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This was one mod on one comm, if it's a good or bad mod decision I won't comment on. But poor mod decisions can happen any time anywhere.

The problem with .ml is the fact that it's the admins micromanaging across the entire instance in order to push a political narrative. Nearly all mod actions in the .ml modlog is from 2 admins and shows a clear bias to push their ideology, leveraging their notoriety to do it and allowing known misinformation outlets' "articles" to fester while surprising criticism from credible outlets.

That's not "literally advertising", that's an Easter egg, a very subtle hint or maybe even "coded language"

In any case, it requires the person encountering it to already have a concept of it and background knowledge to some degree.

This isn't the 90's/early 2000s anymore where there were only a few TLDs to go around, back then encountering .ml would have lead to a line of questioning like you say.

But not today, today the average user doesn't question the TLD anymore (as long as it's not one frequently associated with "scams" like .xyz) because there's just so many of them ranging from .io to .AI to .shop and .network

If I was proficient enough in Rust, I would have, or someone else would have long ago if it wasn't written in Rust

Rust isn't exactly a very popular language in open source right now due to its difficulty

They do not, Hex and Grad, yes. This is the current homepage of lemmy.ml, nothing indicates them being a Tankie Instance supporting Authoritarian regimes and their misinformation:

The spread of Russian propaganda and misinformation is in large part the reason for a lot of the right-wing BS. There's been articles and documentation of their Misinformation campaign for at least a decade now

"Russia, shit military, fantastic intelligence service" ~A lemming comment I read once but can't find again

We should not be a party to it's continuing spread

What censorship? I have documented evidence of .ml's rampant censorship

If .world is doing their own flavor then where's the receipts?

Also, .world doesn't need .ml, nobody needs .ml, they only have like 2 comms that don't have a non.ml variant that beats them in MAUs

Grad, Hex and .ml users have been known to have many alts to help spread their "message"

It doesn't work, on Lemmy block is nothing more than a mute, and the instance "block" (mute) does not even affect the individual users of an instance, just hides the comms of that instance from your view

Lemmy's "block" still leaves you open to all manner of brigading that they've been known to do

And it still allows conspiracy theories, propaganda and misinformation to spread and fester and affect users who are unaware

They literally have articles over there spreading the Russian propaganda that Putin is justified in invading Ukraine because it's "full of Nazis"

Besides this is the Threadiverse, there will always be an instance with wide federation if you as an individual choose to open yourself up to that kind of "content"

Lol, Tankies just simp for authoritarian regimes like Russia and NK that claim to be communistic.

If you want to pull people to your political side, then you can do so without relying on misinformation and conspiracy theories. Which is unfortunately not what the admins of .ml have chosen to do.

Is that supposed to be a negative? LOL

Be bigger than them. Probably sees your instance as some sort of threat. They always shit on the big instances, I've seen Hex users refer to SJW as "Shit Just Stinks" before and they were celebrating the .ee shutdown. They consider .world some sort of right-wing instance run as a CIA/fed psyop