For all the newcomers that aren’t aware, I just stumbled upon this insane drama.
Apparently lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] is the result of a reddit sub ban of a
bunch of pro-china bots who vigorously defend the Chinese government, and the
two top admins are also the top devs of the Lemmy source software. Pretty
terrible stuff! The linked thread is full of their insane ramblings and
denialism Edit: I seem to have been blocked from commenting, all my replies are
timing out now. But I wanted to say that I don’t intend to make this post as an
“anti-lemmy” thing, I think the truth should burn brightly in the sunlight. We
should try to continue to grow Lemmy (especially since we’re the largest reddit
clone) while calling out their propaganda and hidden motive. Edit2: turns out I
can comment, I just can’t reply to kbin user comments from my instance. Just
spins indefinitely.
fucking amazing, you really can tell when people haven't spent a single fucking second investigating something
After reading their posts complaining about Lemmy.ml I actually visited that place for the first time expecting super Stalinist and Maoists banning people left and right and defending genocide and instead all I saw were posts like "gee, Twitter sucks, am I right?"
Which, ironically, it the same way I found Hexbear (people saying that chapos were scary left wing extremists and me wanting to find out for myself and finding out that actually y'all are pretty cool)
lemmy.ml is just a normie place for the most part, which makes it all the more funny when people claim it's full of tankies who ban you for saying anything bad about China.
I guess some communities there might remove the lame ”lol Tiananmen Winnie the Pooh social credit!” comments, which is just like