For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
Please tell us! I personally have no idea
There’s some accusations of bias / pro CCP moderation on .ml
There’s some stuff about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36255366
But I haven’t directly experienced any of this myself so I can’t speak to the truth of it. Idk.
The ml stands for Marxism-Leninism. They are tankies.
ml is the Internet country code top-level domain(ccTLD) for Mali.
Well the folks over at .ml aren’t from Mali or host their server there.
This is completely untrue and I don’t know why people keep repeating this.
Because people with the @lemmy.ml tag are constantly saying the dumbest tankie shit ever.
When I see someone say Ukraine in 2014 was a CIA backed coup against the democratically elected pro russian government - it comes from that server, every time
Lemmygrad is worse actually, but most instances defederate from them
Lemmy.ml used to be the biggest instance and absolutely full of pro-russia people and shit (Lemmy was in general, lemmygrad was the second biggest instance behind ml) so it wouldn’t suprise me
The lead developers of Lemmy. They also develop the mobile Lemmy app Jerboa (personally, not my first choice).
What’s wrong with Jerboa? Probably the only app I’d use for Lemmy.