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  • Lemmy.ml is the reason I don't even tell anyone I use the Fediverse, let alone recommend it.

    Even if they hadn't followed around an old account downvoting everything I posted (mostly memes) I'd support defederation.

    On the whole, they're not real leftists, let alone communists. It's a facade for them to spread disinformation.

    Lemmy.ml is a propaganda machine for a murderous, authoritarian government.

  • the prevailing sentiment that I personally encounter is the sort of strawman nonsense you'd expect from bad faith actors trying to fracture leftists.

    Their goal is to support both/all extremes of the political spectrum in order to divide the CCP's geopolitics rivals, especially the US.

    Divide and conquer in a digital age.

  • Yes, you're right. I was being facetious and that's not helpful in this situation.

    The Fediverse is full of propaganda, but extremist content is usually limited to Hexbear, Lemmygrad, and lemmy.ml.

    Hard to forget Hexbear accounts saying they were going to murder me when they started their revolution, but that's not a generally a problem in the rest of the Fediverse.

  • let the individual user figure out for themselves

    What a ton of people will figure out is that the fediverse has a serious problem with propaganda and moderation. They'll come check out the Fediverse, see it's full of extremist political content, and go back to Reddit.

    I'm thrilled about the potential of the Fediverse to be something great, but I won't even tell anyone I use it in it's current state.

    Defederating malicious propaganda instances like Lemmy.ml should be a no-brainer. It's not "people I disagree with," it's a murderous authoritarian government's tool for spreading lies.

  • Yeah, I saw someone on Lemmy showing screenshots two posts that were copied exactly from like 8 months ago except for a single new legitimate comment. It's wild what LLMs are doing to online interaction and honestly.... this is just the beginning.