Checking the mod logs often finds an on topic 'right wing' post getting deleted by their mods. As such I block everything news or politics related from there. I block non politics and news when I can find a community on a different instance to serve.

Fairly early on, when discussing defederating with an instance called "exploding heads", I laid out criteria I would consider worthy of defederation, which you can find here

I was primarily concerned with unwanted traffic going out over the rest of the Fediverse, hosting illegal content like child porn, or being a rampant hive of racism and calls to violence.

So far I've basically heard people accuse Lemmy.ml of being rather Chinese in their moderation in-house. Is that all we've got?

I am generally against defederation. The way I see it .ml has problems with how their instance and communities are run and moderated. Unless there is content that puts sh.itjust.works in legal jeopardy I don't think defederation will solve a fundamental discourse problem.

Honestly I don't want to see .ml users unable to interact with our communities where they are subject to local rules. It is a foundation of the fediverse and the discourse it enables to avoid defederation.

I don't see instance issues with .ml: just user issues. Users and communities everywhere can exercise their own discretion with bans and blocks. This isn't a defederation issue as I see it.

I'm more bothered by anti-tankie posts then tankie posts.

I might be following the right communities, because I never noted problem with user from .ml.

I start to wonder whether we don't have some person using tankie the same way as mainstream right-winger use woke.

I'm going to echo what seems to be the majority opinion here and say that defederation should not be taken lightly. The last big defed discussion here I was in favor of, but that was a very different case. That was a hatespeech instance with the barest veneer of "just asking questions bro", run by a free speech absolutist who was a few sandwiches short of a picnic. Their daily posts consisted mostly of transphobic, islamophobic or anti-semitic rage-bait (or some combination of those). EDIT: Oh! There were also a lot of covid conspiracy posts there too, now I think about it.

There are some communities there I avoid, but that doesn't merit defederation. In my mind at least, that should be reserved for instances that allow illegal content, pure unadulterated hatespeech, instances that have been overrun by bots so badly the admin can't handle it (temporarily for that one ofc), or instances that regularly brigade and the admin encourages this behavior.

And besides, I've also had some pleasant and interesting conversations with .ml users. There are some problematic users and communities, but that's why we have block buttons.

”Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.

In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. " - Karl Popper

We have tried to keep the intolerance of lemmy.ml in check through rational argument and public opinion. We have failed and we muat act to ensure lemmy remains a tolerant place.

They whole discussion came from someone getting banned from every single lemmy.ml community for posting a picture of tank man on the anniversary of Tiananmen square massacre on a relevant community. He then posted about this on .world where is was discovered that .ml is selectively federating rhe modlog.

I would classify the selective federation. Of the modlog as malicious as it means that .ml is performing moderation actions on posts and comments across the fediverse without federating it this is malicious and i would argue abuse of a bug (concerning considering that the bug or unintended behaviour is usefull for the people who wrote the code).

At this point the only way we can ensure security and prosperity across the fediverse is through the defederation of lemmy.ml by all major instances.