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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Same. I really wanted to be around other leftists but holy fuck the vast majority of them need serious help.

[–] loaf 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My first account was on .ml, and it took me about half an hour to get completely jumped by a bunch of Stalinists. Ended up deleting my account, and was hesitant to create a new one.

Thankfully, it seems to be two instances, and I’ve blocked them both. My experience after that has been great.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Three instances. ML, Lemmygrad, and Hexbear

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

I haven't seen the actual Lemmygrad in my feed in a year, even on this sub.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Lemmygrab gets defederated a lot, your instance admin probably decided they aren't worth it and blocked them entirely.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait, is ml supposed to be left leaning? 😂

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

That's kinda the definition of tankies no? Being so pro Soviet/china that you become what you were supposed to hate, an imperialist

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Being in favour of authoritarian regimes does not make one a leftist

[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

No, but why do you reply that to my message? Seems wholly irrelevant

Why is online discourse so cancerous. Idiot above me puts words in my mouth and gets upvoted and I got downvoted. I never called them leftists, learn to fucking read.

[–] imaqtpie 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They leaned so far to the left they ended up doing a headstand