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This is what the admins of .ml cultivate, as documented in the megathread

Credible sources removed just within the last day: https://lemmy.world/post/32298242 https://lemmy.world/post/32426343

.ml is not much different than the rest of the Triad, continued federation with them is continuing to allow them to spread toxic misinformation and behavior across the Threadiverse.

If you're an instance admin, please consider defederation.

Users, consider joining the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance.

Other wonderful content, and this is just from when I looked at the local new feed a bit ago:

Classic RT I'm sure you all know and Pravda.ru "Pravda Report"

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[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, OP. I had heard of the problems with .ml but haven’t seen it laid out as well as you did.

I’d definitely prioritise an instance that doesn’t federate with them.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Lemmy.cafe is a wonderful little instance that defeds from the whole Triad while federating with most of the rest of the network

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

I’m on .world ~~which has defederated from .ml~~. What are the other two in the triad?

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.world has not defederated from Lemmy.ml, I really wish they would, being the largest it would be of huge boost to the health of the Threadiverse

But the others are Hexbear and Lemmygrad (if you wanna see some of the things they say, check this thread out (viewed as a local post outside your client) https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/48132283)

[–] FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for the heads up. I’m surprised that the support channel/community on .world doesn’t have a post requesting outright defederation from .ml. I’ve searched through nearly two years of posts there but found nothing substantial.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 23 hours ago

I don't think it was on the support comm, but they did respond on a thread about it once on why they don't defed from them like they did the other 2.

It boiled down to 3 things: big comms, official Lemmy support comms and the fact the devs rolled out instance blocking tools

The 1st one, I'm hopefully solving with my cross-posting and calls for boycotting, the third one is by calling attention to the fact that it doesn't work as one would think. Pretty sure everyone thought block meant block when it was being discussed.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

Hexbear and Lemmygrad, prolly

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 4 points 1 day ago

hexbear and lemmygrad, hexbear is pretty ultra left , when i was ee i was encountering the posts quite often enough that accidentally have posted in thier communities. i blocked all 3 as of currently.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Who ever is suprised by this clearly has yet to interact with someone from Lemmy.ml

[–] yucandu@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I just use old.lemmy.world but I was quite surprised to see a direct link to TheGrayZone on the very top of it.

It bears repeating: Russia is bombarding us with propaganda.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

even reddit wouldnt allow this for the most part on the main news subs. its the reddit rejects that flood to these instances.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Means we have to isolate them. Together