Can you explain why Lemmy.zip or Lemmy.cafe specifcaly?

With .ml you can sometimes still have a good discussion. Maybe because the community is so big. And not everyone who joins knows ml stands for Marxist-Leninist.

But those other 2 are chock full of extremists.

You mean the biggest instance that is still federated with close to everyone?

There is a reason for that you know.

I'm sorry but the best is dbzero. Lemm.ee was a damn good instance too though

Yeah, because they're the one that tries the most to be exactly like Reddit, so all the Redditors end up there.

.ml is basically federated with everyone

I hope you're not calling tankies radical socialists or communists. Because .ml et al are authoritarian instances, not lefty.

I'm tearing up

Thx for all the severing!

I think it adds to our mystique that not even our regulars can spell it correctly

The lemm.ee admin is a shit hot developer though, his instance was generally more robust than all the others, and he helped other instances when they had various problems. It's a shame he wasn't the lead lemmy developer, although I'm sure he doesn't have the time for such a big undertaking.

But those other 2 are chock full of extremists.

I always saw those two as something like far left indoctrination camps where people learn and practice astroturfing techniques.

Hey, we are aware - I've made a comment here: https://lemmy.zip/post/40323214/19304384

Tldr - try with a vpn!

NOoooooooo

lemm.ee has been hands down my favourite instance, it's genuinely depressing that it's going.

I interact regularly with "those ml" instances and don't meet any (or not many) of people like you describe. I do believe it's mostly rumors, propaganda, cherry picking and liberal prejudice against socialists.

Do you still know what is real? The principle behind freedom of speech is about hearing dissenting voices that might tell you a truth that the mainstream won't.

In case you're curious, I also believe "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" so I often support or at least not condemn countries like Russia or China or Iran in their fight against the authoritarian US Empire. I'm a realist, pacifist and materialist, we already know what the regime change sought by the US will do to the people in "shithole" countries.

Legal authorities operating in the host country will not be thrilled if you have an instance filled with csam, and all sane users will also want to be heavily distanced from it. The latter applies to any content widely deemed objectionable, not just to illegal material - which makes the motive for moderation pretty reasonable IMO. If the moderation for a instance doesn't suit the users, users and communities are free to move to an instance that better suits them, and this does happen. It's a strength of the fediverse.

To be fair, lemm.ee didn't really act as host to any major communities to begin with. So communities aren't really the loss here, and it could be that having at least a few big active communities on an instance is a key part of maintaining its long term viability.

Also, all the text posts and comments from lemm.ee will still remain on other instances. I'm sure the instance could also back up content, if the specific admin so desired to re-host.

I'm an .ee refugee. I just hope this stuff doesn't become the norm where instances get shut down

What do you think radical means in political contexts?

No joy, still tells me the JSON is malformed. Since I downloaded it from lemm.ee, I don't see how that's possible.

so interesting how hundreds of millions of leftists in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and other parts of the world (many of whom actually live in countries that had real, successful revolutions) are all apparently a bunch of idiots who don't realize they're being fooled, but the Westerners who have never had a successful socialist movement are the ones who truly understand the core of class struggle (and at the center of it all is "authoritarianism," a very real thing that definitely doesn't just describe the behavior of all states)