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This is all just what I remember from research years ago, but at one point there was a pretty large chunk of nazis/sympathizers in azov specifically. They cracked down on extremism since then, but it's conceivable there's a few left.

Now using that to call every single Ukrainian servicemember and child a nazi to justify actual imperialism? Average braindead tankie take.

Directly. Numatic clearly said donations go directly to funding .ml since it's used for testing updates.

i’m so glad piefed is picking up steam! once voyager support is good i’m done with lemmy and donating to piefed

This is also why people think Lemmy is nothing but tankies because they're ok with that image.

Which is why I advocate for pushing large instances, like .world, to defederate as they have for the other 2 instances in the Triad

We can't force .ml offline and we can't force them to install an actually unbiased and fair admin team.

But we can control our association with them, if the rest of the network defeds from them at the very least we can all say "yea they're there, but we've cut ourselves off from them because they're nuts" and I think that could go very far

I recommended to people to go to Lemmy, and then I got told "you mean the place where it is full of tankies?" Tankies give the entire community a bad name.

Tankies have always regurgitated Putin propaganda.

I don't remember a time where they attempted to pretend. It's just recently they started getting heavy with the site wide bans though.

It's mostly the exact same people as the rest of the triad, they just keep their masks on a little bit better when they're on .ml.

dessalines upvoted it

Unfortunately, the "block" isn't really a block on Lemmy, it's barely a mute and that goes for user and instance blocks. Because dessalines refuses to implement a proper system (unsurprisingly). It's been 4 years since "blocks" rolled out

In any case it still allows their toxicity and misinformation to spread, trolling new users who come here unaware of the need to block and such

Really, the best answer is to call for wide defederation like the rest of the Tankie Triad is treated

It gives them more strenghts. The same happened with /thedonald.