Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.

Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…

The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.

Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.

Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?

  • 13igTyme@piefed.socialEnglish
    2513·
    3 days ago

    Just block all .ml instances and move to something not lemmy based. Piefed is good. Plus blocking an entire domain fork thing, whatever you call these, is as easy as one click.

    • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
      75·
      3 days ago

      This is the way.

      If you don’t like ml, just block them and leave lemmy.

      • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        52·
        3 days ago

        Why exactly is leaving Lemmy necessary? I blocked the .ml instances, but I’m content with Lemmy for the rest

        • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
          27·
          2 days ago

          Piefed is a 1 to 1 replacement with access to the same content.

          The lead lemmy developer has some u n usual political ideologies which are incompatible with my own.

          • ThirdConsul@lemmy.zip
            73·
            2 days ago

            The lead lemmy developer has some u n usual political ideologies which are incompatible with my own

            Ooh, interesting. Do you also leave buildings whenever someone plays Michael Jackson?

            • fizzle@quokk.auEnglish
              27·
              2 days ago

              What a silly thing to say.

              Firstly, it’s classic, textbook whataboutery.

              Secondly, I’m struggling to remember the last time I would have been anywhere that would have played Michael Jackson.

              Finally, you don’t seem to understand the basic concepts of approval, support, and patronage. The existence of alternatives is critical

              • I may not like my government, but I can’t just flip to another one so I’ll vote accordingly but pretty much go about my life
              • I don’t particularly like a lot of mozilla’s decisions in the last several years, but chrome & friends is worse. All I can do is use a soft fork. Still using a soft fork but at least not supporting firefox directly.
              • I don’t align well with desalines, and given the ready availability of alternatives, I can switch away without issue.
        • kurcatovium@piefed.socialEnglish
          35·
          2 days ago

          Because Lemmy itself is developed by the same folks who run .ml instance. Luckily there is piefed and mbin, which are compatible.

      • lokalhorst@feddit.org
        21·
        3 days ago

        Just because we block your instance, doesn’t mean we cannot interact with each other in communities on other instances!

        • snek_boi@lemmy.ml
          12·
          3 days ago

          Oh this is actually eye-opening. Thanks for explaining it. Had no idea.

          It still feels sad and frustrating, but it feels a little less sad and a little less frustrating

          And umm yeah nice to meet you