Yet another lemmy instance proudly hosted in Montreal, Canada. Still need to get a icon created, if there are any designers here who would like to contribute please feel free to post!
The admin could block it, but it seems already too popular to block given no one else has blocked it yet and most users are on it.
They have already run out of server capacity. They have fewer than 10k users. There will almost certainly be another instance that becomes the default if the reddit exodus occurs as expected.
Also, I haven’t seen any instances of lemmy.ml being super aggressive or restrictive. Lemmygrad.ml is blocked by most instances.
If I’m being completely honest, I’ll take communists over fascists 10 times out of 10. A leftist backbone is a convenient shield against the alt-right cancer that tends to inhabit these fringe internet communities.
If I’m being completely honest, I’ll take communists over fascists 10 times out of 10. A leftist backbone is a convenient shield against the alt-right cancer that tends to inhabit these fringe internet communities.
100% agreed. While I’m glad the more edgelord/4chan style of instance is blocked here, I appreciate and value the leftist ideals the Lemmy project seems to have been built on, because without them this federated platform probably wouldn’t exist as it currently does.
The lemmy[.]ml admins have definitely handed out lengthy temp bans to people from their own instance who were posting a lot of pro-Russia, pro-China, more authoritarian left type of content for getting combative/disrespectful in comments. I don’t see why anyone cares what kind of political viewpoints a site admin has as long as they moderate fairly and don’t let their internal bias lead to them playing favorites when they should be impartial. The modlog being public is a great way for the community at large to audit that type of thing, and is one of the many things I think the Lemmy project has implemented much better than Reddit ever did.
moderate fairly and don’t let their internal bias lead them to playing favorites
So, nobody should be an admin then? It’s nigh impossible to completely eliminate personal biases.
The mod log being public is great, and I’ll have to make use of that.
I’d rather reject all genocidal maniacs instead of acting like I need to prefer one over the other for practicality.
I haven’t seen anyone advocating for genocide but good for you, you’re against genocide
