• Dogyote@slrpnk.net
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    21 hours ago

    Every time I see an anti-.ml meme I wonder, why are people so worried about people seeing .ml content? If they’re jerks, wouldn’t you want people to stumble into .ml and find out?

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      6 hours ago

      During the Reddit exodus, there were lots of complaints about left wing extremism. Most of them were landing on ml, grad or hexbear. This isn’t a good thing in the long run, so the bad press is necessary; otherwise this place risks being branded as “tankie HQ” before we can get some real traffic here.

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      15 hours ago

      Before I found out, I would have preferred to find out naturally. After I did stumble in and find out, I wished somebody had warned me.

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          3 hours ago

          Roughly in about the timeframe you would remove the pointy tree branch from prostate that’s making you such a condescending cunt. 😢 sorry if I don’t hold my breath

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      No one “worries” about seeing it. It’s that if you engage with anyone from, or anything posted in, a .ml, about any topic at all, you’ll eventually be hit with “capitalism causes all problems in the universe” or the rest of their standard “I’m 19 and this is deep” tankie talking points like some mandatory checklist of things they have to cram into every post or they get kicked out of the instance. It’s exhausting and pointless. No one runs around elsewhere in Lemmy making it a point to defend capitalism, so it’s just of a constant eye-roll when “I’m an independent thinker! Here’s the same thing we all say!” happens.

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      20 hours ago

      .ml is just the latest designated “tankie” instance. So far it’s the third one. Once .world defederates from .ml, the same people who currently hate .ml will designate another “tankie” instance to hate.

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        6 hours ago

        People designated .ml as a tankie instance for very good reason: the admins of .ml have repeatedly shown to be pro-authoritarian.

        For years now I’ve seen incessant gaslighting from tankies pretending that “tankie” is some catch-all term baselessly thrown around like “woke”. However, I’ve pretty much exclusively seen the term “tankie” used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships.

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          5 hours ago

          I don’t support authoritarian regimes, but I get called a tankie plenty by centrists who hate that I don’t support the authoritarian regime that their wing of the party sold weapons to.

          “Tankie” is just something the genocide wing calls people who disagree with their only policy.

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            5 hours ago

            ah, then my impressions are biased, since I haven’t heard that term outside of Lemmy.

            There’s pretty much only one person I know irl that calls themselves a “centrist”.

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        16 hours ago

        So .world is extremely anti free speech? Is there an easy way I can block all of .world from my feed then?

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          This guide is wrote up for those who have a hard time banning .ml and constantly removed about being able to see our content. It could be used to ban .world if you want i guess.


          Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

          In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.

          This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.

          This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click “Settings”.

          At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says “Blocks”.

          Here you will see “Block user” “Block community” and “Block instance”. Click the down arrow below “Block instance”.

          This will open up a search bar. Type “lemmy.ml” and click it after it shows up.

          That’s it! You’ve blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don’t need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!

          But wait, we aren’t done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under “Block user”. Now type “UltraGiGaGigantic” Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.

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          9 hours ago

          Interesting way of reasoning: “They are bad because they block stuff they don’t want to read, so I block them because what they do is stuff I don’t want to read.”

          Shouldn’t you be blocking yourself if you follow that way of reasoning?

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          Free speech means that you can speak your opinion freely without the state (country…) punishing you for it.

          Free speech doesn’t mean I have to listen to/read everything.

          And yes, you can block the whole of lemmy.world easily, if you want to.

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            15 hours ago

            Didn’t ask what you wish I meant by “free speech” or what you’re glad I don’t mean by it.

            Would thank you for answering what I asked if you didn’t waste my time answering (with fucked up wording) those 2 un-asked questions first

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          15 hours ago

          There’s a lot of users there who would very much prefer that no one to their left (and only their left) should be permitted to speak.

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            15 hours ago

            Your reply comes form there but will probably be the last post I see from there because I’m gonna go ahead and block the instance. Unless that still lets replies come through (fine with me, main feed is more my focus)