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3d ago

Dessalines, .ml admin, head Lemmy dev: "Did you just say fuck Russian state media comrade‽ How dare you call out our propaganda! That's a BAN!"

Source https://lemmy.world/comment/18638379

Modlog https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?user=1277050

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Just block their instance, and report any .ml that is perpetuating tankies on other communities
- While good for an individual users' sanity, it doesn't really solve the problem and is holding back wider uptake and harming the Threadiverses reputation
I'm amazed they set a timeout for the bans.
also, is it just me, or is that bubblybubbles user the latest iteration of the full-time tankie propagandist? 6 days old account. there were at least 2 previous accounts that were nonstop churning news and memes of the tankie worldview, the later one being jackeroni, and this one seems to be milder than both of those.
- Tankies use .ml as spaces for their alt accounts, most of them are organised across discord and matrix.
I love this thread and comments are possible with Lemmy, even contrasting the uproar the Lemmy devs itself make without affecting code.
This is exactly how exactly things like these work. Awesome.
get back to work dessalines
Don't counter their propaganda in their communities, just leave them to their delusions.
- There's pros and cons to it, on the one hand is your point to just leave them to their delusions. And for instances like hex and Grad, I fully agree with you.
  Unfortunately, .ml is in a special place as few instances want to widely defed from them for fear of backlash from the devs and losing support from them (which is a fair point, I can totally see dessalines being that petty)
  So having people counter their propaganda is more for newer users to see that there is push back on their crap and less about getting tankies to change their views
  
  Not to mention there are still many highly active non-political communities on ML.
  ML admins/mods acting like the goons that they are is a good incentive for such communities to move off ML.
- we are at war with russia, we should defederate from instances that support russian, anti-west propoganda, unquestioningly
  they do not even allow open discussion and have not done for a long time
  time for .world to disconnect from the fetid twisted pupa
- The thing is...originally (in June 2023) .ml felt like a normal instance, which gradually became hopeless. Now I feel like they are starting to spill into some .world communities. I hope lemmy is not going to be eaten up by tankies as it gets more popular and pushes out non-normie sane people.
  
  I just block any user with .ml, if I see them astroturfing, maybe I should report them?
  
  Oh, I really meant on their communities, as in leave the .ml alone. But when they spread their bullshit in communities on other servers, counter it if course.
- Its a different instance

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