Dear Admins and Users of lemmy.world,

I am writing to express my concerns about the impact of lemmy.ml on our community. It has come to my attention that lemmy.ml frequently disseminates propaganda and engages in historical revisionism. Moreover, there have been instances where their admin privileges were used to suppress dissenting views, reminiscent of the already defederated lemmygrad instance.

While personal blocking of lemmy.ml is an option, it does not address the broader issue of new users potentially being influenced by misleading content. It is crucial that we protect our users from a continuous stream of biased information.

To illustrate these concerns, I have provided a link to a detailed post on the Fediverse that documents these issues comprehensively [Here].

Given these points, I urge the admins to consider a defederation from lemmy.ml. If their users wish to remain part of Lemmy.ml, that is entirely acceptable, but we should take steps to prevent the propagation of harmful misinformation, especially in their comment sections.

Thank you for your consideration.

  • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
    814·
    7 months ago

    but, these communities come along with an assortment of lies and Propaganda.

    So block those individual communities that post what you consider propaganda. Hell, even block the whole instance - that option is readily available to you.

    At which point the negative outweigh the positive?

    With a server like, say, Hexbear, this would be an easy calculation. Defederate and what does the average user miss out on? Not a whole lot. On the other hand, .ml has a wide variety of technology, open source, gaming, hobby, etc. communities that don’t even touch on politics.

    I regularly visit many of them, so for me at least, it would take a lot more on the negative scale to even break even.

    • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.worldOP
      143·
      7 months ago

      For sure I can block them for myself (as I have mentioned in my Post itself) but this won’t solve the Problem of policing non political Communities and injecting them also with propaganda.

      • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        616·
        7 months ago

        To what extent is this actually an issue? What examples do you have so far?

        • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.worldOP
          153·
          7 months ago

          Pardon me but have you read the Post i linked? He talked about politics, granted, but banning him from non-political Communities (in fact, ALL Communities) is completely out of proportion. And that is just for reciting established facts!

          • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
            514·
            7 months ago

            Yes I have, which is why I’m asking. While I agree that the admin response was totally out of all proportion, this is not evidence of either of the things you previously claimed.

            If you’re going to justify defederation based on non-political communities being policed and injected with propaganda, you need to provide some concrete examples of that happening.

            • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.worldOP
              102·
              7 months ago

              First and for most my main reason for defederation is that they straight up lie and mislead.

              If you demand prove I will unblock ml again and will try to find it. I would have thought that you would have seen this yourself since you seem to be more on ml than I was.

                • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.worldOP
                  101·
                  7 months ago

                  https://lemmy.ml/post/16185014

                  https://lemmy.ml/post/7981013

                  https://lemmy.ml/post/15667300

                  Here are three posts from the memes-community. They got downvoted to oblivion (from the Users) and contain propaganda, but were not removed or anything from the moderators or admins. The People who posted thisdid not got punished or anything.

                  Here is a Comment from someone who tells about his own experience in communist Hungary. His Comment got removed for violating rule 1 “Be civil and nice.”. Why does this comment of his own experience get removed for being not nice, but posts which contain propaganda and clearly insult people in an non-political Community like Memes did not?

                  This Comment (even though I disagree with its content) got removed for “Bourgeois Bootlicking” despite having Rule 2 in place, which states: “Be respectful, especially when disagreeing. Everyone should feel welcome here.” His Comment was as, if you ask me, maybe not totally polite but still acceptable.

                  The Admins on lemmy.ml are totally willing to turn a blind eye towards propaganda, Insults and lies “for their side” even in non-political communities but they will strike you down if you disagree.

                  Of course, I can’t cover every community and I’m sure there are many people who are not like this but there is a huge trend towards this style of moderation.

                  PS. : Sorry for light-mode. I somehow could not turn it off on lemmy.ml.

                  • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    36·
                    7 months ago

                    I appreciate the effort you’ve put in here, but still I do not see grounds for defederation. You’ve just given me three examples from a single community that is obviously political.

                    Look, the question isn’t “are there communities on lemmy.ml that are ideologically censored”, because of course there are; the question I am putting to you is “is the average user going about their business and not actively engaging in politically-oriented communities affected enough to warrant the largest Lemmy instance completely defederating?” I would still say no, personally.