“.ml has a bunch of huge comms” is nothing but a myth anyways

https://lemmyverse.net/communities?order=active_month

By MAUs, only a single .ml comm is in the top 25, doesn’t even crack the top 10 and it’s a meme comm

Join the boycott of the tankie instance Lemmy.ml today! So we can show instance admins of the wider Lemmy-verse that .ml does NOT reign supreme and it’s NOT worth it to “look the other way” on the .ml admins documented behavior because of their supposed “biggest comms”

Congrats to !linux_gaming@lemmy.world 👏

  • Rose Thorne(She/Her)@lemm.ee
    English
    42·
    3 months ago

    First off, going to apologize because I’m trying to explain things with the most minimal bias I can muster.

    To explain as easily as I can, there’s a wide variety of attitudes on Lemmy. .ml is notorious for being pro-Russia and China, banning anyone who speaks out against them. They’ve also been held as the largest, most active instance, so they’ve heavily gotten away with how users are treated for voicing differing opinions. You can also find mass downvotes against people who speak out against .ml, even outside of the instance, with members flooding in to defend them.

    They’re part of what people on here call the “Tankie Triad”, using communist rhetoric as their defense for what many outside of the group think is absolutely abhorrent behavior.

    There’s a lot more complexity going on, especially with the main Lemmy devs openly holding the same viewpoints, but that’s a very surface level overlook.