The administration of lemmy.ml routinely abuses its rule 1 anti-bigotry policy to conduct political censorship, deleting documented facts regarding the ukraine invasion, holodomor, and xinjiang abuses under false pretexts of imperialist propaganda, misinformation, and nazism while leaving pro-Kremlin talking points untouched.

Verifiable public moderation logs prove this systemic shielding of state propaganda, down to moderators inverting standard geopolitical context, such as noting that fringe extremist units do not make an entire democratic nation fascist, to ban dissenters under the explicit excuse of being a Nazi.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=25800386 and https://lemmy.world/modlog/446?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20355358.

The Europe community moderator (https://lemmy.world/u/geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml), who focuses exclusively on criticizing the West and never Russia or China, banned me as a Nazi.

I decided to block the lemmy.ml instance entirely to avoid any further interaction.

I see that there are dozens of relevant posts; you can find the relevant report posts here

Log screenshots

  • Ashrakal@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    10 hours ago

    What is this thread even. Blocking an entire instance, because a single community member annoyed somebody? I mean, sure, go ahead…

    ML simply happens to be the instance hosted by the developers of entire Lemmy, so they spend the bare minimum on post moderation, because they have the bigger picture to focus on.

    Now the screenshots show that a “mod” took action. A “mod” can be literally anybody appointed by the current mods of a community. Anybody can create a community, just like on Reddit, so this could literal have been anybody. You’ll encounter similar bans on other instances in time as they grow too, because people are free to make sub-rules to their communities, essentially each “mod” having their little dictatorship.

    • Labor Class@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      I get banned from the instance too. Can I community-ban from the entire instance? No? Ban reason is in the same post

    • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      6 hours ago

      blocking an entire instance

      Don’t worry, I already have lol.

      Haven’t seen a single .ml post in months, I no longer need to see posts arguing:

      • the Uyghur’s aren’t being genocided

      • uncle Kim’s totally communist state do not punish entire families for an individuals crimes

      • Hamas are misunderstood freedom fighters.