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Right of passage I suppose

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[–] Chozo@fedia.io 32 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I recently made the decision to unsubscribe from the vast majority of ML communities I was in. They've been getting a lot more obnoxious as of late, both in terms of the normal users as well as the mods getting more heavy-handed.

Honestly, I recommend everybody consider it for themselves, as well. If you have communities hosted on ML, it might be a good idea to start migrating elsewhere, because I see them quickly becoming defederated from a lot of instances soon with the way they're progressing.

Same. I’m “boycotting” lemmy.ml if you will. Not contributing a single, comment, upvote, or subsciber count, to posts and communities on an instance that supports Russian and Chinese imperialism.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I defederated my instance outright. I got fed up after (yet another) smug person from .ml, this time insisting "the only way to respect Palestinians in the upcoming election is to not vote for either candidate."

I'm losing patience for smug people in general.

[–] archonet@lemy.lol 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just had someone from .ml that was so stupid and shortsighted that they think handing the election to Trump will lead to less genocide, not more. It is genuinely hard to tell sometimes whether they're actual fifth columnists or just rabidly, genuinely fucking stupid; but either way, very funny to poke with a stick from time to time.

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It might have been the same person. Given the strong favoritism to the CCP expressed by the instance operators, I'm not entirely unconvinced that such messaging isn't intentional manipulation as part of the CCP's election interference campaign (which from what I've seen favors Trump).

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[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They've been getting a lot more obnoxious as of late

That's right on schedule. There is a toxic mob that struggles to exist together (because they alienate themselves every time in a matter of weeks). They started on Reddit, originally collecting in chapostraphouse and got their community banned and each subsequent iteration has seen the same fate.

Then the fediverse was born and they began to self host. Now they couldn't be banned. There was lemmygrad, then hexbear and .ml. Checkmate, right?

When more serious and honest hosts saw the pattern many enabled instance-blocking so we could eliminate the source as end users.

Most genuine folks I interact with have blocked lemmygrad and hexbear. The toxic cloud of chuds knows this and have been moving into .ml sublemmy and dispersing into smaller and smaller communities to evade being blocked by users.

It's all quite interesting and funny if I'm being honest.

I wish I had a sociology degree, I'd publish so many fkn papers.

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[–] chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It’s rite of passage, not right! Rite is cognate with ritual, both related to the practice of religious ceremonies.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago

You are rite

[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 1 week ago

Welcome back to the real world

[–] truxnell@infosec.pub 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I blocked ML instance pretty quickly on my account. Heavy handed but probably for the best

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 children)

Why would you say that when anyone can check the modlog and see it isn’t the case? You were banned from one community for one month.

ETA: Oh, sorry: two communities for one month, which happened two weeks apart.

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[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

And yet, nothing of value was lost.

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