Dear Admins and Users of lemmy.world,

I am writing to express my concerns about the impact of lemmy.ml on our community. It has come to my attention that lemmy.ml frequently disseminates propaganda and engages in historical revisionism. Moreover, there have been instances where their admin privileges were used to suppress dissenting views, reminiscent of the already defederated lemmygrad instance.

While personal blocking of lemmy.ml is an option, it does not address the broader issue of new users potentially being influenced by misleading content. It is crucial that we protect our users from a continuous stream of biased information.

To illustrate these concerns, I have provided a link to a detailed post on the Fediverse that documents these issues comprehensively [Here].

Given these points, I urge the admins to consider a defederation from lemmy.ml. If their users wish to remain part of Lemmy.ml, that is entirely acceptable, but we should take steps to prevent the propagation of harmful misinformation, especially in their comment sections.

Thank you for your consideration.

  • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 years ago

    there are still many thriving, non-political communities hosted there

    And that, in fact, is my main concern with ml. They have lots of communties which are non-political for sure but, these communities come along with an assortment of lies and Propaganda. At which point the negative outweigh the positive?

    And even in the non-political Communities your comments gets censored when they are not on line with their views.

    • Kabe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      but, these communities come along with an assortment of lies and Propaganda.

      So block those individual communities that post what you consider propaganda. Hell, even block the whole instance - that option is readily available to you.

      At which point the negative outweigh the positive?

      With a server like, say, Hexbear, this would be an easy calculation. Defederate and what does the average user miss out on? Not a whole lot. On the other hand, .ml has a wide variety of technology, open source, gaming, hobby, etc. communities that don’t even touch on politics.

      I regularly visit many of them, so for me at least, it would take a lot more on the negative scale to even break even.

      • Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.worldOP
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        2 years ago

        For sure I can block them for myself (as I have mentioned in my Post itself) but this won’t solve the Problem of policing non political Communities and injecting them also with propaganda.