In their view, the world is black and white. They hate to be inbetween, they need to “choose a side”. They can’t say US and China suck both, or fuck Israel but also fuck Hamas, they need to be “pro” something. Because most of them grew up in it, they are mostly opposed to western countries - but they can’t leave it like that, they need to be anti imperialist. And that means siding with Russia, Iran, North Korea, China etc., the enemies of the west. It is absurd, but that’s how easy it is. Some months ago we all watched how Iran killed thousands of its citizen on the streets - now that the US attacked Iran, they sympathize with the Islamist mullahs! Because… fuck Israel or something? It’s a really narrow world view and it makes of course no sense, I mean who is imperialist if not Russia lol?

Check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works, but you need to log in from another instance, as your admins don’t want you to see that community.

I don’t really understand that post. It seems to be lemmy.world, not piefed. The no Hamas comment is still standing there, so it seems it’s more about the “rapey”?

To be honest, you are on an instance that is apologetic of Russia and North Korea, I don’t think that’s better either. Censorship is definitely way more present on lemmy.ml, it’s just your world view aligns better with the “anti imperialistic” stance lemmy.ml is holding up.

Without the context, it’s difficult to discuss. But I don’t see why we should favour one religious extremist group over the other tbh

Hmm, I don’t think sh.itjust.works is being blocked in general by ml, but I could imagine the Lemmy devs have blocked !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works in particular as they are being exposed there.

If you started a project, wouldn’t you list your server up top?

You can bet I would. But when the participation in the project grew in the way Lemmy did, I would step down from my instance admin rule and pass to someone else. I am not saying they should unlist the instance, all I say is that the roles should not be mixed.

Block it and move on.

That’s what I did, but that doesn’t mean I can’t talk about the topic here.

Sorry I just don’t think it’s right to pass judgement on people for doing what they want with their project or instance

I can understand what you mean. The problem is that this constellation prevent Lemmy from growing because people are weirded the fuck out by the statements that are being made on lemmy.ml and especially the moderation strategy of the developers. I can recommend taking a look at !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works and sort by Top. Some of the stuff is about others members of the tankie triad and some is bs, but it quickly gets clear who you are talking to.

The Lemmy software developers are the admins of lemmy.ml at the same time. Instead of being neutral, they push their questionable political agenda onto the instance. lemmy.ml is 8th now, but 3 years ago that was different. Also the most open source communities have been there, I don’t know really if that changed meanwhile.

That’s something that is criticized often - that the devs are not independent but instead try to push their instance as the “main instance”. But yeah I guess there are a lot of people like you. Don’t forget there is no Karma system, it does no harm to change the account from time to time, I do it yearly.

I think you will still see users from lemmy.ml despite the instance block. I have blocked it about 2 years ago and its the only reason why I am still here. I hesitated at first because of the open source communities, but then I thought, fuck it

If I just want to look at the file, is there a better way than cat foo.txt? I guess I can’t just do < foo.txt