Mr. Dessalines and Principal Nutomic were in the closet making 19.4 and I used one of the pre-releases and the pre-release gave me Havana Syndrome and made me into a Manchurian Candidate!

Looks like someone’s been squatting on @POTUS@lemmy.world & @Potus@lemmy.ml since last year.

I’m not going to take the time to dispel your presumptions nor explain myself, my motivations, or this Lemmy instance. I’ll just say that I’m not convening a grand jury trial and constitutional convention because one new user (who on first impression is giving Western chauvinism vibes) had one negative interaction with one Global South socialist who has been here over four times longer than me.

Edit to add: Again, please note that this is not an explicitly socialist instance. I won’t elaborate as to why, but it’s no more by accident than the explicitly socialist ones. What is lemmy.ml?

Okay, let me know how this passive-aggressive pressure tactic works out, person who just just got here. I’ve given you my answer.

He’s gotten some temporary bans as well as post/comment removals. Omega_haxor is right about hexbear: it’s explicitly socialist, unlike lemmy.ml, and it’s even more explicitly supportive / aggressively protective of the trans community. Several of the largest instances have defederated from hexbear, so for better or worse, access is more limited.

We aggressively remove transphobic/transmisic posts/comments on lemmy.ml. Please report any that you see. But understand that we don’t control the content of other Lemmy instances, so when you select “All” instead of “Subscribed” or “Local,” it’s the wild west.

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Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Breaks Community Rules

You’ve been subpoenaed by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.

Does anyone know a reliable site for checking? This is just a random one I found: http://www.chinafirewalltest.com/?siteurl=lemmy.ml

lemmy.world seems to not be blocked. I have no idea how they make these decisions 🤷

Edit to add: FWIW Wikipedia has a short list of test sites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_mainland_China#External_links

Maybe the real tankies are the comrades we made along the way

People, think about the implications of a TLD before choosing your domain. Look up the organization that controls it and their restrictions on using it. Basic-ass research.

If it’s whitelabel, what will Meta do? Start a new company? Inevitably, people would figure it out, and go with something else.

I think what’s more likely to happen than my maximalist argument, is that some existing instances will get direct or indirect funding or other forms of support from Meta, and start influencing their direction.

we’d just defederate them.

It’s true that we can always choose to defederate from them. What’s to worry about is their meddling with the ActivityPub standard using their incomparably vast resources, and them making their own extensions to the standard in efforts to suck users back into the Borg. Things like that.

Unfortunately, even if instance admins were to unanimously defederate, Meta—or any social media corporation—could create white-label instances to take their place, and we might be none the wiser of their control of them.

1. Meta is going to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish the Fediverse
Verdict: Unlikely

Thanks, now I know not to take you seriously.

Edit to add: My uBlock Origin extension is blocking “threads.net” on his site. Perhaps he’s got some skin in the game.

I don’t think this is a bad suggestion, but it’s worth noting that lemmy.ml is explicitly intended not to be the “main” Lemmy, or even a major one: What is lemmy.ml?

I’m thrilled to be able to use 2FA now, because I’m able to get an otpauth URI to feed to pass!

• First they came for the lemmygrads, and I did not speak out, because I was not a marxist-lenninist.
• Then they came for the hexbears, and I did not speak out, because I was not a leftist.
• Then they came for the lemmy.mls, and I did not speak out, because I was not a privacy enthusiast.
• Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.

They’ve defederated from lemmygrad.ml: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/2347489