cross-posted from: https://feddit.nl/post/16246531

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to as tankies. This wouldn’t be much of an issue if they didn’t regularly abuse their admin/mod status to censor and silence people who dissent with their political beliefs and for example, post things critical of China, Russia, the USSR, socialism, …

As an example, there was a thread today about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. When I was reading it, there were mostly posts critical of China in the thread and some whataboutist/denialist replies critical of the USA and the west. In terms of votes, the posts critical of China were definitely getting the most support.

I posted a comment in this thread linking to “https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs” (WARNING: graphical content), which describes aspects of the atrocities that aren’t widely known even in the West, and supporting evidence. My comment was promptly removed for violating the “Be nice and civil” rule. When I looked back at the thread, I noticed that all posts critical of China had been removed while the whataboutist and denialist comments were left in place.

This is what the modlog of the instance looks like:

Definitely a trend there wouldn’t you say?

When I called them out on their one sided censorship, with a screenshot of the modlog above, I promptly received a community ban on all communities on lemmy.ml that I had ever participated in.

Proof:

So many of you will now probably think something like: “So what, it’s the fediverse, you can use another instance.”

The problem with this reasoning is that many of the popular communities are actually on lemmy.ml, and they’re not so easy to replace. I mean, in terms of content and engagement lemmy is already a pretty small place as it is. So it’s rather pointless sitting for example in /c/linux@some.random.other.instance.world where there’s nobody to discuss anything with.

I’m not sure if there’s a solution here, but I’d like to urge people to avoid lemmy.ml hosted communities in favor of communities on more reasonable instances.

  • @SoJB@lemmy.ml
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    121 month ago

    ITT: genocide supporting fascists get triggered by being called genocide supporting fascists

    We get it, you’re jealous about how leftists are always on the correct side of history.

    • @blackn1ght@feddit.uk
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      251 month ago

      This is like the perfect comment as to why a lot of people find ml users insufferable and toxic.

      • @barsquid@lemmy.world
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        131 month ago

        Most of their comments are perfect examples. Everyone except them is a fascist liberal who loves genocide.

        Even Uncommitted, who have basically the same opinion as everyone that Harris is in the wrong but Donald would be worse. Fascist genocide lovers.

      • @OpenStars@discuss.online
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        41 month ago

        b-b-bUt SuReLy rUsSiA hAs NeVeR dOnE a GeNoCidE?!

        Or ChInA eItHeR?!

        The USA supporting Israel is… ahem, never mind, anyway it’s not anywhere on the same class as Russia CURRENTLY and ACTIVELY being the very ones DOING the genocide.

        Nobody is that dumb. Therefore that’s beyond ignorance - that’s sheer, willful obstinacy.

    • @zbyte64
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      51 month ago

      The funny thing is I thought you were talking about all the genocides, including those led by Russia, but then I saw your handle and realized you mean only those done by NATO and their allies.