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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 24 Oct 2024
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Save your sanity and do Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmy.ml
Also perhaps block me if you strongly disagree with the above.
That instance's mods blocked me this morning lol.
The amount of people simping for Russia in that other thread is insane. Apparently calling Ukraine a country of Nazis is fine, but saying Russia is a dictatorship is not lmao.
If you see a tankie or pro Russia comment, 99% of the time it's a lemmy.ml poster
Hexgears and of course lemmygrad.ml are of the same kind
😄exactly! Phu, the brain gymnastics that those people are capable of is mind bending 🤣
Yeah, but most instances already defederated from them.
Can we see where someone is hosting a Lemmy (domain, insnace, thing?)
I guess, you got to check IP and see what country it belongs to, but if they use a VPS or VPN or both, you can’t really know where the person who manages the instance lives / operates.
Sometimes it is posted on the instance front page or about page.
Well I doubt it's Mali.
https://check-host.net/ip-info?host=lemmy.ml
France. Maybe. It's mostly guesswork, but gives the same location for hexbear.net.
It's mostly cosplay commies rather than actual Russians.
Yea I figured it's just a bunch of middle class kids who have the privilege of being online and complain. Also fuck Hexbear....all my homies hate Hexbear.
yep I got banned from there for simply stating that ukraine has a right to defend themselves after Modi called for "peace". Apparently absolute pacifism is only required from one side.
Some of us are actually normal
Yeah, when I created my Lemmy account I had to choose an instance before knowing anything about Lemmy yet. And .ml seemed like the default one to choose, given https://join-lemmy.org/ told me it is ran by the devs.
Oh well.
Similar story here tbh.
I see you, hang in there buddy!
Doesn't help if the admins think you're not. Which is why I had to relocate a community because of admin content meddling and instance users shitstorming in a waterglass.
I love it here as well 😁
Ee is cool, but your upload limits were crap.
Fair, but most of the time, photos that I post won’t get any better with more pixels anyway 😂
I throw a lot of low effort memes, so I need all the help I can get.
Seriously, the hexbears just moved one over to keep getting exposure.
Yesterday I accidentally commented in .ml and mentioned that voting third party in our current voting system is playing with fire to get a worse candidate in office. I was told I must therefore start a grassroots movement for ranked choice voting, because apparently I can't have an opinion without a movement.
Normally I let a few downvotes get under my skin more than I care to admit, but in this setting it was kind of a badge of honor. Honestly it was kind of "fun" to see what people were saying.
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improved my lemmy experience ten fold just blocking that instance.
I would encourage that, but if your instance doesn't defederate them you may have to go a bit farther since you'll still get replies from lemmy.ml users, as users are not blocked as part of this functionality. And that is by design, it's not meant to act as a replacement or alternative to defederation, it's meant to act as an alternative to blocking all communities on an instance.
This is about open-source being open. I'm a very non-tankie, and I think this is bad- though a bit better if its only people working for sanctioned companies.
Go look at the principles of open-source or free software as defined either by the OSI and the FSF and then come back when you find the one that says that Linus needs to violate US sanctions to keep employees of Russian companies in trusted roles within his project.
Also, what does this have to do with being tankie or not? Modern Russia is very openly not communist.
tell that to the mods of !worldnews@lemmy.ml who ban you for disagreeing with them.