The website is attacking the users that made it the front page of the internet.
  • vga@sopuli.xyz
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    3 days ago

    news@lemmy.ml restricts saying anything even vaguely anti-russian in a time when Russia is effectively trying destroy the west. At the same time, they’re allowing rather blatant anti-west sentiment. And I’m not saying that that’s fundamentally bad, but rather that there is no such thing as unbiased.

    Reddit sure sucks and needs to die though. But their bias of not supporting murder is somewhat understandable.

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Lemmy.ml is not defederated from Lemmy.world, so new users will see everything by default.

        Also, “instance blocking” would be better named as "community muting’, bc it leaves users from those instances free to vote and reply to your content, trigger notifications, and you’ll still see it in other communities.

        To truly block it, someone has to first even know about it, and then the only real options are all rather extreme - move to an instance that has defederated from them all (Lemmy.ml in particular is extremely rarely defederated from), switch to using PieFed, a Lemmy alternative written in Python rather than Rust, or the Lemmy apps Sync or Connect. Or implement a filter like with Ublock Origin or some such. None of these are trivial, and again, none are available to new users to even be told are possible, or helpful to be done.

        • MehBlah@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          19 hours ago

          Just as long as I don’t end up on one of their sewage posts and get my post subjected to their simpletons logic and garbage morality. I can take care of blocking any trash users myself on a case by case basis.

          • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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            8 hours ago

            Yes that works. For you, but doesn’t help new people joining here from Reddit. Lemmy requires enormous curation efforts to become fully usable. But it does work… so long as you never mod any communities, bc you can’t afford to block those users who would then be able to post invisibly to you.

  • quazar@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I am literally here, now, commenting on this because I am reading the article to this on reddit and … I can’t believe they are going to start punishing upvotes! That is the final stray for Reddit. Its dead. Gone the way of Digg. I am literally here now to start moving over to Lemmy.

    I just realized - and must keep in mind, with a federated platform like lemmy, all of your upvotes and downvotes are broadcasted across the network. ANYONE could track your upvotes and downvotes in THIS system.

    I had no idea how much I valued voting privacy.

    • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works
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      3 days ago

      You don’t have voting privacy here on Lemmy though, and theoretically instance admins could “punish” you based on voting patterns.

      But decentralization helps that

      • Daelsky@lemmy.caEnglish
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        3 days ago

        If an instance becomes oppressive, nothing is stopping you from going to a new one. You can’t do that with Reddit. Let’s say my instance Lemmy.ca becomes awful, I can make a new account on another and still comment on this community. That’s the beauty of the Fediverse.