ArxCyberwolf

One of the traffic signals is backwards. Busted!

Smoking at night is a lot better imo. Peace and quiet, nobody around to bother you, and no potential surprises or responsibilities to deal with such as work calling you or suddenly having to drive somewhere.

Don’t feed the troll. They don’t actually care if it’s gambling or not.

Oh, don’t play the victim. Everyone knows who you really are.

Also helps identify trolls and bad actors at a glance if you don’t already have them tagged as such.

Your comment wasn’t worth any more effort than that. Sorry!

I’m sure you’d know a thing or two about strawmen.

My guy, you know nothing about my political positions. I’m anti-authoritarian, which is not a “liberal” position lmao. Authoritarianism is antithetical to leftism and only leads to millions suffering and dying.

Also, literally anyone can take a single look at [email protected] and see for themselves how heavy handed .ml’s moderation is to near-absurd levels. Constant rule 1 bans for anything users like davel and dessalines consider dissent or criticism of their pet regimes.

I wouldn’t say they’re necessarily fans of communism, more fans of authoritarianism. There’s nothing they love more than to lick the boots of authoritarian leaders, even decades long after the countries they are/were in charge of stopped being communist in anything but name only.

If it’s not within my field of view, it might as well no longer exist. Especially if I need that item.

Not everyone against tankies are American or even from the West. You ARE aware Lemmy has many worldwide users, right?

To expand:

On .ml, you’ll likely end up being banned for “bigotry” if you dare criticize certain authoritarian regimes. The mods and admins cannot handle any sort of dissent, so censorship is quite heavy there. You’ll even get banned from unrelated communities. It’s the least toxic of the “Big Three” tankie instances, but still not a great place to be. There’s also the issue of overcentralization since it’s such a large instance, as getting an unwarranted ban can block off access to a good chunk of communities.

Grad is .ml but more extremist. They’re widely defederated for good reason, as their users are pretty horrible to anyone they consider a shitlib. I can’t say much about them from personal experience as they’ve been defederated with my instance for as long as I’ve been here, but many have alts on .ml where they do engage in shitty behaviour.

Hexbear is by far the worst. Take grad, and turn the hostility up to 11. If you say the wrong thing, it may end up posted in their “dunk tank” where they’ll then proceed to harass you as a group for days or longer, even taking it to DMs. They do not federate with other instances to participate in good faith, they federate in order to push their agenda and “dismantle Western propaganda”. And by that, they actually mean flooding threads with oversized emotes and graphic pictures of pigs shitting on their own testicles when they decide to brigade. They’re also widely defederated for good reason, and most threads involving defederating with them have plenty of examples of their awful conduct outside of their instance. Many have alts on other instances to bypass said defederation though.

That would expose new users to Hexbear, and I don’t think new users would stay long after accidentally provoking them with wrongthink and getting spammed with pig testicle pics and insults. That was my experience when I first joined Lemmy and it wasn’t pleasant. Lemm.ee’s hands-off approach to defederation can be both a blessing and a curse, and I’m not sure it’d be best for new users to be exposed to some of the worst of Lemmy.

You have the power to curate your feed and block problematic users. There’s no algorithm that’ll do it for you here.

No, fuck you!

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Authoritarianism is not acceptable regardless of what your ideology is, and goes against everything actual leftists stand for. People like you are no better than the capitalists and fascists you claim to be against.

Sorry you can’t be bothered to look at the evidence that’s clearly available right in front of you from a community meant to document this sort of behaviour. Where that evidence is is irrelevant, the behaviour itself is on full display for you to see.

Take a gander through MeanwhileOnGrad. All sorts of authoritarian bootlicking documented right there for anyone to see.

Criticism of China’s government = sinophobia (somehow) = banned for bigotry