Asking as there has been a few comments mentioning this with the new !stardewvalley@lemm.ee taking over !stardewvalley@lemmy.ml

!yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com for additional context on those recent events if you are interested

Also, an older post for more context on how lemmy.ml is managed: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

Curious to hear other thoughts about this, as I’m trying to keep !simracing@lemmy.ml active, but might suggest to move it elsewhere if a lot of people prefer not to interact with lemmy.ml communities

  • iorale@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 days ago

    100% yes.
    .ml generates most of the propaganda about my country I was complaining about in other post.
    Just the fact that their admins also own grad speaks volumes.
    It gets tiring having to be on the tolerant side while they can freely astrosurf backed and protected by their admins and devs… Just like the bots on reddit.

    If only blocking the instance at user level also blocked the users it would be great.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Pasting from another comment in this thread:

      The only way I know how to ditch the users, besides blocking each one individually, would be to make a new account on either dubvee.org or Lemmy.cafe where all 3 of the big 3 are completely defederated. Think of those instances as troll-blockers, working hard to keep the Fediverse pleasant to converse in:-).

      • iorale@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        8 hours ago

        If they allow porn, anime, hentai, weed and piracy, I might make the switch, but this usually is the biggest obstacle.
        I’m used to the lack of mexican content (except from the propaganda) so that’s not a problem.

        • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Yeah it seems like there’s barely anything here for Mexico, which I guess uses just the standard sources. There is !mexico@lemm.ee, but… you see how empty that is. There is https://lemmygrad.ml/c/latinamerica but… fuck no, not on on that instance!:-P

          Yeah I see !trees@sh.itjust.works at lemmy.cafe, though I don’t see trees@lemmy.world so perhaps nobody there has subscribed to it yet, anyway ymmv. And I see !animepics@reddthat.com, but you may want to check your specific communities.

          Damn, lemmy.cafe is somehow even running 0.19.6-beta.9. Is this too good to be true - is this a trap?:-) Or is the instance admin that much on the ball?

          • iorale@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            2·
            7 hours ago

            Yeah, the México thing is to be expected, we are extremely ignorant when it comes to technology, meta has everyone grabbed by the balls and they hold on to that. Even on reddit the subs have low activity and most are poorly moderated (hell, r/mexico is actively under the control of the political party in power, the users downvote the propaganda, but the mods protect their bots and manipulate the posts).

            I’ll check the other instances later, as you can see I like keeping my profile empty because I’m too nomadic so it should not be a problem.

            • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              Yeesh. Things are not perfect in the USA but it does sound a bit better than that - until/unless Trump wins and then the gap will close a bit:-(.

              I wonder where I will end up myself! I even wonder if I should take a break from social media altogether over the next couple of months, but that seems doubtful (if only bc it would take quite some effort to replicate the various functions, e.g. research a good RSS reader). Lemmy - like everywhere else - seems likely to become a shitstorm until the election is over.:-(

              Though dropping lemmy.ml and hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml should help a ton.