• tetris11@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    Not all of us are happy with it. The Pro-Russia, pro-China posts are enough to make me raise an eyebrow and keep my mouth shut when a mod comes around.

    But… it’s genuinely one of the better moderated instances. It is quite peaceful compared to other communities. I dont see lemmygrad, I dont see beehaw, it’s just, restful

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      1 day ago

      That’s why I like my instance, the admins are great and we have the same mindset of federation: let the users decide who they want to block and only defederate from a instance if they’re hugely problematic or doing something illegal.

      I think lemmy.ml is federated with lemmygrad right? I never see their stuff either, it’s probably such a small instance that it kinda gets lost from the activity of the bigger and more popular communities.

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        1 day ago

        Yeah on second glance, it is federated with lemmygrad, but I somehow don’t see the posts from there. Apparently, I’ve only blocked one sub from there “GenZedong”, but that seems to be enough for me to not see any of their stuff at a ll.

        I am currently slowly migrating towards another instance, but I genuinely do feel comfortable on lemmy.ml

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          2 hours ago

          You are not the first person I’ve heard this from. Ironically the people who avoid anything even resembling a political topic can have quite the calm experience there, in the other communities.

          However, it’s still supporting that behavior, and there’s also the “first they came for” mantra, which suggests that even though they haven’t banned you from the entire instance yet, it may still lead to a shocking surprise when they eat your face off later rather than sooner.

          But yes there are many other instances to choose from:-). Like feddit.org for a location-based instance for someone in Europe, or Discuss.Online for someone based in the USA, or themed instances such as programming.dev or literature.cafe, etc.

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            34 minutes ago

            Not sure what to expect with the “eating my face off” part, but I can always just migrate away

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              16 minutes ago

              Oh I just meant that you might be surprised by being banned yourself - being there now, even if they have not come for you yet, doesn’t mean that they won’t in the future. Sorry, I suppose the eating leopards was misleading bc it could be interpreted so as to imply that you wanted some of those aspects, but I did not mean to imply that you did.

              An example story of someone being banned there who found that fact surprising - in this case they were even told to kill themselves by a lemmy.ml mod, who said that he wanted to shoot the OP, but it was OP’s comments that were removed, not the mod who advocated for violence against him.

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        1 day ago

        I have accounts on other instances, but lemmy.ml is genuinely quite peaceful. I find myself always coming back to it.

        There’s a distinct lack of general abuse there, and people seem to restrain themselves from needless insults