Saw a post saying some shitty Christian lemmy instance was spamming bullshit on one of their latest posts, I said something along the lines of “probably Russians”. Come to find out my comment was removed and I was banned… then to find out they effectively have a CCP agent running town… lol.

I’ve seen people mention they were a garbage instance, now I know why! They said I broke rule 1 … this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

Glad they did the work for me and made it easy to avoid them.

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[–] 74 points 1 day ago (2 children)
  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Getting a ban from lemmy.ml is a badge of honour that many like to collect.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 day ago*

    Cochrun_xyz wasn't even the largest spammer. rabotaem_app was, and if you go there (I'd suggest not), it is a Russian language Lemmy site...

    The site they were spamming for is based in China.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 day ago (10 children)

    I mean, what do you expect from an explicitly (m)arxist-(l)eninist instance. Their entire religion is "west bad, russia and china literally the best" and censoring any wrongthink. And yet there you are implying Russia is behind a bad thing. Of course they'd take action against you.

    Imo fediverse projects really need to federate instance rules. Just include them in the instance actor (if they aren't already) like you'd do with a community, then use them if available.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 day ago* (3 children)

    Fwiw, one can be a Marxist Leninist and think Russia's government sucks. It is anything but Marxist or Leninist.

    I know you didn't mean that, but figured it needed to be said.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    honestly I think memorizing TLDs for Geoguessr a few years ago made me think Malaysia before i ever considered .ml to stand for marxist leninist lmao

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    It’s Mali’s TLD, they just like that it lines up with Marxist-Leninist

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Fuck now you’re telling me I mixed up Malaysia and Mali?! Just put me out of misery now

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  • [–] 19 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    what? The good folks at Lemmy.ml didn't like you talking down about a dictator?

    Wild!

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Lol what’s especially frustrating is the fact that I didn’t even! Literally just made the broad assumption that it was of Russian origin.

    It’s the digital equivalent of seeing a foreign bomber plane and being like hmm probably the US because we love bombing people. Like yeah you might be wrong… but you’re probably right depending in where you’re physically located!

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago

    Lemmy.ml and even more so lemmygrad.ml (the latter is defederated from by most sane instances across the Threadiverse) are tankie platforms. Tankies believe in alternative facts, such as the fact that nobody died in the Tiannamen Square Massacre. Or if they did then they deserved it. Or if they did not then it was necessary. Or if it wasn't then... - I am saying that you should expect arguments to shift goals moment to moment, based on the personal biases and need to appear right on the Internet, regardless of any need to actually be thus.

    And don't even get me started on hexbear.net, which has no real beliefs at all beyond the raw need to troll people incessantly (this one is also defederated from by nearly all sane instances across the Threadiverse).

    So, you are missing out on nothing important whatsoever. Consider yourself fortunate that you discovered this early on.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (2 children)

    The usa is the worlds largest arms dealer by a very long way, probably also the biggest spammers, and manipulators.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 day ago

    Russia is worse in every regard and their complete lack of government is quite literally the exact blueprint being used to fuel rightwing extremist media in just about every major country (but hell, they’re literally doing it in just about EVERY country).

    They don’t have as many weapons, but who needs that when you can just install your own president over the Americans who pick to be couped?

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  • [–] 22 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    That’s because they’re actually propagandists for those authoritarian governments pretending to be communist. They’re about as communist as the Nazis were socialist.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (15 children)

    Their rules are on their front page.

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    Edit: OP said this:

    this might just be the app I’m using but they don’t even have any fucking rules to look at lmao.

    I'm literally just responding to it. Thanks for the downvotes 🤡

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago

    I did not downvote you myself, but at a guess perhaps it's the fact that not everyone uses a browser. Voyager in particular is very popular and I seems to go out of its way to hide that even - like you can click on "Sidebar" to view the community rules, but I have not seen how to be able to read the instance ones.

    Voyager also by default hides the instance names after people's accounts. Every community on every instance is presented as if it were the same as all others. By that logic then, we are all the same space (with no distinction provided) as Lemmy.ml - the entire Threadiverse is very much is a tankie bar.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Strange that it doesn’t show for me when I check, must be a mobile issue of some kind.

    Still laughable though, TIL it’s bigoted to suggest the #1 perpetrators of digital warfare are probably committing more digital warfare.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    Yeah why are you getting dumped on??? Insane

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Prior to the edit people probably thought they were trying to be snarky about the rules inatead of their intent to show the rules are displayed despite the OP not seeing them.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (1 child)

    OP was clear about wondering if it was the app they were using.

    This comment made no clarification whether they used the same app or got this from a browser.

    Then closed with a clown emoji.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago*

    They were providing the rules the OP clearly said they couldn't see in the app.

    The clown was part of the edit and directed at the people downvoting them for providing the rules the OP couldn't find and where they were located.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Bigotry towards russians? Lmao

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  • [–] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Well they were talking about the instance (probably wrong) rather than the bot accounts (possible).

    Also, is a 2 day ban really worthy of an indignant post like this?

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 day ago

    Wasn’t worthy of a post, yet it’s worthy to look at and comment on? Lol.

    Genuine discussion is good, which is exactly why I view banning people for saying things as minor as what I said as insane. I’m not just blanket statement assuming all Russians are bad.

    Didn’t see it was two days, may as well be a lifetime ban though now that I know the mods ban for effectively just mentioning other countries. It’s bizarre.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    One can take this lightly (I usually do), but in reality these people are a danger to the entire fediverse.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, a couple of them are lead devs for Lemmy :/

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  • [–] 11 points 1 day ago

    Yeah, it's an embarrassing shit stain that .ml is the "main" instance. Every other instance admin is forced to play nice if they want a place to get support, which sucks. Lemmy needs to be forked hard, but those devs are sucking in funding from about a half-dozen or more sources, so they have more incentive than most to do the foot work.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    I recommend joining an instance that blocks lemmy.ml

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  • [–] [M] 2 points 1 day ago*

    This community is not for complaining about bans or mod action on other instances.

    Locked.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    Ну вы че ожидали? Они там то постоянно так поступают. Я предвижу что все у вас лучше станет немедленно.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    I don’t know Cyrillic but assuming google translate got this translated right: I was honestly more shocked that they popped me so quick, if anything.

    Usually, they at least try and put up a facade of freedom of speech. To get the psychological walls down and all that, you know?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    YDI. Casual russophobia, imperial bootlicking, lazy liberal disinfo, etc. are not wanted by reasonable people.

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  • [–] -5 points 1 day ago* (2 children)

    I was banned from some community because of "nazi apologia", lol. I only realized this months later when checking the modlog for unrelated reasons.

    Honestly... totally on-brand for me, I'm a big nazi simp. I'll take every opportunity to glaze Himmler & the boys, fondly reminisce of WWII atrocities, and debate whether we should have included the bavarians in the shoah.

    What can I say, that's on me

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    I’m a big nazi simp. I’ll take every opportunity to glaze Himmler & the boys, fondly reminisce of WWII atrocities, and debate whether we should have included the bavarians in the shoah.

    Found the nazi!

    ;-)

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  • [–] 0 points 1 day ago

    Klik was Russian. Spam was Lithuanian, I think. We don't talk about Spork at all. /s

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  • [+] -18 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    You sound like a mcmurican

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 day ago (4 children)
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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    You sound like a tankie.

    There, now we're even.

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  • [–] -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

    OP: Openly anti-Russian

    Me: Does the same thing to point it out aka reality check.

    You: Derps tears all over the place.

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