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    Every time I see an anti-.ml meme I wonder, why are people so worried about people seeing .ml content? If they’re jerks, wouldn’t you want people to stumble into .ml and find out?

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      Before I found out, I would have preferred to find out naturally. After I did stumble in and find out, I wished somebody had warned me.

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          Roughly in about the timeframe you would remove the pointy tree branch from prostate that’s making you such a condescending cunt. 😢 sorry if I don’t hold my breath

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      My conspiracy is that people are trying to ramp up enough of a campaign to defederate from .ml, not knowing it’s history on Lemmy and how most .ml users are actually quite chill and actually genuine people once you get to know them. I mean Jesus Christ guys, .ml users arent all bots.

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      Certain people just like echo chambers and can’t see the value of opposing beliefs or arguments, no matter the level of sense that those may or not make.

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      .ml is just the latest designated “tankie” instance. So far it’s the third one. Once .world defederates from .ml, the same people who currently hate .ml will designate another “tankie” instance to hate.

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        So .world is extremely anti free speech? Is there an easy way I can block all of .world from my feed then?

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          This guide is wrote up for those who have a hard time banning .ml and constantly removed about being able to see our content. It could be used to ban .world if you want i guess.


          Welcome to a tutorial on how to block .ml on your personal account.

          In the top right corner of the top of the page, there are 3 horizontal white bars. Click it.

          This will open up a drop down menu. At the bottom of that menu, you will see your username. Click it.

          This will open another drop down menu with 3 options. Click “Settings”.

          At the top of your screen you will see 2 tabs. Click the one that says “Blocks”.

          Here you will see “Block user” “Block community” and “Block instance”. Click the down arrow below “Block instance”.

          This will open up a search bar. Type “lemmy.ml” and click it after it shows up.

          That’s it! You’ve blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don’t need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!

          But wait, we aren’t done yet in this menu. Click the down arrow under “Block user”. Now type “UltraGiGaGigantic” Make sure you select my .ml account as the other ones I no longer use. Thanks, appreciate it.

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            That’s it! You’ve blocked .ml and will never see content from the instance. Now you don’t need to make a feud post every day complaining about .ml and other instances you disapprove of. Think of all the time you will save!

            That’s not enough for the centrists. They don’t want anyone to be allowed to be exposed to any idea to their left. Under any circumstances.

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              The amount of effort it seems people who like to call themselves leftists but aren’t remotely interested in any practical means of getting there are astonishing.

              I don’t think they ever make good faith arguments and spend 100% of their time online complaining about the practical leftists, doing things like calling them centerists for realizing their 1 day plans for revolution aren’t actually ever coming to fruition, or pointing out that their rhetoric, has, and continues to harm people by pulling power from the practical and pragmatic to the whimsical nonexistent nonsense they call solutions to problems but are actually just dream goals.

              Somehow, no matter the damage they cause, they double down on pretending the people who aren’t in dream land but have the closslest to their goals as them, are the real problem worth complaining about and not the people setting things on fire.

              I have to feel like these people are Jill Stien esque psyops sent to derail leftist ideas from ever actually seeing the light of day.

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                When it comes to doing the right thing for the American people, the useless centrists you insist on calling “practical leftists” do nothing and call it incrementalism.

                When it comes to selling weapons for genocide, they can’t do it fast enough and will fight to keep doing it no matter what it costs the American people.

                The country has slid to the right for decades and “practical” do-nothing-but-genocide centrists are enthusiastically complicit.

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                  You are clearly trying to strawman me again, which seems like your go to move here.

                  The DNC is currently a center right organization.

                  Practical leftists support them because they understand that in the American political system it is impossible to make another party, so the only way to avoid what we have here is to support the democrats and change them with local politics and primaries.

                  The practical leftists aren’t foolish enough to believe that the democrats losing will magically move them left, as what we’ve seen is instead, they’re happy to continue being “at least we aren’t republicans”

                  Your attempt to call the centrrists do nothing but genocide is an astoundingly ignorant take that shows you truly don’t take politics seriously, as you only go based on vibes and not policy decisions and more than that do not understand how little can be done in a permanent fashion when voters let in the other party every 4 to 8 years and you have no usable senate super majority.

                  You have yet to say anything that wasn’t repeating your strawman like a broken record. Like your politics don’t have any nuance to them at all or aren’t your honest opinions but just something you where to troll people who are actually angry with the state of USA politics.

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          Free speech means that you can speak your opinion freely without the state (country…) punishing you for it.

          Free speech doesn’t mean I have to listen to/read everything.

          And yes, you can block the whole of lemmy.world easily, if you want to.

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            Didn’t ask what you wish I meant by “free speech” or what you’re glad I don’t mean by it.

            Would thank you for answering what I asked if you didn’t waste my time answering (with fucked up wording) those 2 un-asked questions first

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          There’s a lot of users there who would very much prefer that no one to their left (and only their left) should be permitted to speak.

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            Your reply comes form there but will probably be the last post I see from there because I’m gonna go ahead and block the instance. Unless that still lets replies come through (fine with me, main feed is more my focus)

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          Interesting way of reasoning: “They are bad because they block stuff they don’t want to read, so I block them because what they do is stuff I don’t want to read.”

          Shouldn’t you be blocking yourself if you follow that way of reasoning?

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        People designated .ml as a tankie instance for very good reason: the admins of .ml have repeatedly shown to be pro-authoritarian.

        For years now I’ve seen incessant gaslighting from tankies pretending that “tankie” is some catch-all term baselessly thrown around like “woke”. However, I’ve pretty much exclusively seen the term “tankie” used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships.

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          There was a few people calling dbzer0 a tankie instance, when it’s an anarchist instance.

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            An ‘anarchist’ instance which claims to oppose genocide, yet allows genocide denial if it’s painted red, and where the admins deny UN verified sexual assault.

            Fantastic.

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          I don’t support authoritarian regimes, but I get called a tankie plenty by centrists who hate that I don’t support the authoritarian regime that their wing of the party sold weapons to.

          “Tankie” is just something the genocide wing calls people who disagree with their only policy.

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            ah, then my impressions are biased, since I haven’t heard that term outside of Lemmy.

            There’s pretty much only one person I know irl that calls themselves a “centrist”.

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          LOL. Your main instance — lemmy.blahaj.zone —has a blanket ban on all Marxist Leninists, regardless of whether they are “tankie” or not. That is the most authoritarian thing I have seen on Lemmy so far and it’s from a self-proclaimed anarchist instance. The hypocrisy is hilarious. Anarkiddies are so unserious.

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            Sure? But Blahaj isn’t a country, it’s a social media.

            I’m free to register on multiple instances at once. If I ever became displeased with Blahaj’s admins, I could very easily go elsewhere.

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                My apologies for the confusion.

                In my original comment, I was talking about the term “tankie”, which is a term we’re seeing used a lot on Lemmy (a social media) to refer to people who support authoritarian governments (of countries, such as Russia and China).

                In my reply to you, I meant to say that the effects of a Lemmy instance being “authoritarian” aren’t at all as harmful to its users as an authoritarian country is to its residents, since it’s easy to change instances but its not generally easy (and sometimes not reasonably possible) to change countries.

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          By any leftist conception, capitalist nations are undeniably authoritarian, yet you never see self described “leftist” who praise welfare capitalist states like the Scandinavian countries getting called a tankie. Clearly the term is not “used to describe people who support authoritarian regimes/dictatorships”.

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      Probably good to warn people that .ml isn’t representative of the fediverse at large, they’re just very loud.

      If you were introducing a new friend to America but for some reason, knew their flight was landing in a MAGA convention, would you not warn them so they didn’t immediately turn around and go home?

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      During the Reddit exodus, there were lots of complaints about left wing extremism. Most of them were landing on ml, grad or hexbear. This isn’t a good thing in the long run, so the bad press is necessary; otherwise this place risks being branded as “tankie HQ” before we can get some real traffic here.

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      No one “worries” about seeing it. It’s that if you engage with anyone from, or anything posted in, a .ml, about any topic at all, you’ll eventually be hit with “capitalism causes all problems in the universe” or the rest of their standard “I’m 19 and this is deep” tankie talking points like some mandatory checklist of things they have to cram into every post or they get kicked out of the instance. It’s exhausting and pointless. No one runs around elsewhere in Lemmy making it a point to defend capitalism, so it’s just of a constant eye-roll when “I’m an independent thinker! Here’s the same thing we all say!” happens.

      Edit: OOOh, seems like I struck a nerve, eh?

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        When people post comments like yours or memes like the above it really comes off as defending capitalism and the status quo…

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        No one “worries” about seeing it.

        Then block them and quit whining that people don’t like exploitation as much as you.

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        You clearly haven’t engaged with anything, and lol @ “independent thinker” from someone defending the dominant economic and political system, which fyi is exactly what you’re doing

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    Must be exhausting to continously maintain your campaign against .ml

    Why not just block and move on with your life?

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    People see what they want to see? I’ve seen content I don’t agree with on several instances but the main reason I’ve got my main on lemmy.ml over Beehaw is because it annoys me greatly that there’s so often posts I don’t see that are relevant to me or just communities that seem accessible but inactive but are actually blocked without the interface saying so. This spuriously makes it seems as if a community is dead.

    To avoid ambiguity: Trump is a sentient lump of metastatic cancer and many right leaning people are limp-dick insecure ignorant assholes.

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    Do you people have any idea just how much signage costs? It way cheaper to have everything figure out it’s own danger sign.