This is what the admins of .ml cultivate, as documented in the megathread

Credible sources removed just within the last day: https://lemmy.world/post/32298242 https://lemmy.world/post/32426343

.ml is not much different than the rest of the Triad, continued federation with them is continuing to allow them to spread toxic misinformation and behavior across the Threadiverse.

If you’re an instance admin, please consider defederation.

Users, consider joining the lemmy.ml boycott today and help foster a better Lemmy-verse! No more posts, comments (except to counter their propaganda ofc!) or upvotes on any comms on the Lemmy.ml instance.

Other wonderful content, and this is just from when I looked at the local new feed a bit ago:

Classic RT I’m sure you all know and Pravda.ru “Pravda Report”

  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    37
    arrow-down
    9
    ·
    6 days ago

    PLEASE defederate from the tankies. They should have to suffer through engaging with the real world if they want to engage with all of Lemmy, and not have a whole damn instance astroturfing their propaganda to everyone else.

    Yes, it is that bad. They literally ban and block anyone who says Russia/China bad, even for wholly valid and factual reasons.

    • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      8 hours ago

      Defeferate from the rabid zionist neolibs first. Theyre just as bad and shit is overcentralized on their .world server, so yhry can use it as a shield.

      Edit: and now that public opinion is seriously turning on both things, theyre trying to get people to defed the next largest server. Correct me if im wrong about size rankings.

    • Kairos
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      6 days ago

      Actually that last paragraph isn’t wholly true. I did so and they followed me around to harass me.

      • Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        edit-2
        6 days ago

        I did so and they followed me around to harass me.

        lmao, that sounds fun!

        Russia and China fucking suck! Come get me, keyboard slaves! Pooh-bear demands it!

        Remember, if it ain’t Ukrainian, it ain’t vodka.

            • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              8 hours ago

              A lot of this push started at about the same time a day or two ago. Suspicious timing; start of the work week

              Right after zionist genocide and bluemaga started taking serious PR hits to the point that .world’s overcentralization isn’t shielding those vile fucking positions anymore.

              What changed or what unusually shitty thing did .ml do in the past week? Im not sure this is about .ml’s behavior; i think they’re just the next largest instance and differently aligned.

      • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        6 days ago

        I got added to someones downvote bot after arguing with tankies from my .ml account.

        Found out who it was and threatened to do it back and it stopped though

        • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          8 hours ago

          .world does it too, try opposing zionism or blue-maga bullshit. Indistinguishable reaction from going to a tankie server then posting a video of yourself at lenin’s grave with a shovel and a strap on.

          • PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            3
            ·
            edit-2
            6 days ago

            It’s hard to tell as a user. You need to ask someone with direct access to a federated lemmy db to look it up for you. they can see who upvoted and who downvoted who with a custom query.

            I do not have direct access to a federated lemmy DB at the mo

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        edit-2
        8 hours ago

        See a lot of .world users saying this. You realize your dog shit server is worse, right? And more rabid about the genocide?

        Edit: and now that people are starting to turn on zionism and bluemaga, your server is pushing others to defed the next largest server. You may not be a conscious conspirator, but take a closer look. A lot of this push started at the same time.

  • Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    12
    arrow-down
    3
    ·
    6 days ago

    I sort by new and there are not a whole lot of posts on lemmy every day, but if this is bothering you that much I would recommend blocking the instance. The posts you are showing of this user aren’t even popular and get heavily downvoted.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      15
      arrow-down
      7
      ·
      6 days ago

      Instance blocks are nothing more than a comm mute, even if it worked as one would expect, it does nothing to stop them from spreading their toxic misinformation and propaganda to unknowing new users.

      And downvoting to oblivion is not something to be relied upon, IME only obvious ones get downvoted like RT or ones with headlines like “UKRAINE WILL FAIL SOON SUPERIOR RUSSIA…”

      Subtler disinformation, from lesser known sources, can still end up with positive upvotes and is just as dangerous

    • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      arrow-down
      5
      ·
      6 days ago

      A voice of reason drowned out by a red scare.

      Here we cherry pick unpopular posts and gripe about pro-west news censored. But I think it would be also fun to cherry pick some pro genocide from world, posts that are unpopular too, and gripe about how Chinese news is censored.

      Double the fun! Yes?

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        2
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        9 hours ago

        Lotta .world’s pushing to defed .ml recently.

        Its really sudden. And i fucking hate those people. And yeah; .world is saturated with zionists, bluemaga. They really are in a glass house, relying on overcentralization to shield them.

        Isn’t .ml the next largest instance?

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comM
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    10
    arrow-down
    19
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    This irony is pretty thick. OP is crying about propaganda while promoting overt imperial propaganda (radio free europe, etc.). Libs and tankies are the same damn thing with different imperial branding. That’s all that this is.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      6
      arrow-down
      12
      ·
      6 days ago

      Radio Free [Region] is a perfectly credible news source that does a fair job of minimizing bias

      In any case, bias != Mis/Disinformation. They’re vastly different beasts. One just tries to subtly write things in a way that makes the reader favor their position the other is just straight lies and made up conspiracy theories to force a certain narrative among the populace

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        9 hours ago

        Dude, we arent shitlibs. World can defed from the next largest instance if it wants, but we see what you’re up to.

        Now that your size is no longer working to shield your server’s support of genocidal zionist terrorism and insane bluemaga bullshit, you’re working agInst the next largest server, which is only like 60% less vicious and bullshit (not praise for the tankies here) but differently aligned.

      • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        7
        ·
        edit-2
        6 days ago

        To anyone reading this except OP:

        This is such a fucking obvious troll it hurts omg. Radio Free [Region] is literally a mouthpiece of blatant western imperialist misinformation.

        This person == 🤡🤡🤡

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          10
          ·
          edit-2
          6 days ago

          Radio Free [Region] is literally a mouthpiece of blatant western imperialist

          Ok prove it then, surely something so widely known and “blatant” to be an outlet for misinformation would have numerous online, credible, sources with their evidence

          • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            11
            arrow-down
            4
            ·
            6 days ago

            Radio Liberty was literally initiated by the CIA and has been controlled by the “United States Agency for Global Media” since it was privatised, please look it up…

            Even fucking Wikipedia has it listed in the first 3 paragraphs

            • cm0002@lemmy.worldOP
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              10
              ·
              edit-2
              6 days ago

              Lol, I already have

              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:RFE/RL

              Additional considerations apply to the use of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). RFE/RL should be used cautiously, if at all, for reporting published from the 1950s to the early 1970s, when RFE/RL had a documented relationship with the CIA.

              RFE/RL may be biased in some subject areas (particularly through omission of relevant, countervailing facts), and in those areas, it should be attributed in the article body. There is no consensus as to what subject areas require attribution. The scope of topics requiring attribution of RFE/RL should be decided on a case-by-case basis.

              It hasn’t been true for some time now and is generally found to be credible and fairly unbiased and RFA is seen in even a more positive light:

              Radio Free Asia can be generally considered a reliable source. In particularly geopolitically charged areas, attribution of its point of view and funding by the U.S. government may be appropriate. Per the result of a 2021 RfC, editors have established that there is little reason to think RFA demonstrates some systematic inaccuracy, unreliability, or level of government co-option that precludes its use.

              And MBFC:

              In contrast this is what RT looks like:

              • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                1
                ·
                8 hours ago

                Oh. We cant prove they are. Then it must be fine; the cia would never hide things from or try to influence us. They even gave my grandpa both free lsd and free cocaine, in various decades. Theyre good people. We can trust when they say they’re not involved.

              • Jack@slrpnk.net
                link
                fedilink
                arrow-up
                10
                arrow-down
                5
                ·
                6 days ago

                I love how you point to this media bias site like it’s the gospel. Have you considered thinking by yourself for once?

        • PugJesus@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          5 days ago

          In a roundtable carried by Uzbek TV on 18 March, three Uzbek political commentators made the case for war by claiming to have concrete information that Baghdad possessed weapons of mass destruction and had direct links with terrorists. “It is a well-known fact that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction. Its Al-Sumud and Al-Fatah ballistic missiles are capable of causing unspeakable disaster for humankind. Just imagine this dictator and despot, Saddam Hussein, passing on such weapons to Osama bin Laden or his henchmen!” said one Qobilbek Karimbekov. He continued: “It is Saddam Hussein’s regime that is currently sheltering those members of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda who fled Afghanistan… Incidentally, there is ample proof that dozens of suicide bombers in the Middle East are receiving financial aid from Iraq.”

          Golly gee I can’t believe a news source would quote Central Asian commentators when discussing Central Asian politics towards Iraq. It’s a good thing no one would be intellectually bankrupt enough to try to take that out of context and claim the news source was trying to push that point themselves.