My .ml experience:
- Have a different opinion
- Get banned for rule 2
- See what rule 2 is
- Respect other opinions
this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2025
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I'm pretty sure I'm banned from .ml.
Badge of honour.
Yep. They’re afraid factual reality might infect their little flock of frightened chicks so they inoculate the entire hen house with “Rule 1” bullshit. Meanwhile, they have no problem allowing vitriol and hatred to spew from their own loyalist goons. And those goons are able to take advantage of the free speech that all the other instances practice because they know that lemmy admins are flaccid an ineffective tools.
.ml needs to be defederated. Let them cry about it in their own little echo chamber.
I'm not even a particularly principled commenter.
Pretty much all I do is shitpost.
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You know what's funny is .ml was one of the first instances I signed up for. I thought it stood for machine learning or something to do with programming.
Yep. I made an account there. Got banned for having an opinion that was in direct conflict with the propaganda shattered there.
I knew it was a leftist instance. I went into it (naively) excited to engage with a more thoughtful leftist internet space, considering it was a bunch of reddit exiles who were upset about heavy handed Reddit censorship. I was quite disappointed to learn quickly that it was just more of the same tankie brain rot, with more of the same tankie censorship you can find in a thousand different tedious places.
Even then I stuck with it for a bit. And then I learned that the head admin was potentially the most fragile person on the Internet, who literally will not post outside his own instance because he cannot handle any internet where he does not have (what he believes to be) a "win argument" ban button. It is literally so cringe, I cannot stand to be associated with it, and I don't understand how other people tolerate being associated with his antics.
MLs are essentially incapable of arguing in good faith. You know how Christians quote to bible to "prove" their religion is true? MLs are the political version of that.
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I've got an ml account too, but at the time I think world was normal. I think world has also gone the Reich way.
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The tell-tale indicator is the post itself, not the instance.
I'll make my own judgments, thank you.
Solid rule: verify the source before the outrage. Saves your blood pressure and your feed.
I usually try and block all .ml users I can see. It’s like a fun little whack-a-troll game.
I was wondering why so many tankies dominated that instance.
ML meaning "Marxist-Leninists" makes so much more sense now.
What a bunch of assholes.
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Whenever braininabox shows up, you know it's about to get a little Rule 2 in here
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me, a shitjustworks based fucker
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