Source: https://photon.lemmy.world/modlog?community=65904
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Damn, a ban just for posting an article. Dude seems like all the criticism is slowly getting to him.
I saw an .ml user argue that North Korea and South Korea were basically equivalent.
Well that’s unusual, usually they argue that the South Korean government are “occupiers” LMAO
Currently, there are still large communities on lemmy.ml. Contact their moderators and tell ask them to move to another instance and/or merge with other existing communities!
The users are who need to move. A bunch of those mods actively ban users who call out tankie bullshit there. The whole damn instance needs to be defederated.
Not just that. People should switch from lemmy to one of the alternatives (mbin, piefed) entirely. Dessalines is still main lemmy dev after all and that’s not going to change…
I have zero issues with one of the main devs being a tankie, provided the code is good. It turns out political opinions tend to not impact code quality.
However, I’m unlikely to donate more than code provided he gets most of it, because I don’t want to financially support someone who actively supports misinformation.
My beef with Dessalines is 10% his politics, and 90% that he’s a power hungry asshole who uses development donations and pays himself to mod and occasionally make a commit. My beef Nutomic is that he’s a transphobe and a liar.
Putting up with these clowns was one thing when there were no good alternatives, but now piefed is better than Lemmy in a bunch of ways.
Maybe I’ll check it out. I dislike a number of things about Lemmy, but it’s been acceptably decent so I haven’t looked around much. I’ve been working on my own Reddit clone, so I’ve always had a short term mentality about it.
But yeah, if the two main devs didn’t have mod positions, I’d be happier.
I was about to point that out, but it looks like the mod that banned me for pointing out negative things about Russia is no longer a mod.
I’ve unsubbed from most communities there and things are much better now
Subscriber count is essentially a worthless metric on Lemmy, it’s overinflated because of dead accounts. The older an instance and it’s comms, the worse it is. .ml being the original most of it comms are old and way overinflated by dead accounts.
For example [email protected] has something like 55k subscribers, but the entire Threadiverse only has ~50k monthly active accounts.
MAUs is a much better metric to go by, and by that standard there are only 2 main comms that haven’t been dethroned by a non-.ml alternative yet [email protected] and [email protected]
But [email protected] is getting there!
oh are we the threadiverse?
Yea, the Threadiverse refers to all of the federated “Reddit-like” link aggregation social media, so it includes Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed and Sublinks (if it ever comes out)
Fully agree. I sorted lemmy.ml communities by MAU and listed a few from the top
Oh man, check it out with all the instances on if you want a little smile, .ml comms have fallen hard lol. Memes used to hover around rank 13, now it’s like 30 lmao
An American is taking care of the Russian community and defending it from CIA propaganda, that’s so anti-imperialist. I’m sure Russians are thankful 🙏
Is the “big D” actually an American? I haven’t really tried to look up any history on the dude.
Yes. He mentioned it in his reddit comments, but even if you don’t go out looking for it, there are various indicators - language (exclusively English), the fact lemmy.ml is registered from a US address, the fact that all of his discourse is heavily US-centric.
Frankly, only an American can be this obsessed with CIA.
Frankly, only an American can be this obsessed with CIA.
The first paragraph seemed very subjective. The last sentence sold me.
However, I dug a little bit into Kremlin propaganda about CIA propaganda, and whooo boy! It starts to get interesting really quick: https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000402720002-8.pdf
(That link could be CIA propaganda about Kremlin propaganda that’s about CIA propaganda… How deep does this go? Every time “propaganda” is discovered, they just add another layer, it seems.)
Spiderman meme
seemed very subjective
Him literally saying it is subjective? Operating from a US address is subjective? His language (including his natural American pronunciation that you can hear in his audiobooks) and the language of all of his sources is subjective?
And yeah, sorry chief, CIA saying that people saying bad stuff about CIA is SSSR propaganda is a bit too much even for me. I’ll go ahead and say it - suggesting that a tankie, despite the actual evidence in his online activity, has simply got to be a non-American because clearly he just hates USA too much, is a very American-brained and Red-Scare-ish idea.
I’ve no problem with you being skeptical, but consider the actual examples:
Leaf through his other comments as well, let me know what’s your impression.
He has audiobooks? For reals? OMFG.
The points you originally called out weren’t really much to say he was from the US. The additional information you gave was enough to convince me though. Thanks for that!
He has audiobooks? For reals? OMFG.
He reads/records other people’s books and puts it on his YT channel that’s linked on his profile, it’s not his own writing.
I guess I should’ve posted the reddit comments earlier on in the comment chain.
I think someone managed to figure out he was in belarus or something
Time to look into PieFed
The source is American propaganda https://about.rferl.org/faq/isnt-rfe-rl-funded-by-the-cia/
Sure, it’s not “literally” funded by the CIA, but it is “literally” funded by the US federal government
My dissertation was funded by the US government, Greg. Can you milk me?
You…you do know how many programs are funded by the US gov right?
Or is this a “Big bird was a CIA spy” comment.
Indeed, old equations still apply I presume? Sponsored by US govt = bad. Forced by
SovietRussian govt = good.Receiving a grant doesn’t mean that they’re beholden to the grantor or automatically make their opinions propaganda. That’s like saying Mr. Rogers was a propagandist for teaching kids to be kind to one another because PBS receives federal grant money.
I suppose you also believe that RT isn’t Russian state propaganda either, for the same reasons.
“But that’s not the same!” ok
