At some point I have to start wondering if Putin pays these sorts of people.
Pick whatever instance you find first, they said. It doesn't really matter which one, you can participate all over lemmy, they said.
Now every time i post a comment, people automatically assume I'm pro Russia and a tankie on account of having an account on lemmy.ml
This sucks. I can't believe I'm gonna have to migrate instances to be taken seriously on discussions.
See it in a positive way: now you can carefully choose an instance that you like compared to your previous account
Also, this must be my 10th alt. It takes a few minutes to export/import the settings and that's it
sorry to hear that. My first account was on ML too.
Yeah same. I moved after seeing too many words being censored like removed.
I was flabbergasted when I found out the word Chicken was sometimes censored. It would put removeden. Really saved me from those nuggets of hurtful baby hens.
We don't believe you, you tankie vatnik.
/s obviously.
FYI, just making a new user on a different instance isn't a big deal. Guess why there's a "3" in my user name. Come to think of it, my first account was on lemmy.ml too, although the main reason why I moved at that time was because I forgot the password.
People are dumb everywhere. You're not really wondering about that hm? 😉 I wouldn't migrate because of that. Quite the contrary, the dumdums sort themselves out this way, saves a lot of time.
But what you also have to consider, migrating instances sends a signal. Its the same as people who stopped using twitter because of musk. When you continue using something you make it look like you font really care, so migrating your account is a good way to tell the admins that you dislike their policies.
While you're totally right regarding twitter, i can't say the same for those instances. I'm not deep enough in the matter to allow myself an opinion. I just don't know about any politics about any instance. If there is, you're totally right then too. Leaving is the best bet. If I'd knew my instance would wanna push a certain narrative, even if it'd be congruent with mine, I'd leave.
ok liberal
I could see a strong argument for personal safety around such a question (potential for self-incrimination and going through windows) but bigotry is a head scratcher.
Serious question.. how?
Is everything on Lemmy traceable back to the source?
If it's networked, it's traceable.
I'm using a VPN. How would that work?
VPNs didn't make things untraceable at all. That's not what they are for. They are just a method for encrypting traffic between two networks that have connectivity to the public Internet. Traffic from your machine to the VPN entrypoint gets routed just like any other network traffic. A relatively passive MitM can readily see where packets are going to/arriving from based upon the headers.
ips are probably logged somewhere between here and there
I legit would not be surprised if Dessalines takes money from some unsavory people to operate .ml as a kind of information war training ground.
User donations are certainly not generating him any real cash flow.
I'd be surprised if Lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and Hexbear don't get funding from the Kremlin/CCP
To be fair, the first part of the sentence kinda sounds like an accusation against Russians. However, it isn't something i would consider worthy to be deleted.
I remember when the Ukraine war started and in the comments of one of the first reddit posts were full of Russian people saying how they hated it and they just wanted peace. Nowadays I can't remember the last time I saw someone who is Russian on reddit or Lemmy really.
This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.
Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.
Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.
Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.
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