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So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy's version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 9 months ago (25 children)

Block these instances: lemmy.ml lemmygrad.ml hexbear.net

There is no point arguing with tankies. They are dumb and they won't change. I just hope there will be a way to completely block those users including their comments. They are polluting the fediverse.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I just hope there will be a way to completely block [...] users including their comments.

Remember who the developers are.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Yeah. I hope kbin will grow and have a decent mobile app, then I can finally move over.

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lemmy.ml is a tankie instance that loves China and hates western countries. Unfortunately, it's also one of the biggest Lemmy instances because it's run by the main devs of Lemmy (who created Lemmy because they were frequently banned on other sites for bootlicking for China). Thankfully, Lemmy is open source and the nature of how it runs allows everyone to ignore the weird ideologies of the devs.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's one of the only 3 instances I block. All tankies bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago (5 children)

what are the other two?

I thought I was only blocking two but it seems I am blocking four

hexbear.net lemmy.ml alien.top lemmygrad.ml

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 9 months ago (10 children)

Hey fellow non-China Chinese. Just block lemmy.ml, lemmy grad.ml and hexbear for a much better lemmy experience.

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago

Apparently I make the great yellow peril.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (73 children)

It was [email protected] ... so yeah, almost anyone that say anything against China. It's a tankie instance.

Use [email protected] instead.

[–] Deceptichum 31 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's [email protected], the other one is a very inactive community.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (9 children)

For those of you asking/ curious, the reason given was 'yellow peril'. Really? I guess my being asian and directly affected by the Chinese activities in the scs makes me somehow a threat to yellow people?

[–] Socsa 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

Same. I literally have family in China and therefore a real stake in Chinese society. Meanwhile a bunch of western tankies who have never been to China and don't speak the language hand down bans merely for me relaying conversations I've actually had with real Chinese people in their native language about Chinese history and politics.

It's simple racism to infantilise all Chinese people like this, believing they need a bunch of white saviors on the Internet to speak for them and guard their cultural chastity.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 9 months ago (5 children)

thanks for the heads up. I just unjoined all lemmy.ml communities, and blocked the instance. That sort of censorship is not a good thing.

[–] Zipitydew 21 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Some of them came here from Reddit when chapo trap house got banned. Others are straight up BRICS propaganda accounts.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The .ml stands for Marxist /Leninist.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Funny, communists always insist China isn't communist at all, so why would they care about it being criticized?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Tankies aren't that type of communist, that is, sane. Tankies are auth rights disguised as leftists.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago

That's because the instance was ml. I regularly criticize them in world for their absurd actions.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 9 months ago (7 children)

just block the lemmy.ml instance and if you start to feel annoyed by the hexbear, block that one too. You will not notice any loss

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Fuck the Chinese government.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (6 children)

I ran into something similar a couple days ago:

I wrote a comment critical of Chinas actions in Africa, which was silently deleted after it got traction. When I looked at the mod log, my comment was not listed. Checked back on my comment, checked the mod log from another machine. Nothing.

Just silently and covertly removed without any trace of who and why. Has me really suspicious

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That tracks. China's (imperialist) abuse of Africa isn't the message they want out there. They frame it as win-win collaboration

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Tankies have occupied the post!

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Got banned after calling out russian propaganda for being just that. Literally happened on my first or second day on lemmy.

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