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Right of passage I suppose

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I recently made the decision to unsubscribe from the vast majority of ML communities I was in. They've been getting a lot more obnoxious as of late, both in terms of the normal users as well as the mods getting more heavy-handed.

Honestly, I recommend everybody consider it for themselves, as well. If you have communities hosted on ML, it might be a good idea to start migrating elsewhere, because I see them quickly becoming defederated from a lot of instances soon with the way they're progressing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Same. I’m “boycotting” lemmy.ml if you will. Not contributing a single, comment, upvote, or subsciber count, to posts and communities on an instance that supports Russian and Chinese imperialism.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I defederated my instance outright. I got fed up after (yet another) smug person from .ml, this time insisting "the only way to respect Palestinians in the upcoming election is to not vote for either candidate."

I'm losing patience for smug people in general.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

They've been getting a lot more obnoxious as of late

That's right on schedule. There is a toxic mob that struggles to exist together (because they alienate themselves every time in a matter of weeks). They started on Reddit, originally collecting in chapostraphouse and got their community banned and each subsequent iteration has seen the same fate.

Then the fediverse was born and they began to self host. Now they couldn't be banned. There was lemmygrad, then hexbear and .ml. Checkmate, right?

When more serious and honest hosts saw the pattern many enabled instance-blocking so we could eliminate the source as end users.

Most genuine folks I interact with have blocked lemmygrad and hexbear. The toxic cloud of chuds knows this and have been moving into .ml sublemmy and dispersing into smaller and smaller communities to evade being blocked by users.

It's all quite interesting and funny if I'm being honest.

I wish I had a sociology degree, I'd publish so many fkn papers.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I don't want to moderate a bunch of new communities though

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It’s rite of passage, not right! Rite is cognate with ritual, both related to the practice of religious ceremonies.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

You are rite

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Welcome back to the real world

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I blocked ML instance pretty quickly on my account. Heavy handed but probably for the best

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

Why would you say that when anyone can check the modlog and see it isn’t the case? You were banned from one community for one month.

ETA: Oh, sorry: two communities for one month, which happened two weeks apart.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago

And yet, nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Getting banned there is a right of passage in the Fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Russia is bad for privacy

banned

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally told "Ivan " that he gets paid in engagement and up votes to afford decent vodka and boom banned

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Don't worry OP I self banned from there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

You are fre, now join us in calling Dessalines an edgy cringe lord!

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