Every time a ml/hexbear community that I might be interested in pops up on my feed, I block it, then manually search for a non-tankie version of the same thing and immediately subscribe. The amount of pro-authoritarian content I've been exposed to has dramatically dropped.

In a recent discussion in the Matrix chat, it was mentioned that donations to support development have recently fallen off quite steeply. I mentioned my reason for not donating anymore is because I can't support anyone who runs an instance like .ml. @[email protected] said I could donate directly to him since he doesn't do as much moderation over there, but also mentioned that donations for development go towards server costs for .ml. Hell no.

cause nobody wants to get dragged into a ten page discussion about why China and Russia are the most democratic countries in the world

I got banned to 40 days from .ml memes for arguing that the republicans were worse than the democrats or something mild like that.

I actually like seeing their posts on my main account. It allows me to keep up with their lingua franca, so I can more easily identify their alts on normal instances, so I know not to attempt to engage in good faith.

Lemmy .ml is partly why I switched to an instance which defederates them. The admin and mod behavior over there is gross. If it weren't run by the Lemmy devs it would be widely blocked.

I joined Lemmy in November. By New Years I had independently figured out what was wrong with .ml and its users.

The less of that garbage, the better.

Lemmy.ml seems to just downvote different opinions in masse without responding with respect.

After a few attempts to engage respectfully and just getting negative interactions I just blocked them entirely.

You know, the differing opinion isn't so bad. It's that they're such pricks.

I tried to tolerate .ml because they've got some good linux and foss focused communities. Ultimately I decided it wasn't worth it.

I'm lucky to not have been too exposed to most of their tankie apologetics for authoritarians, but I did notice a pretty staggering number of them were under the impression that Trump and Harris were literally identical.

And no, I don't mean in the "the democrats are center right and often vote similarly to republicans on many issues" 'identical' view, I mean "They both do an equally bad amount of things, just in different areas, and neither is worse than the other" 💀

Yeah, blocked hexbear too.

Those people are absolutely fucking unhinged and do not engage in any sort of good faith argument.

After one round, I got name called, after round two asking for clarification, I just left.

Time is precious, the squirrels in my yard are more coherent than these chucklefucks.

Hell, even two crows would be better

could you pls put the exclamation marks on the links to those posts in the same way you did for [email protected] ?

thanks for this concise list of stuff .ml has done btw

I wish feddit.org blocked lemmy.ml. I keep getting vitriol and queerphobia from their users.

so thats why ive been seeing so much communist propaganda lately

I appreciate this. Id been gone from Lemmy for a bit but just unsubbed from all the .ml groups I had.

I was against blocking them because i dont want to create an echochamber(and i still support this on an instance level) but after they banned me and just keep downvote bombing anyone whos not a fucking poo tin or whinnie boot licker i had to block them.

"Known propaganda outlets (like RT)"

Sorry but... What's RT mean in this context? Rooster Teeth? I've got no clue.

I'm kinda still new here, so thanks for the info! I think I've figured out how to block the instance, but is there a guide on blocking or something or a way to check?