What exactly is lemmy.ml?

The hacker known as lemmy.ml is a highly dangerous individual.

And how would I block it?

Just pray 🙏.

The Network effect still affects Lemmy communities, unfortunately.

As opposed to Democrats who don't even try to run or often lose them themselves? AOC is the likely candidate they will endorse in 28. And she is a democrat. You really should give them a chance and try not to be so irrationally afraid of them. Unlike the Democrats they actually have policies and agenda that most people Democrat and otherwise like if you talk to them about it neutrally. Can't worry about the screaming McCarthyites. The screaming mccarthyites are going to scream communist no matter who gets nominated. And I think we all would like to have someone who stands for something unlike Harris who stands for nothing.

Their instance was already defederated from hexbear, so they never saw posts from there.

Democrats do pretty good when they have power and show me someone who saw the choice between Trump and Harris and decided not to vote and I'll show you a fool.

I'll pay attention to DSA when they start winning purple votes and I stand by that.

Why do you hang around .world so much if you don’t like it?

Answer: because, unfortunately, many of the most active communities are hosted on .world.

.ml opted out of lemvotes because they like to brigade posts and comments.

They make ML seem almost tame.

Because it's the same users, just in mask off mode.

While I appreciate the answer...

Part of the question involved who I was asking:

Every time I see people from a handful of the same instance always try to pivot any discussion of one of the other handful of instances back to a criticize of .world, I go look at their post history.

"It is what it is" and commenting where the people are makes perfect rational sense.

But...

I'm assuming you don't immediately try to turn any criticism against an instance whose politics you agree with, back on the mainstream instance.

If you did, then it wouldn't be rational to spend all your time here

I will need context on that.

Dunno if that's "on purpose". I think it's more, back in the day .ml was the defacto standard instance, so lots of average people went there and you'd find a wider bandwidth of people. That might have changed with some people leaving and the new visitors not signing up on .ml anymore. That makes the rest of the group condense to people who pick .ml on purpose. But that's not a deliberate plan, more how maths works. 😅

I think Lemmy is radicalizing.

It’s not just Lemmy.ml either. I used to love dbz0, almost switched from lemmy.world, but now all the non-political content is withering away, and most of what I see is just absolutist, anarchist post. The admin is fine with explicit calls to violence against pretty much anyone.

And that’s fine. It’s their instance, they can their thing. But it’s so extreme I don’t even find satisfaction interacting with the instance anymore, like it’s a single community with one topic.

And I don’t mean to single them out. I have similar feelings from many instances, including Lemmy.world.

I’ve even seen some pretty extreme stuff on blajah, which I used to picture as a wholesome LGBTQ+ instance! Which I adore… until it’s not so wholesome.

What’s worse, Lemmy users don’t seem to care.

I’ll point out some off-topic discussion in a thread, and I just get piled on. Like, not every single Lemmy conversation has to involve statements about western imperialism or the futility of democracy or whatever, but apparently it does on Lemmy.ml, and it feels like it’s spreading.

That was more of a rant than I intended.

But I am concerned about this new internet place I like. I’ve seen one or two other Reddit clones wither away from political radicalization, too.

Lemmy.ml was/is my first foray into the whole thing and the dogma/irrationality/hivemind has been really disheartening (for a community I had figured would filter people like that out due to its' size relative to reddit or other normal websites). Thanks for this, i'm going to try it.

ML is not far-left, it pretends to be in order to spread pro-Putin, pro-Russian, and pro-Republican state propaganda because they know it’s destroying America. ML and Russia are about as socialist as the Nazis claimed to be.

I don't know, if you ask me Biden's failure to prosecute Trump seems like a prime failure of action. One of far far too many. Which really goes to the core of the problem with current Democrat leadership. Promise very little deliver even less.

Not going to argue that the people that switched from Harris to Trump because of all the hubbub weren't fools. They certainly were. But they and the Bernie to Trump people are far more common and representative than informed educated voters.

That’s basically all the context.

There's absolutely a lot of that to be sure.

It didn’t help that in the four years the administration was trying to navigate the most complicated case the American justice system has ever seen the American public decided they didn’t give a shit and put him back into the white house.

Complexity is one thing. Merrick Garland not even attempting is another. I could be understanding of the complexity if they had even behaved as if it was serous or important. They didn't. And their failure to take it seriously along with the media's failure led to this.

"Saying this as someone who considers themselves a leftist"

Which country do you consider yourself a leftist in?

...thats literally what they did tho?

Jack Smith had a case built before trump got re-elected.

Like any community anywhere?

Unfortunately too little too late and Biden was too afraid to push it. Politics for far too long has been run on a gentleman's agreement. That one side has clearly not been honoring.

When you have a president pushing to jail his opponent it’s a delicate situation which was one of the reasons why it was the most complicated case in the judicial system’s history.

Another day, another .world user complaining about .ml users.

Usually the ones complaining are usually abrasive pro-US imperialist types.

I'm from the UK, so screw Russian and American foreign policy and those that shill for China make me nauseous. I'm on .ml from when .world couldn't keep their servers up. My main alt died with lemm.ee (RIP).

Ive blocked dozens of instances because i dont like them. Just do it and move on -- no, nobody else was getting tired of lemmy because the rest of us block instances and users we dont like and enjoy our experience instead.

Truly we should all just log off

I''m much more upset about the much more prevalent imperialist propaganda hyping up the right wing democrats as saviors and presenting Luke warm social democrats as radicals to either support or hate but you seem to be a fan of this overwhelming disgusting support on this site for racism and imperialism.

THERE IS ONLY THE US

;-)

You need to do that to make it even more of an american imperialist echo chamber then it already is.

Yeah but making a post about it is stupid, we're all blocking instances and users we don't like, it's like posting "tie your shoes if tripping on your laces feels tirening". Like what is this? a post for primary schoolers?

They are an imperialist who isn't against tankies but against opposition to oppression is the context.

It's just american imperialist upset they have any pushback.

More worried about the much more prevalent american imperialist support.

you know whats really annoying? u

Just use tesseract and have us all automatically blocked then if we're all scary radicals. I see you were defending admiral patrick a few weeks ago, surprised you aren't hiding behind it still. It's right there for anyone who needs everything sanitized and corporate approved for them.

Leftism and pro LGBTQIA comms are not radical, violent, or terroristic, and trying to suggest they are is going to get you shit on here. It's by design to keep the fash out. Lemmy is overwhelmingly a leftist space, and most leftists have no problem with telling it how it is, especially during the largest global resurgence in fascism since WWII.

At a certain point, if everyone around you is a problem, maybe you should consider the possibility that the source of your discomfort is much more localized.

I mean when i see a post i dont like i check the user history and instance history. If it's a long lost of similarly shitty posts i block one or both. If it's not, well everyone has bad days wcyd. I'm just surprised that the concept of blocking instances and users you dont like is such a popular new post today in august 2026.

I will definitely say that not all bad people come from .ml, and not all people from .ml are bad people… but there is defintely a noticeable correlation there.

You? Haven't noticed your username, but i'm bad at keeping up with names.

But it's funny that you talk about ".world users" whilc complaining about people talking about ".ml users".

But that sounds like it could be read as an attack, and I mean it jsut as an observation. Text is a difficult medium. :)

(It may be a legitimate observation on your part..... I just think it's still funny.)

I suspect they're complaining about this thread where OP is griping about it, not the fact that OP blocked the instance.

:shrug:

People are people and we all hate drama but we all participate in drama, so y'know... heh

we’re all blocking instances and users we don’t like

People commonly think that everybody else sort of thinks and acts the same way that they do. Sometimes it's that way, but a lot of the time it isn't. I didn't block a single instance until I think last week. (It was lemmy.ml, not too coincidentally.) That includes my six months on piefed, as well as the several years before that on lemmy.world. I had considered blocking them in the past, but it was only recently that several accounts from there started behaving super-aggressively to me.

I'm just reluctant to block entire instances because I feel like I'll miss out on something. But at this point, I think if you're still on lemmy.ml, then you're probably not somebody who I want to interact with. But that's because it's just famous for being tankies.

Okay just block them, and block everything else you dont want to see, idk yeah theyre a bunch of crazy wannabe communists, i agree we all agree, just block and move on, like what else is there? Doxx them? That makes no sense, right?

it's crazy people who are butthurt ivan drago lost in rocky iv, they're not worth your attention -- quite frankly this couldn't be a better advertisement for lemmy.mi or whatever it is. So i guess that's my rant, stop reacting with content you don't like. If something real and local to your geography is happening, yes, go to a protest, volunteer helping underserved communities. But if it's on freaking social media (federated or otherwise) just block and move on, dont feed into it. We don't even know what corner of the world they actually live in. Think about all the horrible people in the world in positions of power -- they all get tons of negative attention online and they harness that negative attention into real-world benefits for them.

sorry, didn't see your comment, I have you blocked

;-)

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Yep, tracks :)

No!

You stay logged in, defederated from everyone, having blocked everyone!

You sit in your little cubicle and stare at the wall!!!

:)

While I agree they aren't far left. They are sincerely more socialist than the Nazis were. The problem is, they are often as authoritarian as and group think vulnerable as maga, nazis, etc. Economics is fine. But it should never supersede or dictate social policy.

And all these heavily centralized States weather corporate or otherwise always fall to the same flaws. Power calcifying and protecting itself. Not the people or Society.

But what are your thoughts on western imperialism and the futility of democracy?

;-)

Under normal circumstances I'd agree. Under these circumstances it was a failure still.

My feeds pretty decent. I don't block instances outside of an accident. I block plenty of users and communities though and it works for me. Don't get me wrong the vast majority of my blocks is not that the communities are bad. just that its easier to block what your not interested in and peruse all than peruse subscribed if you want to find new things.