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      17 hours ago
      Why am I cross-posting .ml content?

      I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

      Megathread on the issue

      Some highlights from the link:

      "Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

      “See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

      .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

      “NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

      General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

      “If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

      And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

      I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

      On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

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    Tbh the design screams “edgy teenager that has never read theory”, it would be quite tempting to ask the person what was the last theory they read

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      It’s literally just a shirt with a hammer and sickle, what the fuck do you mean it screams”never read theory”???

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      i find the push to read theory quite annoying tbf, it makes me feel like i need to pass a test to care about others. to be a leftist all you need is your own brain and empathy at the basis. yeah it’s good to suppliment that with sources but it’s really not that necessary, just be kind - everything else will come later

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        Sure but my point is less about the theory and more about the loud and obnoxious symbol on the back, if you’re just a good person and you silently support liberation than I consider that a good thing.

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          You realize all the authors that wrote the books you’re referring to used this symbol right?

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      Oh, you’re one of those people. Like the losers who gatekeep hobbies by demanding that women prove they’re good enough at them.

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        Its not gatekeeping to say that there’s more to revolutionary thought than symbolism, additionally ideology is not the same as a hobby.

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          “Real revolutionary thought is criticizing symbols on the internet used by actual revolutionaries!”

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        Oh, I love srsly wrong! I remember listening to this episode back when it came out and it’s great

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    I feel dumb. I don’t understand what praxis means in this context. Even after reading the definition… someone send help

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      from my understanding praxis in leftie circles just means– practice, as opposed to theory. so doing stuff aligned with leftist thinking instead of just thinking