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[–] [email protected] 76 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Who, you know, MIGHT be real people but probably aren’t for the most part..

I just assume any .ml account is a propaganda bot. Because even if they are real people.. they are propaganda bots.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Lemmy is far too small to bot.
lemmy.ml is just friendly to those people, so it attracts them.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

lemmy.ml was built by those people, sometimes it feels for the express purpose of spreading their bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, how dare they build a space where they could express their views!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Go back to reddit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's plausible.

Lemmy.ml only has ~2100 monthly active users. I would guess that likely at least half of them are randos who just joined what they thought was the default instance.

That leaves about 1000 or so (likely even less) active tankies. That's not a lot of people. I'm pretty sure you could find more than that amount of tankies in pretty much every single metropolis worldwide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If its only a thousand people, can we just ignore them then.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Currently, Lemmy only has 46 000 monthly active accounts in total, so 1 000 is quite a significant share of that. Especially considering that these 1000 are very vocal.

Remember, this is not Reddit or Facebook with billions of active users. Lemmy in its entirety is smaller than some phpbb forums used to be.

I mean, ~3500 of these monthly active accounts are from lemmynsfw.com alone, and these are most likely double accounts for people who have accounts on a non-nsfw instance. And in general it's quite likely the the amount of monthly active accounts is much larger than the number of actual monthly active users, considering that a significant portion of users will have more than one lemmy account and that there are some moderation bots and stuff like that around.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

If you're not a tankie, you shouldn't be offended by, "tankies on .ml"

That instance actively and demonstrably moderates counter-opinions to tankie rhetoric, to the point where the instance is just a field of landmines for those that don't tow the line. They are a terrible, gross farse of "leftists" and deserve all the shit they catch and more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Irrelevant to the comment. My comment is clearly and explicitly about .ml. That's why I said .ml Thank you for further demonstrating the level of user .ml gives the rest of us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but your description was far accurate at describing .world.

Thanks again for demonstrating that, with .world, every accusation is a confession

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Your projection only makes you and your instance more pathetic by the post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Your accusations continue to be confessions

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I was objecting to this part

I just assume any .ml account is a propaganda bot. Because even if they are real people… they are propaganda bots.

Of course there are tankies on ML, though i gotta admit I rarely see them with my filters.

Plenty of hate-filled accounts on world that I block too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

.ml literally has news that blessed oblast of Ukraine has denazified itself completely by genociding all ukranians under the saving arm of blessed putin.

At this point you're either a piece of shit or completely new who got tricked into the alt left pipeline if you are still on ,ml. If hanging out with nazis makes you a nazis, hanging out with palette swapped nazis makes you a palette swapped nazi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I dont get that shit in my feeds man, maybe block the subs that are giving you grief instead of lashing out at random users

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

It's because it doesn't exist and they're lying

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

.ml users are putinist scum until proven otherwise. Simple as.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Right, and all Apple users are salivating corporate shills for big corp because they haven't jumped to better alternatives.... come on man, grow up, no one thinks so black and white, life is a complex grey and it helps to always remember the individual

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Im not gonna waste time filtering individuals from tankie instance on tankie reddit. If you don't want to be lumped in with tankies, i suggest you get rid of the figurative the hammer and cycle at the end of your user name. After all you are the one on the instance where apologizing for genocide and mass murder is not only allowed but encouraged.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think at this point it might be healthy if we simply block each other, take care out there stranger.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

All the best to you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

.worlder describes .world

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

You're a pedophile until proven otherwise. Simple as.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

It must be so easy being right wing, you can just make up any old bullshit you like and people will believe you

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Anything's possible when you make shit up kiddo

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

They're robots, Morty, I don't respect them

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago

maybe some whackos online

Checks out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm just kinda here, idk wth the rest of the instance is up to

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

in my experience, every tankie I came across is from .ml, not saying every .ml user is a tankie, but every tankie is a .ml user.