Good job everyone blocking and boycotting .ml! It's having an effect, users are noticing and MAUs on their comms are falling! - Lemmy.World

And for anyone asking “Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]?” Here’s a quick recap: Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it’s off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!). If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the “Tankie Triad” (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they’ve positioned lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] as the “flagship” instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them. Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse’s overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that “They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit” I don’t know about you, but I’d prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse “Voat 2.0”. So if you haven’t joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse! You can take a look around here on [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] [https://sh.itjust.works/c/meanwhileongrad] for documentation of it or checkout this list of curated documentation On bans and censorships: https://lemmy.world/post/29490804 [https://lemmy.world/post/29490804] https://lemmy.world/post/29507466 [https://lemmy.world/post/29507466] https://lemmy.world/post/29878102 [https://lemmy.world/post/29878102] https://lemmy.world/post/29980157 [https://lemmy.world/post/29980157] https://lemm.ee/post/65494823 [https://lemm.ee/post/65494823] https://lemmy.world/post/28480760 [https://lemmy.world/post/28480760] https://lemmy.world/post/28481615 [https://lemmy.world/post/28481615] https://lemmy.world/post/28482147 [https://lemmy.world/post/28482147] https://lemmy.world/post/28480936 [https://lemmy.world/post/28480936] https://lemmy.world/post/28482273 [https://lemmy.world/post/28482273] https://lemmy.world/post/28481272 [https://lemmy.world/post/28481272] https://lemmy.world/post/28481064 [https://lemmy.world/post/28481064] https://lemmy.world/post/27674360 [https://lemmy.world/post/27674360] https://lemmy.world/post/27674117 [https://lemmy.world/post/27674117] https://lemmy.world/post/27673934 [https://lemmy.world/post/27673934] https://lemmy.world/post/27673724 [https://lemmy.world/post/27673724] https://lemmy.world/post/27577337 [https://lemmy.world/post/27577337] https://lemmy.world/post/27378634 [https://lemmy.world/post/27378634] https://lemmy.world/post/27346630 [https://lemmy.world/post/27346630] https://lemmy.world/post/27341283 [https://lemmy.world/post/27341283] https://lemmy.world/post/27288224 [https://lemmy.world/post/27288224] https://lemmy.world/post/27156418 [https://lemmy.world/post/27156418] https://lemmy.world/post/27054157 [https://lemmy.world/post/27054157] https://lemmy.world/post/27008261 [https://lemmy.world/post/27008261] Allowing altered headlines and permitting known propaganda outlets: https://lemmy.world/post/28275465 [https://lemmy.world/post/28275465] https://lemmy.world/post/27428838 [https://lemmy.world/post/27428838] https://lemmy.world/post/27416097 [https://lemmy.world/post/27416097] https://lemmy.world/post/27314050 [https://lemmy.world/post/27314050] https://lemmy.world/post/27288953 [https://lemmy.world/post/27288953] Spreading Russia talking points like the Ukraine invasion just being a “negotiating tactic” !https://lemmy.world/post/27012640 [https://lemmy.world/post/27012640] General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet: https://lemmy.world/post/27426510 [https://lemmy.world/post/27426510] Open declaration of support for Russia (direct from dessalines (head admin)) https://lemmy.world/post/27352415 [https://lemmy.world/post/27352415] “concentration camps were just reeducation camps and weren’t that bad” https://lemmy.world/post/26985447 [https://lemmy.world/post/26985447] "Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167 [https://lemmy.world/post/30580167] “The China censorship tool isnt actually censorship! And if it is, it’s actually a good thing a state has that much power!” ~Tankies of .ml https://lemmy.world/post/30010789 [https://lemmy.world/post/30010789] Rooting for Russia in the Russia-Ukraine war https://lemmy.world/post/29274763 [https://lemmy.world/post/29274763] Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 [https://lemmy.world/post/29222558] Update 6/1/2025 - adding additional links since original post