The administration of lemmy.ml routinely abuses its rule 1 anti-bigotry policy to conduct political censorship, deleting documented facts regarding the ukraine invasion, holodomor, and xinjiang abuses under false pretexts of imperialist propaganda, misinformation, and nazism while leaving pro-Kremlin talking points untouched.

Verifiable public moderation logs prove this systemic shielding of state propaganda, down to moderators inverting standard geopolitical context, such as noting that fringe extremist units do not make an entire democratic nation fascist, to ban dissenters under the explicit excuse of being a Nazi.

https://lemmy.ml/modlog?page=1&actionType=All&userId=25800386 and https://lemmy.world/modlog/446?page=1&actionType=All&userId=20355358.

The Europe community moderator (https://lemmy.world/u/geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml), who focuses exclusively on criticizing the West and never Russia or China, banned me as a Nazi.

I decided to block the lemmy.ml instance entirely to avoid any further interaction.

I see that there are dozens of relevant posts; you can find the relevant report posts here

Log screenshots

  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.worldMEnglish
    31·
    4 hours ago

    The comments in this post are turning nasty and I’ve already banned two users for their behavior. Locked.

  • answersplease77@lemmy.worldEnglish
    83·
    7 hours ago

    Reminds me of some zio article I read lately that says in reality democrasy does not work in the middleast and that Israel is the only democrasy in the middleeast…etc ,… without mentioning that in reality the US steps in to slaughter every middleastern country the moment they try democrasy, and forces them to install a puppet dictatorship government that works for the intrests of israel and US.

  • STØERENFRIED@feddit.orgEnglish
    96·
    9 hours ago

    If you root for murderous authoritarian dictatorships just cause they are anti-west, you are not a leftist, you are not a tankie, you are a fascist and should be treated as such.

  • Rakonat@lemmy.worldEnglish
    84·
    10 hours ago

    The authoritarian bootlicker server is doing authoritarian bootlicker things? Shocked, I say. Shocked!

  • CptOblivius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    266·
    19 hours ago

    It is so blatantly obvious. Worse than the_donald was on reddit. Pure Chinese and Russia propaganda. Overtly negative on anything from the west and won’t allow anything negative about Russia, China, etc.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    19 hours ago

    The mods do whatever they want, many break their own posted rules with regularity.

    In my experience, in Lemmy they are more apt to delete a comment then ban, so that is nice.

    There’s no logic to it. I’ve said “The nation ___________ says this, their motto is ___________ … (and then repeat their own slogan from their own officials).”

    Delete. 100% true, easily verifiable everywhere, public information pertaining to the discussion, deleted.

    So, if you’re censored or banned, that just means that you’re a thinking person with reasonable opinions who bases your conclusions on the factual information available to you.

    It’s a good thing. Thank God.

    If they agree with you, please get help immediately. Time is short.

  • cygon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    8 hours ago

    I’ve been hoping that .world would defederate from .ml for a long time. I’ve become a lurker precisely because of this.

    We already defederate from alt-right and freeze-peach servers. If a server is overwhelmingly populated by fascist collaborators (call them tankies, if you will, but that’s what they do), why feature their memes and users on the front page?

    It’s like we still haven’t learned from the “GamerGate” days - people claim that judging their movement/forum is unjustified because there’s no vetting or membership card. But if you join a movement primarily known to be a reactionary harassment group, be ready for people to assume the worst.

    And no, my personal block list isn’t good enough. This is a systemic issue. Hiding the primary propaganda just to then perversely receive it through the changing opinions of people around me isn’t good enough.

    • Test_Tickles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Since there’s no way to stop someone from just opening another account elsewhere, blocking the entire thing would just scatter them like smashing one roach will scatter the others.

  • 13igtyme@startrek.websiteEnglish
    131·
    19 hours ago

    I’ve blocked all .lm instances and even now piefed. The creator or piefed bans anyone who criticizes his dumb ass decisions. Well that’s fine, there a reason the entirety of piefed as a software has been decreasing population.

    Also there are occasional mods that just love to jerk themselves. The dumb taco truck mod on the Star Trek instance will ban you if you say you don’t like new Star Trek, but that dumbass just moderates two mostly dead communities, so it’s okay

  • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
    174·
    18 hours ago

    I’m just a user here but three days ago I was banned from some community without any explanation. Some moderator accused me of being a rapist because of one comment that they deleted and no one could read. After some comments trying to find out what was happening, I was banned. I didn’t see before, but in that community, in the blahaj something instance, they warn something like ‘no tankies’. I’m in lemmy.ml, and I guess that makes me a tankie.

    These instance wars are bullshit.

    • starik@lemmy.todayEnglish
      86·
      20 hours ago

      Did you randomly join Lemmy.ml without knowing what it was? If so, that sucks. If you’re not too attached to your account, you could just create a new one on Lemmy.today or something and be rid of the ml baggage.

      • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
        83·
        14 hours ago

        I mean when I joined .world I didn’t know it was going to be a neoliberal smorgasbord. I just stick around due to laziness mostly.

      • ltxrtquq@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        19 hours ago

        Yeah, but inertia. And you want me to join an instance with a slight blue tinge? Are you mad? I’ll just stay where I’m at and sort by all communities.

  • nullspace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    297·
    1 day ago

    It’s basically a rite of passage for a new lemmy user to get banned from half of .ml for a completely mundane comment they made.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
      76·
      9 hours ago

      .world loves feudposting though. They keep making alt accounts to call everyone tankies and Russian propagandists on .ml and then make posts like this when they get banned for insulting users.

    • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      125·
      21 hours ago

      So you went into a community, you made a bunch of posts that are literally against the rules of the community and frankly the tone of the posts are antithetical to the point of the community. It’s called late stage capitalism. What did you think they thought?

      This is straight up troll Behavior. I would have banned you too.

      • jpreston1986@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        20 hours ago

        A bunch of posts? I wrote a conversation provoking comment that was upvoted far more than downvoted, and spurred other comments.

        it was removed because the mod has an anti-democratic agenda that they can’t defend. Instead they just remove comments and ban people. It’s shitty behavior by a shitty mod, and deserves to be called out. I’ve seen 2 other threads talking about this exact behavior.

        • njm1314@lemmy.worldEnglish
          101·
          19 hours ago

          Thought-provoking comment, my goodness. Isn’t there a cookie you’re supposed to be beating off onto somewhere.

          Your comments were directly and obviously against the rules of the community. You went there to troll. I don’t know why you’re lying about it.