You know, it’s like you’re walking through the forest, enjoying its beauty, and then you don’t notice how a hungry bear attacks you, even though you were warned about it.

What a shame, when the trap snaps it will be very painful…

  • oddlyqueer@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    Interesting. Didn’t know that this instance had that reputation. Is there anyone out there archiving and cataloguing removed posts / comments across instances? I’d be curious to see some data around this. Would be a fun NLP project to try to identify who might be running certain instances based on the ideological bent of their censorship interests. Could be fun to try to parse out state propagandists from the religious extremists, from the single-issue warriors, from the non-ideological power-trippers, etc.

    • Eldritch@piefed.worldEnglish
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      43 minutes ago

      To an extent. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] all document some. I don’t know that anyone is archiving en mass. It’s rather a moving target.

      It’s common enough that many, seeing someone posting from an ML automatically become irritated and combative. Which you can see here to an extent. Bad experiences with their instances and select users are pretty wide spread.

      As mentioned earlier, Lemmy got it’s start because it’s creators were so toxic they were banned from most other places. While many of us chose to leave reddit years ago as enshittification accelerated. Lemmy’s creators did it out of necessity. They couldn’t be kicked out of a place they ran, no matter how toxically they behave. They have been defederated /cut off from a decent chunk of the fediverse still. The only reason you were able to post here, is because Lemmy.ml being the flagship server/ Cess pool playground of the software’s developers. Is given some leeway. That and they didn’t brigade from that server specifically. They used the other two, hex and grad which are widely defederated because of it.