Source https://lemmy.zip/post/72029200/29026430
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All valid… but surely you understand that some people just randomly go with the first instance they find?
I’m all for people personally curating feeds.
Not sure about purity tests, or really what that means here - I’m just giving an opinion. I’d be horrified if everybody else agreed with me…
If you walk into a nazi bar unknowingly thats fine. You can even go back a few times and most wouldn’t think twice about it. But if someone asks you why your frequenting the nazi bar and their response is anything other then “I didn’t know its a nazi bar.” Followed promptly by them leaving that bar then they are infact also a nazi.
It can take a while before someone starts to notice a pattern in a group as large as a lemmy instance. Took me almost a month before i started to notice the pattern of every bad faith actor and asshole seemed to be coming from .ml over and over again.
.ml is just a “nazi bar” of lemmy. Just not literal nazis.
Hence this community, to give people more information on tankie instances.
Honestly, if I was on .ml and had already subscribed to the comms I wanted I’m not sure I’d bother to migrate… and slowly things would get quieter and quieter until I quit and told everybody I know, who’s tech literate, that the fediverse is dying.
god it’s a shame that there isn’t a community that could help someone in that situation. maybe somewhere tankie bullshit could be called out and put on blast.
oh wait!
The only thing I disagree with is the active push to defederate / total block list an instance based on the incorrect assumption that every single member can, at will, transmute into a homogenous extremist totalitarian hydra.
Do you know the English phrase: could not see the wood for the trees?
I don’t know, if I was on .ml and saw links to posts where the instance’s admins and mods are saying that killing people like me is a good idea, I would “bother to migrate”. And then I would tell everybody I know, who cares to listen, that the fediverse isn’t limited to a handful of fascist in red coats.
ml has a sign up form last I checked. It isn’t just a click the first thing you see situation.
When I first encountered .ml’s instance I actually wondered why the Republic of Mali had such a strong presence in the fediverse.
I’m a bellend - that was for someone else.
I started on .world cause it was the first in the list of instances on the app i downloaded. I only moved cause they started blocking vpns and doing other stupid shit.
Took me a good soild month before i even noticed .ml was the unifying factor between all the idiots i kept seeing.