Remembering to look for and ignore folks with that telltale indicator has made the fediverse so much more enjoyable.

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    You’d be hard pressed to find many on the fediverse that aren’t some flavor of leftist.

    But yes. A lot of instances defederated from the .ml ones for the same reasons ml were generally blocked and banned from similar sites in the past. Which ironically led to the start of Lemmy and the link aggregation portion of the fediverse in the first place.

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      9 days ago

      A lot of instances defederated from the .ml ones

      Last time I checked, infosec.pub was the only instance of any nontrivial size (319 users / month) that was defederated from lemmy.ml.

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        There’s a push recently on lemmy to make people think that .ml instance is unpopular, it’s user wrong and you should leave it or be ostracized.

        This is the nth post about it I’ve seen in the past few months.

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          9 days ago

          I haven’t noticed a recent uptick myself, but the usual suspects have been pushing that narrative for years.

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        No, it does not. That’s just a popular way for MLs to disregard any opinion they don’t like. “Liberal” is to online MLs as “woke” is to conservatives. The Fediverse is packed with Anarchists, Socialists, Communists, and Leftists that don’t fit neatly into a category and that’s not even arguing about whether social democrats and democratic socialists count.