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Anyone else banned from world news for criticizing China? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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So I made a comment on worldnews criticizing Chinese activity in the south china sea and apparently got banned for it by the automod. This happen to anyone else? Is this Lemmy's version of the need help post and the shape of things to come?

The instance I posted in was Lemmy.ml

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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 156 points 3 months ago

Lemmy.ml is a tankie instance that loves China and hates western countries. Unfortunately, it's also one of the biggest Lemmy instances because it's run by the main devs of Lemmy (who created Lemmy because they were frequently banned on other sites for bootlicking for China). Thankfully, Lemmy is open source and the nature of how it runs allows everyone to ignore the weird ideologies of the devs.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 38 points 3 months ago

It's one of the only 3 instances I block. All tankies bullshit.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 21 points 3 months ago

what are the other two?

I thought I was only blocking two but it seems I am blocking four

hexbear.net lemmy.ml alien.top lemmygrad.ml

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 10 points 3 months ago

You've got my 3. I don't know anything about alien.top.

[-] Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

alien.top is an instance that scrapes Reddit and mirrors posts and comments, creating bot accounts with the same username as the original poster. The intent was to make it easy for users to migrate away from Reddit (just claim the bot account with your username), but everyone pointed out the obvious ethical problems of mass plagiarizing and how nobody on Reddit can see any replies you make. It was also super spammy and 99℅ of the comments are from those scraper bots, so most instances defederated from them.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure that project ended after all the backlash.

[-] Baku@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago

I've got lemmit blocked for similar reasons. I don't really know much of it, but that lemmit bot was annoying me and I just sort of assumed the entire instance was probably just Reddit posts so blocked it

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Lemmynsfw is on my list too

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