Due to the severity of the situation and the fast flowing news cycle, we have decided to create a general megathread for discussion regarding the conflict.

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  • fosho@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    apologies for the off topic, but this thread shows as 11 hours old and I only see 7 top level comments. for a major event mega thread I expected much more and I’m wondering if I’m doing Lemmy wrong somehow?

    • zerfuffle@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      lemmy.ca defederated from hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml, who are driving top-level comments on here. Since you can’t see the top-level comments, you also can’t see any discussion below.

      I opposed lemmy.ca’s decision to defederated from hexbear based on the perceived behaviour of hexbear users on other instances for exactly this reason: I think an instance’s role is to police the actions of users posting to that instance, not to police their users’ exposure to other instances.

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        1 year ago

        As a counterpoint, I don’t mind the hexbear and lemmygrad posts being hidden from view. These people have no interest in good faith arguments and instead derail every post into irrelevant arguments filled with half-truths or outright disinformation.

        Server instances deciding independently whether or not to defederate gives people the option to either use an instance where they won’t see this garbage or one where they do. Sounds like a win-win to me.

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          Damn hexbear and lemmygrad really became the new “commie”

          It’s really shone a light on how little the West actually understands communism tbh

          Y’all are talking past each other because you’re operating on entirely different assumptions about what the same words mean

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          These people have no interest in good faith arguments and instead derail every post into irrelevant arguments filled with half-truths or outright disinformation.

          I haven’t really seen any evidence of this and worldnews gets a lot of hexbear and lemmygrad posters. It just comes off as red-scaring to me.

          • CmdrShepard@lemmy.one
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            Well a lot of the rest of Lemmy have seen numerous examples of it which is why they keep getting defederated from instances. This being about communism is a red herring as the lemmy.ml is run by self-proclaimed communists.

            Furthermore, I rarely ever see hexbear users actually discussing communism or any other economic system. Typically it’s just ad hominem remarks about “the west,” strawman arguments, concern trolling as if they’re innocent victims, and carrying water for the Chinese and Russian governments.

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              Well a lot of the rest of Lemmy have seen numerous examples of it which is why they keep getting defederated from instances.

              NGL the users of the big instances that have defederated like .world are the majority of comments I have to delete here for overt racism, supporting genocide, etc. You can check the modlog if you dont believe me.

              I’m sorry, I dont really trust the opinion of the admins of instances overflowing with calls for violence and racism.

              This being about communism is a red herring as the lemmy.ml is run by self-proclaimed communists.

              I’ve seen the admins be called tankies by the same people complaining about hexbear and grad.

              Furthermore, I rarely ever see hexbear users actually discussing communism or any other economic system. Typically it’s just ad hominem remarks about “the west,” strawman arguments, concern trolling as if they’re innocent victims, and carrying water for the Chinese and Russian governments.

              Yeah this comes off to me as someone who had read a bunch of their comments with no background understanding of why the US empire is the largest purveyor of violence in the world today. I cannot blame them for not having the resources or authority to educate everyone they encounter.