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  • IDK, this post says “GPT-5.3-min” which is not an open-weight model AFAIK.

    They claim it's not being used, it's really using a local model, which is inline with their anarchist ethos so I'm leaning towards believing that, and that the GPT reference is an in-joke. I do think it's unprofessional to write something like that, even as a joke, but it's not the first time I've seen unpaid mods make dumb mistakes like that.

    Specifically asking for political classification is a little bit weird though.

    Out of context, yes.

    In context, dbzer0 is an explicitly anarchist instance - the users of the instance have shared political values, and their instance rules ban certain politics (such as fascism) - so it's a legitimate part of the moderators' job there to assess politics and ban any which break their rules. Their users don't want to see certain politics.

  • YouTube's ad problem just got worse: Users now seeing 90-second unskippable ads!

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  • Adblockers have been mentioned a hundred times, as they should.

    Annual reminder to donate to Invidious too. YouTube has done some serious work to try and block most of the instances.

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  • Hopefully this one directly shoves the electons. I'm scared of society's DHMO dependency.

  • Just a friendly welcome post

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  • It seems to me like many have arrived from huge mainstream sites and don't realize that the fedi is actually pretty big. There are many thousands of us, just look at this community's stats alone!

    When you've explored beyond the core of the internet and found websites where there truly are dozens of you, it's much more calm and communal (or as screentime enthusiasts would call it, slow and ded). I actually was on Lemmy back when there were mere hundreds of us, when many were yearning for the day when reddit would shoot its own foot and bring people here. So I'm very grateful that there aren't dozens of us! Welcome!

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    Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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  • They fully support the Russian invasion

    wut? Even lemmygrad.ml doesn't - their support of the Russian Federation's invasion has always been critical, not full. Just like their support for Hamas is critical - it's extremely obvious that neither the capitalist-run RF nor the Islamist Hamas are groups they agree with at all.

    (I am not a campist, I'm simply explaining the campist concept of "critical support")

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  • Just ban everything and everyone you don’t agree with.

    They were specific about what they didn't agree with: Authoritarianism.

    And if they don't want to tolerate guests from an instance that allows Zionism, then good. Any feddit.org members who think their admins' permissiveness is tolerable are complicit in the promotion of Zionism, even if they aren't intentionally complicit. Yes, hanging around with pro-genocide people should earn punishment, such as ostracization until they stop hanging around pro-genocide people. It's a social media account on the Fediverse, switching isn't difficult.

    We did the same thing to Wolfballs, until their admin closed the instance because it was filled with literal neo-Nazis calling the admin a 'race-traitor'. Tolerating every belief is utopian, pointless and self-destructive.

  • Is it just me has there been a lot of Spam and abuse on Lemmy lately?

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  • If you have a bit of time, please collect evidence of when that targeting and harassment happens. I've already seen a few accounts using low-quality /c/MoG posts to try and demonize .ml, lemmygrad and hexbear so it's useful to have a post or posts to point to showing that it's a harassment circlejerk, not the credible spectators they pretend to be.

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  • First things first, I do not defend nutomic's ignorant transphobia. It's unfortunate to see how legitimate complaints about capitalist exploitation of trans issues (rainbow capitalism) can be wrongfully misdirected into reactionary anti-trans victim-blaming. Their personal writings on trans issues are harmful.

    And I don't think Lemmy really is defined by the politics of those instances anymore. Their politics are largely optional, especially now that many other instances have grown. These days, I see more red-scare posters than tankies, who regularly inflame off-topic instance drama whenever they see a username from one of the instances.

    The cm0002 compilation linked is a list of trolling strawman claims, many are either completely made up or shamelessly misframed. I'll pick a few representative ones to talk about, obviously there's too many to give proper attention to in one reply:

    • The first one: [Dessalines:] “Slava Ukraini” is considered a “Fascist slogan”: Yes, this is a true claim from cm0002 and a fair position from Desallines to hold: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Ukraini#Second_World_War . Openly-fascist groups like Azov Battalion maintain a strong presence in Ukrainian nationalism, so the preservation of this slogan isn't a historical oddity.
    • ^^ We also see cm0002 list another post of a user being banned for saying "Slava Ukraini", which cm0002 knows is considered by lemmy.ml staff as being a fascist slogan, but instead knowingly misframes the ban as "Showing support for Ukraine on .ml is worthy of a site ban", which simply isn't the case. fwiw, I do believe the two devs, in the busyness, do a terrible job of explaining their perspectives in ban messages, using quick messages like "orientalism" or "Rule 1" which will just puzzle someone who doesn't understand how what they said was offensive.
    • [Dessalines:] “The BBC is not a credible news source”: I don't unconditionally agree with that as a general statement, but in the context of some political topics, this is a fair position. They're a state-sponsored channel, and like all countries, the British state has biases too. Here is one case of MI5 state intervention into the BBC ongoing for over 50 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Christmas_tree"_files .
    • "[Davel:] Response to a valid report of “NK is actually good” as propaganda/misinfo": The report is right there to read, it's not claiming "misinfo". Spreading political beliefs is not against the rules of that community or the instance, why should it be? The point of thinking about politics is to improve the world. cm0002 just assumes saying some basic positive things about countries they don't like should be banned. That is a chauvinistic belief, and them posting about it this way is propaganda in itself. Yet we can assume someone reporting their post for propaganda would get a similarly dismissive reaction.
    • [Cowbee:] "Propaganda is good actually”: - and then you click on the link and now it's changed to the lesser strawman - "Propaganda can be good!"... cm0002 is, again, making false statements to fabricate an extreme position out of some pretty boring factual claims, and then points to them and says "Look at all this extremism!". Just look at the comments on that post, even they're saying Cowbee is right, and that's a politically-motivated circlejerk in a circlejerk community. cm0002 is inventing and exaggerating to create drama, and in my experience, drama spreaders are much more effective at driving people away than unpopular communities.

    As a side note, and I want to point out that that I'm commenting about media propaganda practices and not taking a side (I support the working class in both Ukraine and Russia, I would pop champagne if Putin and their friends were shot tonight, and the same goes for Russian mercenaries, the Azov fascists and the US vultures prolonging their proxy war at the expense of Ukrainian people), but it's always puzzled me that the phrase "illegal invasion" caught on. What the hell does a "legal invasion" look like? Laws are written by the victor, there is nothing inherently wrong with breaking law. 🏴‍☠️💿

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  • [This user claims to have blocked the instance I registered on, so I assume they won't read this]

    Lemmy is what it is because of the beliefs and values of instances like lemmy.ml. There have been many other attempts at creating reddit alternatives, decades of them, from voat to raddle. The lead developers have clear values which guided Lemmy into being a better platform than reddit and the other reddit-like forums - free-and-open source, anti-commercial, decentralized, and counter to the pro-US media hegemony. These are not incidental, values aren't a syncretic pick-and-choose buffet! They are a result of the socialist ideologies of the admins of each of those instances, and how they have been applied to material reality.

    And keep in mind that these instances aren't some outsider aberration, they were the three largest Lemmy instances until 2023, they remain large and popular, and host popular active communities frequented by users of many other instances.

    And while Zedestrian perceives lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad and Hexbear as problematic (and I have my criticisms of each of them), from my perspective, many of the big liberalist instances are far more problematic, tolerating right-wing bigots, allowing obvious pro-US think-tank propaganda accounts, and banning users from advocating for action (including, where necessary, violence) against the ruling class destroying us and our planet. That's a big reason why many left, for were banned from, reddit. Should lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works therefore be removed, for being problematically close to the harmful behaviors of reddit.com that many of us are trying to escape? That's a serious reputational liability too, it can drive users away if they can't find the places they want to join.

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  • Yep, I've also gotten responses pretty reliably from professional artists, including those I'd assumed would be far too busy to answer (including the directors and writers of famous tv shows).

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  • Are you looking for the Animal Smoothness Scale?

  • Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse

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  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • veterans, such as myself a former Navy Nuke Instructor

    A bit off-topic, have you heard either of the Wake-ups episodes[1][2] from the Eyes Left podcast? And if so, do they resonate with your experiences in the force?

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • I've willingly learned Calc (LibreOffice's open-source spreadsheet tool) because I've made spreadsheets for my own needs. But to "become employable"? No way.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Our cogs do not feel amplified.

  • [Help Design Lemmy] Joinlemmy website and New User Onboarding

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  • I think the description starts off too technical - "link aggregator" is correct, but not a term that many people know about. "Selfhosted" might even be lost on most people.

    Perhaps something more simple would help as a first introduction, there's plenty of opportunity for the more technical-minded to learn more. Maybe calling it a "network of content-sharing and discussion forums"? I'd love to put "decentralized" at the front, although I'm not sure how obvious that term is.

  • Lemmy's active userbase has been stable since September 2025

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  • On no level do most accusations of “sealioning” seem to hold up to scrutiny, in my opinion.

    Agreed. While I haven't seen many accusations of it, all the ones I've seen have been false. And like you said, Lemmy has sufficient moderation that I've never seen it happen here.

  • Do we need more users ?

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  • As for the title question:

    Do we need more users ?

    We don't need more users. It might be nice, there are benefits, but we don't need it. I agree with you on not caring much about growth-as-a-target, "growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell". I was here years before the first big reddit exodus with the third-party API changes and I was having a good time back then too.

  • New PieFed instance: MULTIVERSE

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  • I'm not a soulist like the user you replied to, but for another perspective, mine is that rights are imaginary constructs which mean nothing if unenforceable.

    People have some rights to not be murdered; that's not an opinion if we have a compatible definition of 'rights', it's written in law, it's ingrained into mainstream liberalist social norms and ethics. So the right exists as a social idea which sometimes manifests in real consequences. However:

    • I can get murdered by the government or law enforcement who proclaim to enforce my right to not be murdered! It's a conditional right, not the idealistic universal right it's often made out to be.
    • And there are some people who I wouldn't really care if they were murdered. I don't weep for Wnssolᴉuᴉ's lynching. I don't mind that Ken McElroy's murderers weren't charged. Sometimes we just don't have the luxury or power to go through the ideal routes of justice. And to be clear I also don't advocate for murder for a big long list of reasons, many of them are obvious. For example, I think the assassination of Brian Thompson was morally just and cathartic, it stopped an antisocial social murderer who would not have been held accountable by law, and the fear it created may feasibly have saved some lives of UHC customers in the short term, but ultimately I do not advocate for such adventurism as it's proven historically to do little to create long-term systemic improvements, and can easily go wrong and cause more damage than benefit, as we saw with the "golden age of Propaganda of the Deed".
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    I checked my backup hard drives

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    I made a ten-minute dinner in one pot

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    How much do some mega-expensive things cost?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    The rise of progressivism led corporations to misappropriate progressive values and language. How did this manifest before?

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    A retro pixel ceramic tile mosaic of Luigi

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    "Deny, Defend, Depose" mural

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    Shopfront Luigi Mural

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    An interesting question, any guesses?

  • Luigi Mangione @lemmy.ml
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    It really was incredible.