Soon after I joined Lemmy a few years ago, I searched for communities based on my interests and subscribed to the ones with the highest numbers of users to ensure they are active. Sometimes I joined multiple, but then saw that some people post the same thing to more than one, cluttering my feed, so I left the smaller ones.
It's only after my community ban from !games@hexbear.net for disagreeing about Ukraine that I was told about MeanwhileOnGrad, learning exactly what "the tankie triad" means and why big Lemmy instances have defederated from those. Lemmy.ml, where the ML probably stands for Marxist-Leninist, seems to have been defederated by fewer, possibly because it's run by the creator of Lemmy, Dessalines. Nevertheless, there is evidence of Dessalines holding the same authoritarian communist views as the rest.
Recently, there were two posts on !privacy@lemmy.ml about Signal, but then in both cases, admin davel (who is known on MoG for seeing CIA's hand in running Ukraine, among other things) and Dessalines linked (1, 2, 3) the same article by Dessalines, which not only argues Signal could be a CIA honeypot (as if it matters when proper e2ee is used), but also manages to shoehorn China even into that, claiming its government "prefers autonomy". This sort of portrayal of totalitarianism as sovereignty is the reason I unsubscribed from the community. As it has been said by others, ML is not a neutral instance but a means of pushing authoritarian views onto unsuspecting users.
Edit: Made the post title clearer.
Because praise for China is to improve privacy? Is that a religious thing?
You post a lot about anti-communist material in a community about hating communists than fascists. Privacy is more important for the people the state dislikes, like anarchists and communists and socialists. Not those who the state benefits from, like hard-line anti-communists.
They get work for free from you, while you run away from the people who establish open source methods of communication to avoid the fascist puritanical states, that you seemingly prefer.
One post about authoritarian communists isn't a lot. The states those people praise only curb efforts to stay private. A common feature of totalitarianism is that it wants to control even people's private lives. Funnily, as I note in a different comment citing a blog linked by davel and others, the US, as authoritarian and fascist as it's getting, has funded great open source tools and protocols like Wireguard and Tor. Meanwhile the likes of Russia block them altogether, while the likes of China and Iran crack down even more.
You’re not gonna get good privacy advice from people whose lives aren’t threatened by the state.
I know you're quoting from the Hexbear thread again, which comes off as trolling, but I'll reply anyway for the sake of others. From what I know, Dessalines lives in the West and there's no threat to their life. Meanwhile the rest of Lemmy and PieFed includes people from all over the world.