.ml is explicitly a restricted speech instance. It's a safe space for Tankies, not dissimilar to Nazi safe spaces. They don't and will never care about your good intended arguments.
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2025
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Fuck RT! Fuck Russia!
Is hardly a "good intentioned argument".
I didn't say this particular case was a good intentioned argument. You're not allowed to say fuck RT or fuck Russia on .ml is the main point.
Or anything that might insinuate that you disagree with Dear Leader.
Who cares?
No, seriously — we have upvotes and downvotes for a reason. Why are people not allowed to simply downvote the 'Fuck RT! Fuck Russia!' comments and move on?
Actually, for someone arguing in good faith, wouldn't these be perfect chances to provide examples of how 'Fuck RT! Fuck Russia!' is actually an incorrect perspective?
The answer is yes, it would be the perfect chance. The reason they choose to ban instead is because they're cultivating an echo chamber.
It's the correct response to state sponsored propaganda.
Tankies defending capitalist dictatorships, beautiful.
get back to work dessalines.
Is there any easy way to migrate from lemmy to piefed? Would rather spend my time and donations on sane devs working to improve their platform instead of curating their own personal propoganda fiefdom.
It is very easy. You just create an account on piefed and that's it.
There is an import function in piefed and an export in Lemmy, though it doesn't do comments/posts, just subs/blocks
Moving posts/comments to other sites isn't a thing in threadiverse. Especially if you're a regular user. However, migrating the content of Lemmy instance database to Piefed is apparently starting to look like a feasible thing and some Lemmy instances like slrpnk are exploring that possibility in the future.
What you can do is export your Lemmy subscriptions and import them on a Piefed instance.
I wanna know this too. I just migrate to lemmy zip not too long ago and looking to migrate off this platform altogether.
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Lmao
Wow so surprising
same thing on WorldNews (not to be confused with World News)
got banned for calling out a tankie for posting russian propaganda (apparantly the ukrainians are putting hits out on infants, specifically, you know. /s)
no warning, no explanation.i just said "yea sure, tankie" in response to a misinfo post, and then boom. banned.
checked the active mod who i WILL NAME.
ourtoothbrush
of course his comment history is jam packed with pro russian, pro putin, pro ccp content. denies genocides, work camps, the works.