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A thread "Please don't use Lemmy :( Human rights, oppression" on Mastodon (mstdn.social)

submitted 3 years ago by the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Please don't put any hate comments against the developers of lemmy or against the person who posted this.

I am also unhappy about what the main lemmy instance is doing.

What are your thoughts?

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[–] onyx@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 children)

FediTips and the commenters in that thread make some good points. The fact that this Lemmy instance federates with Lemmygrad (which, if you look at the front page, is full of denialism about the Uyghur genocide) is an atrocity.

And yes, https://lemmy.ml/modlog does indeed have some questionable entries, such as:

Removed Community conservatives reason: No conservative communities
Removed Community Libertarian, in the pursuit of a free society reason: No conservative communities allowed
Removed Community Conservatism reason: No conservative subs allowed

I created the Conservatism community, not knowing that Lemmy (lemmy.ml) became a leftist instance. (Lemmy was not explicitly leftist when I made my account in July 2020. Look at this archive of the front page from November 2020, which does not include the word leftist in the sidebar.) Fine, whatever. But, removing the Libertarian community with the rationale "No conservative communities allowed"? I don't understand that. That's not even politically accurate.

[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 years ago

Wikipedia is not a source bruh. In the introductory paragraph on the uyghur genocide article they say that thousands of mosques have been destroyed... But don't mention they have been rebuilt to accommodate more people or because they weren't up to code. There are more mosques in Xinjiang alone in 2021 than there are in all of Europe lol.

Wikipedia has a clear agenda and this is clear from looking at their board of directors and demographics. They are not a source and neither are their sources - - they are carefully curated to offer a specific analysis.