I think instances with ideological underpinnings is fine, and maybe inevitable. The crucial thing is that they need to be honest about it, so that those not interested can go elsewhere.

The problem with lemmy.ml is that it pretends to be a catch-all instance when it's in fact very much not, and that it doesn't tell users up front what it's all about. Both Hexbear and Lemmygrad are better in that respect—at least they're honest.

Btw, the ml in lemmy.ml stands for Marxist-Leninist if you didn't know. The moderation on lemmy.ml has been consistently removing posts and banning people for posting anything pro-US, pro-EU or pretty much pro-anything that's not capitalism. Notable exceptions to that rule are Russia and China where their capitalism and imperialism are ok.

My personal political ideology is social democracy with heavy emphasis on the social part but that's too moderate apparently.

They it's not only a political view, are unhinged.

I've enjoyed piefed a lot so far. I think it's a good choice.

No, their users are by and large insufferable fascist sympathisers. They're the reason ML gets a bad reputation.

https://sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad

This should get you up to speed.

They're tankies.

Same thing in most cases.

I got banned for calling that yogurtz guy a ruski simp.

And I'll do it again.

The entire worlds media saw them as the nazis they are before the war

Look at Godlesscommies posts as an example. Complete moron who thinks Ukraine are all Nazis and that Russia is saving the day by murdering them, kidnapping their children, and stealing their land.

They'll never consider that Russia aligned with the Nazis at the beginning of WW2, they'll never see China and Russia as more imperialist than America, and they try to hide behind the guise of communism or socialism being a decent idea because on paper everyday people share the wealth, but ignore that literally every one of their dog shit communist countries are authoritarian dictatorships who have no qualms killing anyone or engaging in genocide.

This is an alt, they said elsewhere. They were banned on their .ml account.

My ban has been lifted now. Are you able to tell me how to find the modlog? I'd like to see what they actually banned me for. There was a point where I said I thought Russia should be broken up and given to it's neighbors and they started responding by claiming I wanted nuclear war and posting pictures of Hitler. It was pretty over the top. I am wondering if that was what got me the ban. When I log in to my ml account I can't find anything, no message or anything, that says what the ban was for.

No proof but instead saying asking for proof is a bad thing.

Oh, hi, it's Mr Asymmetric Demands for Proof again!

How about for a change, you go and dig about in the modlog instead of demanding everyone else does?

Provide a witness statement that you found out their .ml username and searched the modlog and found nothing, and you'll lend your viewpoint a shred of credibility. But without that, all we have to go on is your weird demands for proof that behaviour we all know the .ml mods are renowned for actually happened again for the 1758th time.

If someone says something happened on the fediverse without providing a link, they’re lying.

I say that you argued with me for hours and hours yesterday after I said that you were as unnecessarily argumentative and bad at backing down as the person you were calling toxic. I recall finding it amusingly ironic. I remember you being particularly upset when I pointed out that calling me names wasn't really proving me wrong. That's when you started swearing at me in DMs and calling me things you weren't prepared to call me in public.

I refuse to supply a link. Am I lying?

TL;DR Demanding proof that something that happens a lot happened again is reality denial masquerading as rationality.

I'm banned so I am on another instance.

Weird how he's not giving us the alt, I'm sure there's no reason to do that. Context and evidence is bad, I guess.

There are some exceptions to this. Blahaj blocks downvotes, for example. You can downvote a post on Blahaj, but people (like me) with accounts on Blahaj cannot downvote nor can they see downvotes. I'm sure there are other instances doing similar things, as it sounds like Lemmy has a robust set of instance settings/options.

The instance matters if you post about anything political. If your instance admins don’t like your posts, they will delete your account. Mods and admins of other instances can only ban you.

If you’re on an instance that is widely defederated

Or one that widely defederates.

I believe mander is the only instance that has a policy of only defederating illegal content.

In contrast .world has a huge de-federation list.

The instance you’re on doesn’t really matter very much if you never read the local feed.

Yeah, Ive been on .ml for like 5 years as of writing this and I just browse my subscribed feed. My experience has been great!

OK, I apologize for my tone. I’m not here to criticize you. I am legitimately interested in helping:

All of those things you mentioned? Do all of that. Focus on your local feed, check out comments that originate from your instance. That’s how you will get a good feel for those who subscribed to your instance.

And, as others have mentioned, you can sign up to any instance and still interact, however, you are still beholden to the rules of rest of Lemmy. Follow the rules of whatever community you’re commenting or posting in, sure, but, aside from the instances that are defederated, you can interact, post, comment, vote, whatever, regardless of your home instance. It’s just that a lot of people take particular care in choosing their home instance, and they choose a home instance that sociopolitically aligns with their own views.

This is neither necessary, nor demanded from the vast majority of Lemmy users, but it is good practice. It’s just how Lemmy was designed, and if you’re not interested in doing that, fine.

Like any other online interaction forum, what really matters is the quality of your posts and or comments.

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the fun part is asking them how they'd feel if someone murdered them for the utopia, and all the sudden they are not so hot on violence.

It's bullshit campism for lazy thinkers

honestly i thought that's what it was as well; the sheer disappointment when i found out ... ugh

Mountain lion

Hard to tell if MAGA or BlueMAGA, they sound the same

Hows that incrementalism working out for you? Small baby steps to the right defending fascism.

If the shoe fits