This is the kind of content the .ml admins cultivate through their bans and censorship. They’ll frequently remove articles from credible good sources that directly go against their narratives, while allowing misinformation and conspiracy websites to include RT, Sputnik and (as shown) random substack blogs as long as they tow the narratives that align with them.
E.g. Ukraine is a Nazi regime and Russia is just “liberating” the Ukrainian people
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I tried using lemvotes.org to check the votes, but I have had trouble getting that site to work for checking votes on some comments. Not sure why.
Edit: also having trouble checking votes on the post as well. Odd.
I think lemmy.ml defederated from them.
Every other site more or less doesn’t care. Your Lemmy votes are not private. But, lemmy.ml as always cares deeply about controlling the narrative, and talking about who is voting and how and how often particular .ml users feature in the voting patterns, disrupts their ability to pretend that they’re standing up for normalcy and a handful of isolated “liberal” instances are the weird ones who love censorship.
it would be incredible if they convinced .world to share their vote data instead of having their own instance
It’s not really necessary; 100% of what you need gets federated out to anyone who asks for it, so it’s pretty easy to just set up a little instance for yourself and then do whatever data mining you want to do.
but for things like lemvotes, they can block the faux-instance that they’ve created to get the data… if they were to get the data via .world it’d be almost impossible (without inside information) to know who to block - and it’s .world, so blocking that is a big choice
You’re betting that they would be unwilling to block .world in a way that they would be willing to block lemvotes… hm, you might be right. IDK, I’m just not sure it is all worth that much bothering about. That kind of tit for tat of blocking/defederating and then making new stuff to get around the blocking, to try to force somebody to share information they’re trying not to, is just kind of silly I think. Better to just address it by talking it out and being reasonable as opposed to having dueling software systems trying to enforce one person’s will on another person’s system. But, IDK, good luck getting a reasonable and productive response out of either lemmy.ml or lemmy.world admin teams…
I think whatever shadow instance lemvotes uses either doesn’t federate with .ml or .ml blocked it (I can’t imagine why they’d do that though!/s lmao)
I suspected that may be the case, but I am still able to look up .ml users and see their individual votes. Wouldn’t defederating from the lemvotes instance block that too?
Just checked a .ml user profile I know to be prolific, the last votes it had were from April 29, so that’s probably when they got blocked and it’s just a cached version
If you know of a new .ml user that was made after then and it doesn’t pull up with them, then that’s def what happened
Ah, that would make sense. Thanks!
Same reason .world did probably
Nope, man you just love to spread false narratives don’t you?
Here’s @[email protected] votes for the comment just above. A .world account.
Well it certainly doesn’t always work, so I quit bothering. Interesting enough when I did bother, every DV was from this instance.
Probably most admins prefer not to facilitate petty lemming drama threads like this one.
Yet here we are. 🙃
Use the Fediverse link (the star) not the normal one (the chain) to get the url.
Yeah, tried that, still doesn’t work. Pretty sure they have the lemvotes shadow instance defederated because accountability or transparency is for westoids