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purahna
purahna @ purahna @lemmygrad.ml
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A fairly balanced and well-informed video about China's SCS by PolyMatter

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  • not gonna lie comrade, this seems extremely unbalanced, I'm not even half way through and we've already hit the population crisis smears, atrocity propaganda, "Chinese companies are poisoning baby food for profit", China waging a "war on terror", somehow criticizing China for being a hyper-authoritarian hellscape and the wild west at the same time, and then some. I'm gonna finish it out but unless this was all a big gotcha this is basically straight from US official propaganda

    • How to view the list of blocked communities?

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  • In short, the majority of the fediverse was (and probably still is, despite the large influx of redditors?) highly communist in nature, but Beehaw, being predominantly moderated by liberals, were getting so dogpiled for their aggressive anticommunism that they just threw up their hands and started defeferating with any instance that disagreed with them from the left at the drop of a hat. At this point they're probably cut off from 75% or more of the fediverse and I'm sure blissfully ignorant in their little liberal bubble. We're probably not getting them back and to be honest I'm not sure it'd be rewarding to have them back, if their users want proper discourse they can just make an account over here.

    • Check out the posts on c/ukraine over at lemmy.ml, indistinguishable from Reddit at this point

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  • the hyper-abridged version:

    Each "instance" (beehaw, lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, etc) is like its own small self-enclosed Reddit. "Federation" is the process that allows the instances to talk to each other - like for example, users registered at the beehaw instance can go and comment on posts from the lemmy.ml instance. This allows each instance to keep its own culture while granting the breadth of community of having every user able to interact with every other user. Some communities "defederate", which basically means an instance decides that for whatever reason they don't want their users interacting with users from another instance. So the network isn't fully connected, but instead forms a distributed network. Totally down to answer more quetsions despite my account only being like an hour old lol