There are a lot of tanky posts coming from lemmy.ml. Their whole purpose seems to be to troll and spread their bullshit far and wide. They are nearly as bad as the alt-right. They argue in bad faith and celebrate authoritarian oppression. The beehaw mods might want to consider defederating.

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[–] Radiant_sir_radiant 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Seconded, or thirded, or whatever. I've only just realized that lemmy.ml posts are the reason I've kept a healthy distance from this place during the last couple of weeks. Is that instance like a testbed / launchpad for China's latest trollbots?

[–] CTDummy@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Same, once I blocked it and hexbear lemmy went back to being a better version of reddit again. Substantially less shitpost and bad faith baiting.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You'd probably be better off going to an instance that defederates from those instances from the get-go.

[–] CTDummy@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I signed up before I understood lemmy. I was considering bitching to the fediverse community about it. It’s pretty unintuitive how this all works to an outsider. Given beehaws philosophy I was considering migrating there because of this thread tbh. I will consider it tho cheers.

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago

Tbf I think the new design of join-lemmy.org makes it easier to choose an instance, but it doesn't show what instances are defederated and such (it probably shouldn't either?). I think that's okay and you just have to learn what instance fits well for you over time.

After all, a big point of the Fediverse is cheap switching costs between platforms. Don't expect the first place you try to be the last place you try and don't be afraid of moving and trying somewhere else :)

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[–] eveninghere 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I wouldn't be surprised. The CCP is keen on building a ChatGPT style LLM on its own. Their traditional SNS is WeChat, which was a WhatsApp alternative, and thus was not as powerful as Reddit.

They are investing in Reddit alternatives I read, and they want these SNSes to be pro-CCP because that's how they'd enforce their LLM to be pro-CCP. .ml and the Lemmy code project itself would be a perfect example.