Predicted .ml tankie response when they get here:

“This is just WeSTeRn pRoPaGAnda, Putin is just having COURAGE to break from the US no matter the consequences and has done NOTHING absolutely NOTHING wrong and absolutely isn’t profiting in it like you LibERals think.”

You have been banned from .ml

That pic is so old, I wonder what happened to him?

How is the bible non-fiction? Quite a statement. Care to explain beyond “it’s written up by god’s disciples”?

Fr LMFAO

Like others said, as shitty as HP is (Believe me I hate them, I literally made a new company IT purchasing policy banning HP branded products the minute I had the power to do so) if Linux catches on with the big players it will only push better drivers and hardware support across their whole portfolio

Yea that’s how most feel, the rest of the Tankie Triad, Hex and Grad, are much more in your face about it.

.ml aims for subtlety through admin and moderator action to avoid wider calls for defederation and also now that Lemmy is catching on to some degree, the main devs are letting the mask fall off on their “flagship” instance

Ah, it’s possible, but unlikely thanks to its open source nature

It has been suspected though that .ml is running a slightly customized version to help hide their censorship, but I have only read of accounts of it happening to others and no direct evidence

Aww, poor tankie, someday you might break free of the propaganda Russia is feeding you

You could always just block .ml, there’s good reasons to do so.

It’s called “context”. That’s like someone saying “cringe” on a post about volunteering to punch Nazis, I wouldn’t need further explanation to determine someone to be, at a minimum, a Nazi sympathizer because of context

I’m open to hearing how else I could interpret the comment “cringe” on a post about donating flash drives for piercing the NK dictatorship digital wall

Ah, you must be one of those “NK isn’t actually run by a brutal dictator, that’s just western propaganda” .ml tankies LMFAO

Yea I shoulda known it was recycled or something lmao, though I think this is my first encounter with it on Lemmy (that I remember anyways lolol)

Lol is Stepan Bandera to Tankies as George Soros is to Republicans? Lmao

Don’t you dare threaten me with a good time LMFAO

I’d say, more tolerated. Because they’re the devs, the lemmy.ml instance is considered the flagship instance.

Where new features go live first, a number of official support communities are and because it was the first, the perception that they have some of the biggest comms

The rest of the Tankie Triad (Grad and hex) don’t have that so that’s why they’re pretty much widely defederated from, it’s a much easier decision.

I say perception, because the comms there are only the “biggest” by subscriber count. If you look at the statistics by monthly active users, it tells a much different story where only a single .ml comm breaks the top 15 comms Lemmy-verse wide

It probably has, they’ve spent just the last almost 2 years or so of Lemmy-verse growth since the Reddit API debacle banning, censoring and ostracizing newcomers that didn’t fit in with the tankie mindset

They’ve become the echo chamber they always accuse .world/.ee/SJW of being

I support any comm moving off .ml due to their ongoing behavior

Honestly surprised the US is in the top 3 LMFAO

Lmao, technically my achievement has been relocked since davel reverted my existing 1 year site ban just 2 months in for brigading purposes and just manually banned me from 29 30 comms out of 3655+ .ml comms

And even this isn’t a site ban, just a plain ol comm ban, but since davel issued the Kia comm ban, I accomplished what I wanted

Anyways, if you want to see actual documentation of the Tankie behavior of .ml to scratch that “new material” itch, be sure to check out the other posts around here!