lemmy.world/post/46108226
https://lemmy.world/post/28482273
https://lemmy.world/post/34502777
https://lemmy.world/post/28481272
https://lemmy.world/post/32224698
https://lemmy.world/post/34503244
https://lemmy.world/post/28481064
https://lemmy.world/post/27673934
https://lemmy.world/post/28480936
https://lemmy.world/post/46108211
https://lemmy.world/post/37909742
https://lemmy.world/post/27341283
https://lemmy.world/post/27674117
https://lemmy.world/post/36750304
https://lemmy.world/post/46230928
https://lemmy.world/post/27673724
https://lemmy.world/post/32425984
https://lemmy.world/post/27008261
Davel - .ml admin
(Secondary tankie ideology enforcer of .ml)
Spreading anti-ukraine Russian propaganda - https://lemmy.world/post/48392030 | https://lemmy.world/post/34655572
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet - https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
Propagates Chinese propaganda that Taiwan isn't a country, its part of China - https://lemmy.world/post/41776158
"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" - https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
Genocide Denialism - https://lemmy.world/post/52778896
Response to a valid report of "NK is actually good" as propaganda/misinfo https://lemmy.world/post/32627834
Removal of a credible article that was on the Uyghur genocide - https://lemmy.world/post/33205310
It's totally fine when Russia kills woman and children, war is war after all - https://lemmy.world/post/33224299
Documentation of censorship delivered by Davel
https://lemmy.world/post/27577337
https://lemmy.world/post/39031078
https://lemmy.world/post/40066575
https://lemmy.world/post/32426884
https://lemmy.world/post/45740474
https://lemmy.world/post/53211964
https://lemmy.world/post/30876228
https://lemmy.world/post/44834761
https://lemmy.world/post/32676095
Nutomic - 2nd in command Lemmy Dev
(Nutomic doesn't do a whole lot of enforcement)
Their initial transphobic statement - https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
Their continued transphobia when given the opportunity to retract their previous statements - https://lemmy.world/post/29222558
Cypherpunks - 3rd .ml tankie admin
(Cypherpunks does some enforcement, but usually just keeps legit spam in check)
Supports Russian propaganda outlets like Sputnik - https://lemmy.world/post/40248324
General Tankie user behaviour
"lemmy.ml is run by Communists and Communists critically support Russia" ~Cowbee prominent .ml tankie - https://lemmy.world/post/49107777
"Taiwan is a dictatorship, South korea is occupied land by the US, Ukraine is a puppet state" ~Prominent tankie mod of lemmy.ml memes (ghost_laptop) - https://lemmy.world/post/52315729
People of Ukraine are just "waiting for [Russian] liberation" ~Cowbee, prominent .ml tankie - https://lemmy.world/post/53172386
Angry memes because people call out Russian propaganda as demonstrated by prominent tankie @hamid@crazypeople.online (Former admin @hamid@vegantheoryclub.org, instance that was on track to be the fourth Tankie instance of the Tankie triad before hamid shut it down because people were calling it out last year) - https://lemmy.world/post/49479941
Double standard of memes celebrating Ukraine losing are permitted when memes of the opposite would be removed - https://lemmy.world/post/39124833
Intentional conflation of "communism" and "tankie" terms to push the tankie narrative that they're "the only true leftists" as demonstrated by Cowbee, prominent .ml tankie - https://lemmy.world/post/49237006
"There was never a massacre in Tiananmen Square, just around it! So it's just propaganda" ~Cowbee, prominent .ml tankie - https://lemmy.world/post/49236994
Pushing of anti-voting narratives/blueMAGA by prominent .ml tankie jankforlife - https://lemmy.world/post/49198296
"Trump isn't a Russian asset" Cowbee, prominent Lemmy.ml tankie - https://lemmy.world/post/49761200
"Propaganda is good actually" - https://lemmy.world/post/36162233
"The China censorship tool isnt actually censorship! And if it is, it's actually a good thing a state has that much power!" https://lemmy.world/post/30010789
Rooting for Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war https://lemmy.world/post/29274763
Spreading Russia talking points like the Ukraine invasion just being a "negotiating tactic" https://lemmy.world/post/27012640
Biden is worse than Trump - https://lemmy.world/post/33631617
Uyghur Genocide denialism - https://lemmy.world/post/33873969
Why am I cross-posting .ml content? And account listing used for it
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to help vitilize non-.ml comms and make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some active niche comms.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
cm0002 account listing used for crossposting
Here I'll list all the accounts that I use for this crossposting or hybrid organic/cross-posting.
@cm0002@suppo.fi
@cm0002@infosec.pub
@cm0002@mander.xyz
@cm0002@libretechni.ca
@cm0002@digipres.cafe
@cm0002@literature.cafe
@cm0002@toast.ooo
@cm0002@ttrpg.network
@cm0002@europe.pub
@cm0002@no.lastname.nz
@cm0002@lemmings.world
@cm0002@futurology.today
@cm0002@lemdro.id
@cm0002@lemy.lol Removed from rotation, now posting only organically sourced or OC content
@cm0002@ani.social
The following posts need to be fixed as piefed.social seems to not have any MWoG posts beyond 5 months ago, but preserved here for later
https://lemmy.world/post/36516279
https://lemmy.world/post/36974637
Update 10/23/2026 - Start of v2 Megathread
