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

    • Labor Class@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      24·
      3 days ago

      I share this to raise awareness; The more people see their abuse, the better for public awareness

    • Pratai@piefed.caEnglish
      911·
      3 days ago

      Yeah. But .ml douchebacs still come to other instances to run their Putin-sucking mouths. It’s like whack-a-mole trying to block them all.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        105·
        3 days ago

        And don’t forget the alts they make on other instances, which they then proudly mention in certain spaces (like on lemmygrad) how they evade such instance bans and user blocks.

        They are very proud of their ability to remain not only ungovernable, but people who willfully remain insensitive to others needs as well.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
      89·
      3 days ago

      The issue is you can block the .ml instance, but not their users from bleeding into other instances. On top of that .ml is a default instance, and a lot of the times trying to get people to join the fediverse, the first thing I hear from them is, no thanks it’s filled with tankies.

      Basically it’d be like trying to get people to join truth social because there are sane people on it but you’ve got maga and the orange shit turd posting crazy shit on it. Lemmy has a stain attached to it in the form of two tankie devs and a tankie instance they run.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        73·
        3 days ago

        Who also absolutely refuse to separate funding for future development of the Lemmy software vs. operating costs of the Lemmy.ml instance.

        Also if you study its modlog, the amount of time they spend each day curating that content is high, to say the least. Not every dollar (or ruble or whatever) spent goes towards the latter, but it seems that a goodly portion of it does.

        The devs themselves are the very ones tying the development of Lemmy with the operation of Lemmy.ml - this is not hidden in the slightest.

        • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
          42·
          3 days ago

          I see… Maybe time to move to piefed then? I was tooling the idea to switch on my instance but never did.

              • INeedMana@piefed.zipEnglish
                1·
                2 days ago

                Migration of user with joined communities etc works. But if you want to migrate whole instance, that won’t be so easy. Mainly because other instances will still think yours is Lemmy. I think that in the long perspective what would be the easiest would be to

                1. create subdomain something(usually people put piefed here).downonthestreet.eu
                2. set up piefed on it (basically a separate instance)
                3. mirror everything from downonthestreeteu (I don’t know how it’s done but it was done for lemm.ee)
                4. migrate your user

                Technically it’s a migration to another instance but you’d keep your history etc

                • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  I have only one user and host no public communities (at least, none that I would migrate). Ok I see.

                  So I would setup piefed on a different subdomain and then can I migrate / copy all my subscribed communities and posts and comments over? Because I want to remove the Lemmy instance then, and not lose all that

      • Shimitar@downonthestreet.euEnglish
        31·
        3 days ago

        It must be me not following any community where those tankies are too active. Or maybe not being actively interested in discussing with them.

        I don’t ban any instance on my one-user instance, so it’s clearly something I am missing here since I never had issues.

        I am also not much interested in politics either, so maybe it’s that.