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[–] [email protected] 92 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (29 children)

Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

Also perhaps block me if you strongly disagree with the above.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (13 children)

That instance's mods blocked me this morning lol.

The amount of people simping for Russia in that other thread is insane. Apparently calling Ukraine a country of Nazis is fine, but saying Russia is a dictatorship is not lmao.

If you see a tankie or pro Russia comment, 99% of the time it's a lemmy.ml poster

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

yep I got banned from there for simply stating that ukraine has a right to defend themselves after Modi called for "peace". Apparently absolute pacifism is only required from one side.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, but most instances already defederated from them.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

😄exactly! Phu, the brain gymnastics that those people are capable of is mind bending 🤣

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Can we see where someone is hosting a Lemmy (domain, insnace, thing?)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well I doubt it's Mali.

https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=lemmy.ml

France. Maybe. It's mostly guesswork, but gives the same location for hexbear.net.

It's mostly cosplay commies rather than actual Russians.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Yea I figured it's just a bunch of middle class kids who have the privilege of being online and complain. Also fuck Hexbear....all my homies hate Hexbear.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I guess, you got to check IP and see what country it belongs to, but if they use a VPS or VPN or both, you can’t really know where the person who manages the instance lives / operates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Sometimes it is posted on the instance front page or about page.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Some of us are actually normal

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, when I created my Lemmy account I had to choose an instance before knowing anything about Lemmy yet. And .ml seemed like the default one to choose, given https://join-lemmy.org/ told me it is ran by the devs.

Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Similar story here tbh.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

I see you, hang in there buddy!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't help if the admins think you're not. Which is why I had to relocate a community because of admin content meddling and instance users shitstorming in a waterglass.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ee is cool, but your upload limits were crap.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fair, but most of the time, photos that I post won’t get any better with more pixels anyway 😂

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I throw a lot of low effort memes, so I need all the help I can get.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

I would encourage that, but if your instance doesn't defederate them you may have to go a bit farther since you'll still get replies from lemmy.ml users, as users are not blocked as part of this functionality. And that is by design, it's not meant to act as a replacement or alternative to defederation, it's meant to act as an alternative to blocking all communities on an instance.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Seriously, the hexbears just moved one over to keep getting exposure.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Yesterday I accidentally commented in .ml and mentioned that voting third party in our current voting system is playing with fire to get a worse candidate in office. I was told I must therefore start a grassroots movement for ranked choice voting, because apparently I can't have an opinion without a movement.

Normally I let a few downvotes get under my skin more than I care to admit, but in this setting it was kind of a badge of honor. Honestly it was kind of "fun" to see what people were saying.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml

I approve this comment.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

improved my lemmy experience ten fold just blocking that instance.

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