The administration of lemmy.ml routinely abuses its rule 1 anti-bigotry policy to conduct political censorship, deleting documented facts regarding the ukraine invasion, holodomor, and xinjiang abuses under false pretexts of imperialist propaganda, misinformation, and nazism while leaving pro-Kremlin talking points untouched.

Verifiable public moderation logs prove this systemic shielding of state propaganda, down to moderators inverting standard geopolitical context, such as noting that fringe extremist units do not make an entire democratic nation fascist, to ban dissenters under the explicit excuse of being a Nazi.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=25800386 and https://lemmy.world/modlog/446?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20355358.

The Europe community moderator (https://lemmy.world/u/geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml), who focuses exclusively on criticizing the West and never Russia or China, banned me as a Nazi.

I decided to block the lemmy.ml instance entirely to avoid any further interaction.

I see that there are dozens of relevant posts; you can find the relevant report posts here

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 15 minutes ago

You do realize admins "on the left" are doing the exact same thing, methodically deleting posts with facts they don't like? For example /u/little_cow@lemmy.world, which looks like some alt account used specifically to delete posts. Are you going to defederate lemmy.world as well?

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 minutes ago

Let's normalize shaming and shunning individuals, like geneva_convenience in this example, over ridiculing an entire community.

Communities are not monolithic.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 4 points 2 hours ago

This is nothing new under the sun.

An individual could block .ml instances, but I choose not to so I could keep calling out their bs. It's not win an argument and stoke my ego, but it is for any would reader to see how nonsensical .ml users themselves and their ideas are.

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 hours ago

There needs to be a list of instances that defederate lemmy.ml by default. It's not just a single community, it is at the admin level.

[–] abc@suppo.fi 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Defederate lemmy.ml

[–] nexguy@lemmy.world 3 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

I had one .ml mod delete a comment of mine because I listed events that disagreed with them minimizing the horrors of 1986 republicans. They stated your average '86 republican was further left than 2026 average dem. So I blocked that mod and that channel.

So I guess .ml are apologists for the '86 gop now?

[–] BrilliantantTurd4361@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 hours ago

You arent really a lemming until you've told Cowbee to go fuck himself.

[–] Ashrakal@lemmy.ml -5 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

What is this thread even. Blocking an entire instance, because a single community member annoyed somebody? I mean, sure, go ahead…

ML simply happens to be the instance hosted by the developers of entire Lemmy, so they spend the bare minimum on post moderation, because they have the bigger picture to focus on.

Now the screenshots show that a “mod” took action. A “mod” can be literally anybody appointed by the current mods of a community. Anybody can create a community, just like on Reddit, so this could literal have been anybody. You’ll encounter similar bans on other instances in time as they grow too, because people are free to make sub-rules to their communities, essentially each “mod” having their little dictatorship.

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 0 points 14 minutes ago

blocking an entire instance

Don't worry, I already have lol.

Haven't seen a single .ml post in months, I no longer need to see posts arguing:

the Uyghur's aren't being genocided
uncle Kim's totally communist state do not punish entire families for an individuals crimes
Hamas are misunderstood freedom fighters.

[–] mofongo@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nah, they're tankies, they have an agenda.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My agenda is already booked with useless meetings unfortunately

[–] Zozano@aussie.zone 0 points 13 minutes ago

We know, you're an .ml user

[–] gandalf_der_13te@feddit.org 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

yeah everyone knows this

[–] TeddE@lemmy.world 19 points 10 hours ago

No, many people know this; but there are virgin minds born every day. Consider XKCD's classic Ten Thousand. Part of the vigilance means doing the documentation, and on a social media platform, that means periodic updates as content. Few people take up arms on a fight that nobody can see.

This person is doing good work 😋, even if the conclusion is unsurprising.

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