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[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Damn, a ban just for posting an article. Dude seems like all the criticism is slowly getting to him.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

I saw an .ml user argue that North Korea and South Korea were basically equivalent.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

Well that's unusual, usually they argue that the South Korean government are "occupiers" LMAO

[-] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Currently, there are still large communities on lemmy.ml. Contact their moderators and tell ask them to move to another instance and/or merge with other existing communities!

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

The users are who need to move. A bunch of those mods actively ban users who call out tankie bullshit there. The whole damn instance needs to be defederated.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Not just that. People should switch from lemmy to one of the alternatives (mbin, piefed) entirely. Dessalines is still main lemmy dev after all and that's not going to change...

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

I have zero issues with one of the main devs being a tankie, provided the code is good. It turns out political opinions tend to not impact code quality.

However, I'm unlikely to donate more than code provided he gets most of it, because I don't want to financially support someone who actively supports misinformation.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

My beef with Dessalines is 10% his politics, and 90% that he's a power hungry asshole who uses development donations and pays himself to mod and occasionally make a commit. My beef Nutomic is that he's a transphobe and a liar.

Putting up with these clowns was one thing when there were no good alternatives, but now piefed is better than Lemmy in a bunch of ways.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe I'll check it out. I dislike a number of things about Lemmy, but it's been acceptably decent so I haven't looked around much. I've been working on my own Reddit clone, so I've always had a short term mentality about it.

But yeah, if the two main devs didn't have mod positions, I'd be happier.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I was about to point that out, but it looks like the mod that banned me for pointing out negative things about Russia is no longer a mod.

I've unsubbed from most communities there and things are much better now

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

Subscriber count is essentially a worthless metric on Lemmy, it's overinflated because of dead accounts. The older an instance and it's comms, the worse it is. .ml being the original most of it comms are old and way overinflated by dead accounts.

For example [email protected] has something like 55k subscribers, but the entire Threadiverse only has ~50k monthly active accounts.

MAUs is a much better metric to go by, and by that standard there are only 2 main comms that haven't been dethroned by a non-.ml alternative yet [email protected] and [email protected]

But [email protected] is getting there!

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

oh are we the threadiverse?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yea, the Threadiverse refers to all of the federated "Reddit-like" link aggregation social media, so it includes Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed and Sublinks (if it ever comes out)

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Fully agree. I sorted lemmy.ml communities by MAU and listed a few from the top

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Oh man, check it out with all the instances on if you want a little smile, .ml comms have fallen hard lol. Memes used to hover around rank 13, now it's like 30 lmao

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

An American is taking care of the Russian community and defending it from CIA propaganda, that's so anti-imperialist. I'm sure Russians are thankful ๐Ÿ™

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Is the "big D" actually an American? I haven't really tried to look up any history on the dude.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Yes. He mentioned it in his reddit comments, but even if you don't go out looking for it, there are various indicators - language (exclusively English), the fact lemmy.ml is registered from a US address, the fact that all of his discourse is heavily US-centric.

Frankly, only an American can be this obsessed with CIA.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Frankly, only an American can be this obsessed with CIA.

The first paragraph seemed very subjective. The last sentence sold me.

However, I dug a little bit into Kremlin propaganda about CIA propaganda, and whooo boy! It starts to get interesting really quick: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000402720002-8.pdf

(That link could be CIA propaganda about Kremlin propaganda that's about CIA propaganda..... How deep does this go? Every time "propaganda" is discovered, they just add another layer, it seems.)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

seemed very subjective

Him literally saying it is subjective? Operating from a US address is subjective? His language (including his natural American pronunciation that you can hear in his audiobooks) and the language of all of his sources is subjective?

And yeah, sorry chief, CIA saying that people saying bad stuff about CIA is SSSR propaganda is a bit too much even for me. I'll go ahead and say it - suggesting that a tankie, despite the actual evidence in his online activity, has simply got to be a non-American because clearly he just hates USA too much, is a very American-brained and Red-Scare-ish idea.

I've no problem with you being skeptical, but consider the actual examples:

What's messed up, is that my US cell carrier, recently told me that my currently working 4g Xiaomi phone "won't be supported" in like 3 months. They aren't even turning off 4g, its just I suspect they're trying to find ways to make sure chinese phones aren't usable in the US.

They can really arrest all of us. Police and prison budgets have been skyrocketing for 30+ years, its the biggest item in most city and state budgets.

Leaf through his other comments as well, let me know what's your impression.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

He has audiobooks? For reals? OMFG.

The points you originally called out weren't really much to say he was from the US. The additional information you gave was enough to convince me though. Thanks for that!

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He has audiobooks? For reals? OMFG.

He reads/records other people's books and puts it on his YT channel that's linked on his profile, it's not his own writing.

I guess I should've posted the reddit comments earlier on in the comment chain.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago

Whelp. I did catch a clip of is voice on the YouTubes and yeah, I do agree even more he is based in the US.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Spiderman meme

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I think someone managed to figure out he was in belarus or something

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Time to look into PieFed

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