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cm0002

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  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • So only if special users do it?.

    No idea what you mean on this

    Interesting philosophy to hate the tool while still using it and pulling others content from it.

    Code is code and isn't inherently poltical it was released as open source for those to do with what they please.

    Cool crusade you have there

    Thanks! Are you going to go make another thread on hex about it :) just wanna know if I should make up a batch of popcorn

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  • You wouldn't believe the amount of straight propaganda I have to filter out when crossposting from there, it's another reason I can't automate it. No way I could trust automation to sufficiently filter that crap out. Russian propaganda sites like RT always seems to crop up over there with odd urls like "swentir[dot]site"

    I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.

    Megathread on the issue

    Some highlights from the link:

    "Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

    "See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

    .ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

    "NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

    General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

    "If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

    And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.

    I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda

    On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.

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  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • I think a couple troll accounts sprang up on instance after my post, the actual admin though is seemingly a serious right-winger with all the trimming that entails. But does seem to be allowing those to exist ig for "free speech" lol

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  • Aaaaand tagged

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  • Beware, another "wonderful" conservative instance to "free us" has appeared

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  • Lol yea ok tagged right-winger user from the right-wing HC instance LMAO even

  • Removed

    Is fediverse turning into reddit?

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  • Bro!

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  • We have the modlog, all mod actions are not only visible to other mods and admins but to everyone.

    Though there definitely could be some improvement and there have been changes made by dessalines to make it less useful allegedly to protect themselves, it still should be able to prevent that kind of shenanigans

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  • I don't think it's particularly helpful to allow it to fester in secret

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  • maga.place

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  • Nobody is saying that they can't, mostly what you'll get is calls for defederation.

    Calling for defederation is a matter of simply not accepting content or voting from the targeted instance. Everyone has the right to spin up an instance for whatever they believe, but everyone else also has the right to not pass your content through their servers or display it to their users

    This isn't to call to shut them down, this is to raise awareness so people can update block lists, instance admins to investigate/check with their users/mods on what they want to do

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  • Yea, but it's not like they're going to get a whole lot of conversions from here, probably mostly right-wingers who were already here and a couple troll accounts Lmao

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  • It's a whole instance, but they haven't made any comms yet but I think it's only like a day old so the nazi-comms are probably coming soon

  • Raaah

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  • I knew I should have turned off auto-update ugh

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  • It failed the spouse test when I last tried last year

  • I knew I should have turned off auto-update ugh

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  • Ig they're rolling it out in waves, they decided to overhaul their app UI...for the worse IMO

  • I knew I should have turned off auto-update ugh

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  • Here's a comment I wrote on it about a year ago

    Tldr; they are an early example of open source enshittification before enshittification was even coined (iirc)

    This is going to go back quite a ways, and much of my knowledge is old at this point so some details might be off.

    ~15 years ago Plex as we know it started out as an OSX fork of the 0G Xbox homebrew software XBMC (Later renamed Kodi (For those who don't know, XBMC was XBox Media Center and would turn the 0g Xbox into the cheapest Home Theater PC you could get at the time, man those were the days lol))

    Plex was only briefly open source and then was quickly closed when they incorporated a year or so after they had something functional. They never made any promises about not charging or being open source or anything, so that's why I'm generally fine with Plex

    Sometime around 2012ish Emby came along as THE open source alternative to Plex and things were good. MOST of it was supposed to stay open source as was promised. From the beginning they kept build scripts n such closed source, probably should have caught on them, but heh ya know hindsight and all that.

    Then around 2014/5 they took it all closed source, relicensed it and introduced their paywall including locking away already existing features. This is what pissed me and many others off and this is when and why Jellyfin split off promising to be truly fully open source forever. (There was a ton of drama about it at the time, but it looks like Embys Q&A thing a bit back doesn't even bother to mention it, imagine that lol)

    I don't have a problem with subscriptions on open source software myself, but the way they went about it...yea. fuck em

  • I knew I should have turned off auto-update ugh

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  • Am I doing this right

    Well if you ask me, not really, I disavowed emby years ago and afaic its just Plex and Jellyfin in this space to me