Zaktor @ Zaktor @sopuli.xyz

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.ml used to feel similar to .world in that it mostly indicated you just joined a pseudo-default, but it feels like it's getting more ideological over time. The devs run two instances, .ml and lemmygrad, and lemmygrad was the explicitly Marxist instance, but since lemmygrad got defederated from some large instances it feels like some of those users might be moving to .ml so they can maintain access.

I wouldn't worry too much about it impacting your experience or what people assume of you in the near term. It's still generic enough that a .ml handle doesn't automatically mean something. It's more like a confirmation when someone is already posting some extreme things.

One of the family’s cars was “completely disintegrated,” and the other had extensive damage. Her yard was littered with plane parts, broken glass and debris.

“I definitely do feel blessed, because we’ve been spared,” she said.

I feel I was more blessed than her, because not only was I spared from being killed in a plane crash, but also because God didn't destroy my car.

No.

The someone he killed was himself. He blew himself up on a day that the area of the clinic nearest him wasn't really in use and wherever the eggs are was not in range. He certainly could have killed someone, he just didn't happen to.

I think the guy was the only mod, and he stopped posting 2 years ago.

Oh I'm well aware of the relationship, but if you call CNN Stormfront, you've completely lost the plot. Things can be problematic without everyone being a Nazi, and in a time with real Nazis out in the open doing things, crying wolf is actively harmful.

A Nazi in a bar makes it a Nazi bar. A Nazi bar in a town makes it a Nazi town. A Nazi town in a state makes it a Nazi state. A Nazi state in a country makes it a Nazi country. A Nazi country in the world makes it a Nazi world.

You can construct gradients of connection for anything, but that doesn't make them not insane. If .world is a Nazi website, then .ml federates with them, so they're also Nazis. And hexbear federates with .ml, so they're also Nazis. And this all stems not from .world actually tolerating Nazis, but just being kind of center-left normies. When you're eager to make everyone a Nazi, the accusation loses all meaning.

That's an absurd level of connection though. It's blown right past the mild hyperbole of calling Twitter a Nazi site because it doesn't ban Nazis, past calling your Fox News uncle a Nazi for voting to "stop the caravan", through labeling MSNBC a Nazi station because it buys into the "break the conservative fever" myth, and into the territory of "everyone who doesn't agree with me is an actively organizing Nazi".

Stormfront isn't a site for "well meaning patsies" and calling .world a Nazi site is just making up a heroic story for why the fascist at 7/11 kicked you out because he hates communism rather than because you were being an asshole to everyone else in the store.

"Active" being a dozen posts from two years ago.

Though right now we're probably inflating our own importance by thinking anyone at all will associate Lemmy with this guy in any meaningful way. The name was referenced by the reporter because they needed to say where the random posts came from, and talked about like it's just a general social network rather than an organizing place for a radical ideology.

Yeah. The "it was just because they hate communism" descriptions of hexbear defederation are just making up a story of oppression to explain why it wasn't actually their behavior that got them locked out. People don't hate communism, they hate trolling, tankies (in the literal sense with the Ukraine invasion), and brigading (referencing their fights with the libs and then a bunch of commenters swarming).

I could take or leave the lemmygrad defederation, but hexbear absolutely made its own bed.

The defining trait of Stormfront of course being its liberal apologia. These people are not grounded in reality and just need to keep finding more extreme labels for the people that did them wrong.

They're a huge instance most people joined by default. No one sane thinks a .world account means anything about the person posting under it, except maybe they just went along with the pseudo-default.

You guys think there's a big rivalry and anyone who hasn't rebelled against the unjust persecution of the tankiest instances must have cast their lot in with the enemy, but in reality no one really thinks about it at all.

You've got nothing to worry about. It's the largest instance. There's no particular stigma for users on it. Unlike there is for the more ideologically selected instances, like .ml.

So what? I don't think we need to worry about his future posts.

It's just trying to hijack a post to discuss a related issue they'd rather talk about. That's the perfect reason for a downvote.

In that same period, Bartkus’ rhetoric on alternative social media sites was dark.

I'm just proud they know we exist.

There's not much reason for a trimmer guide to experience meaningful load.

There isn't a problem to address in the first place. Earned money is taxed income, as it should be. Making a category of earnings that isn't taxed just incentivizes more businesses to cut pay and have customers make up for it in tips.

The only one of those that both exists and competes with SWIFT as an international banking infrastructure is CIPS, and that already existed prior to the Russian sanctions. The entire world didn't do anything in response to Russian sanctions, China saw an opportunity and used it to promote the alternative it already had and already wanted to expand.

Very much like the Unilateral SWIFT BAN on Russia. This prompted all of countries in the world to create an alternative and so they did

Lol, what? Where you getting all this propaganda from?