As much as I don’t want that to be true, you’re not wrong. I’ve been banned in .world for reporting an obvious troll. I’ve had comments removed for asking what the weather is like over there. I was told I was calling them a russian troll and that’s against the rules. BUT, then I get called a troll in the same instance by someone from .ml and no removal of the comment, no ban. Free to say as they please. Lemmy has a serious mod problem.
Because there is a nonzero chance that Russia is funding Lemmy development and lemmy.ml as a propagandist training ground.
Yes, I know that sounds insane, but the official donation tally is like $2300/m for lemmy.ml and Lemmy development, which means they either have some other funding or Dessalines is just choosing to be the poorest software engineer on the planet because he is just that cool.
That would not surprise me if true. I’m also noticing an oddly large amount of people I’ve blocked commenting in this thread.
I can’t read their comments without going to a different app, but I usually only block people spamming bullshit or when they throw a lot of slurs at me.
Blocking an instance in the user settings just hides communities from that instance in the community search. Defederating hides all communities, posts, comments and user from that instance. It’s not implemented the same way, probably on purpose, because the Lemmy devs (who btw are the admins of Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml) know that half the Fediverse would just block them.
Time for other instances to defederate. Blocking an instance on the user-level unfortunately isn’t the same as instance-level defederation.
Yea, lemmy is a bit of a mess. And from some interactions I’ve had with mods and devs, it would seem they like their platform a bit derailed
As much as I don’t want that to be true, you’re not wrong. I’ve been banned in .world for reporting an obvious troll. I’ve had comments removed for asking what the weather is like over there. I was told I was calling them a russian troll and that’s against the rules. BUT, then I get called a troll in the same instance by someone from .ml and no removal of the comment, no ban. Free to say as they please. Lemmy has a serious mod problem.
To be fair, still better than the alternatives
I agree
Because there is a nonzero chance that Russia is funding Lemmy development and lemmy.ml as a propagandist training ground.
Yes, I know that sounds insane, but the official donation tally is like $2300/m for lemmy.ml and Lemmy development, which means they either have some other funding or Dessalines is just choosing to be the poorest software engineer on the planet because he is just that cool.
That would not surprise me if true. I’m also noticing an oddly large amount of people I’ve blocked commenting in this thread.
I can’t read their comments without going to a different app, but I usually only block people spamming bullshit or when they throw a lot of slurs at me.
They identified this thread as something that might slow their propaganda efforts, so here they are
Might just be coincidence, I dunno
True, but enough coincidences can form very convincing patterns.
I’m not going to speculate when they’re right there, I just have to log out
It doesn’t sound insane at all. I don’t know if its a training ground, but I’d bet my arm there’s Kremlin funding being pumped straight into Lemmy.ml
If so, Vlady Puty, well known for his love of communism, is pretty stingy about it:
He doesn’t care about Lemmy development, he’s paying people to run LLMs.
Why? I’d prefer to make the decision on an individual basis, genuinely.
Blocking an instance in the user settings just hides communities from that instance in the community search. Defederating hides all communities, posts, comments and user from that instance. It’s not implemented the same way, probably on purpose, because the Lemmy devs (who btw are the admins of Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml) know that half the Fediverse would just block them.