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Hate-Speech — You should be familiar with this one already; practically all instances have the same rules on hate speech.

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Source: https://lemmy.world/post/27339034/15990169

Modlog: https://lemmy.world/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&modId=26&userId=13244102

It's quite clear that the admins and mods of .ml will not take care of blatant propaganda as long as it aligns with their tankie "ideology" and will happily censor any dissent

Join the lemmy.ml boycott today! No posts, comments or upvotes on any comms on the lemmy.ml instance!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a mechanism to block all off lemmy.ml, as an individual user, if that were something I wanted to do?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

There is an instance block, accessible from the web UI at /settings (so for you should be startrek.website/settings) blocks tab

But the big issue with it, is that in it's current implementation it's more of a mute rather than a block

You won't see their content, but they can see...and interact with...yours. So if you make a comment justifiably shitting on Putin or something, they can downvote brigade you, make replies you can't see to shit talk you etc

[–] prettybunnys 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So they don’t have numbered rules, unless I’m missing something.

They have a list of 4 items, comma separated.

The first item is:

Please only post links to actual news sources

Anyways, just avoid .ml, simple as

[–] [email protected] 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Whenever you see Rule 1 (no bigotry) or Rule 2 (be respectful) in the modlog those are almost always the .ml instance rules, because the one removing content and issuing bans is almost always an admin (dessalines, davel or cypherpunk).

That being said, it's hilarious that that comm has the "only actual news sources" rule because a lot of the propaganda there is coming from shit like substack, blogspot.com and rumble.com LMFAO

[–] Tomassci 4 points 13 hours ago

Ah yes, Rumble. The famous left-wing platform.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Homie don't let homie visit lemmy.ml

[–] Justas 6 points 23 hours ago

Normal person vs. tankies in a nutshell.