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Let's not paint Lemmy as a whole based on .ml. It is, notoriously, the dumpsterfire of the Fediverse.

Edit: Like minded people sharing and discussing is not an echochamber, at least until you start excluding good faith points of view because they challenge your beliefs.

Ignoring, downvoting and censoring bad faith rhetoric, like most of .ml, or US Maga, Russian agitprop, Chinese propaganda and similar dis/misinformation is perfectly reasonable and logical. Same goes for domestically produced bullshit.

Another day, another user gets turned on to the culture over at .ml

You don't have to interact with them if you don't want to.

Lemmy is a neutral, open-minded, safe community?

A community cannot both be neutral and safe. Being safe involves picking a side and pushing back against harmful shit. Being neutral involves letting the harmful shit slide, as long as it's hate presented in a civil and polite fashion.

Which is to say, I have absolutely zero interest in a "neutral" community.

There's a reason why .ml is defederated of many instances and so many other people have the whole instance blocked. They are... not the best of the fediverse.

Lemmy is pretty tolerant compared to Reddit. Having said that, .ml is a tankie hellscape that is the lefts version of maga.

I think your missing the point of federation. If some place is crappy or you feel its run by crappy folks you can go to another or start your own. You could sorta do that on reddit but ultimately it went to a single authority. Whats nice here is I can hang or places or not. This gets back to my big thing. Blocking. Instances should avoid blocking and such as much as possible but users should do it liberally. This piss you off. Block the community so you don't accidentally engage with it in future. We literally can make the experience we want and the whole. you will put yourself in a bubble thing. thats fine. I put myself in a bubble any time I decide to hang out in place or folks in the real world or avoid places and folks. im fine with that. When the internet was smaller and not so full of trump it was maybe I wanted to see everything but now Im more looking to avoid the trumpy trump that is all over the place.

So, yeah, like everyone said .ml is horrific. Anyone I've blocked has been from there. I still haven't blocked the instance and dont plant to. .world and every other instance I've seen is absolutely a left wing echo chamber. There isn't really any conservative thought/speech here. Which is fine by me because I hear enough of that shit from my coworkers. It's really just a scale of how far left/communist/anarchist/extremist they go. .ml is comprised almost exclusively of the lattermost but the rest are a mix. I'm a liberal so I don't mind but I do recognize only one side has a seat at the table here.

Fantasizing about participating in a war is pretty shitty, regardless of whether or not non-human targets exist. You could fantasize about winning a drone racing or stunt competition to surprise people with your skill instead and look way less psychopathic.

This question is hard to answer considering how low interactions with Lemmy.ml we try to have. The only good thing is that we can legally start mocking them with loosing a war in Ukraine once it is over.

(a) In all seriousness, people, unless you're specifically into that sort of thing, just don't use lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net, or lemmy.ml communities. Going there, having a bad time, and then coming back and reporting on other instances how much things suck there just wastes your time and wastes the time of people who are already avoiding those instances.

(b) If you specifically want to complain about conditions there, there's a whole community dedicated to that, !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works. Or if you want to complain specifically about moderator/admin actions, !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com.

Here's me just chilling in the fun parts of Lemmy oblivious to whatever the fuck that shit is in those screenshots lol

You're right about the bias.

I propose you look for an instance that does not federate with .ml

Upvote system pushes up the main opinion, so yeah... echo chamber effect is expected