I know you’re quoting from the Hexbear thread again, which comes off as trolling, but I’ll reply anyway for the sake of others. From what I know, Dessalines lives in the West and there’s no threat to their life. Meanwhile the rest of Lemmy and PieFed includes people from all over the world.

There’s been an uptick of downvotes and new users leaving critical comments since the Hexbear thread linking this one. Though Hexbear is defederated from .world, I’m pretty sure that if you examine the downvotes, you’re going to find barely active alt accounts of users from Hexbear. There’s one who literally quoted a point from that thread.

Edit: Also of note is that after they made that thread, they revisited the Ukraine thread from 10 months ago and removed my comments individually to make them harder to access. They know no reasonable person reading them is going to come to their conclusion that I’m a “fascist sympathizer” for essentially siding with Ukraine. Thankfully, they have no control over the Web Archive version also found at the OP link.

Fixed indeed! Thank you. Lemmy.zip is finally usable again and I can return to Boost from Summit. Writing this from Boost.

One post about authoritarian communists isn’t a lot. The states those people praise only curb efforts to stay private. A common feature of totalitarianism is that it wants to control even people’s private lives. Funnily, as I note in a different comment citing a blog linked by davel and others, the US, as authoritarian and fascist as it’s getting, has funded great open source tools and protocols like Wireguard and Tor. Meanwhile the likes of Russia block them altogether, while the likes of China and Iran crack down even more.

Because praise for China is to improve privacy? Is that a religious thing?

Funnily, it’s the same blog as the one from davel about Ukraine being run by the CIA. It’s around the same points as Dessalines’s article: the OTF, Radio Free Asia, and the CIA.

Edit: I love the “examples of tools supported by OTF”. The list includes Lantern, Psiphon (both used to fight censorship in authoritarian countries), WireGuard, Mailvelope, Tor, Tails, F-Droid, and K-9 Mail. Beware of those products supported by the US government!

Edit 2: And as one would expect, the program in question was among the DOGE cuts last year. Authoritarians think alike?

I believe that’s from .zip rather than Voyager. When I joined, there were no blocks, but one or more of the triad were later added as a soft block via default user settings, as opposed to defederation.

I can see that thread in the mod log (which is public here on Lemmy). Your comment they removed was

Aw the mewling wittle baby is in love. I actually don’t use signal, but nice try. I do know a fair deal about the obscene income inequality and disparity in non-profits though.

Indeed, you were responding to a condescending comment in a manner that’s also snarky, but as a long-time moderator of big communities, I don’t think that warranted a ban, or at least an action that affected only you but not the instigator. However, it’s worth noting that their rule 2, which was among the cited rules, is incredibly permissive (and widely abused, as seen on MoG), basically allowing to ban for anything at a mod’s discretion and making the rest of the rules redundant.

I hope you stay on the Fediverse one way or another. Its power is that even if you clash with any of the staff or even the Lemmy maintainers themselves, there are always other instances or even PieFed to replace Lemmy itself.

Let’s stick to the real world, not weird analogies. By default, Lemmy users are presented with an All feed, which includes communities from all instances (except those defederated). When you see one called “games” (at hexbear, whatever that means) and then maybe see its trans flag banner, what’s the reasonable expectation? Discussions about games with people who seem to recognize the value of minority groups and viewpoints, right? And then it turns out those people hijack discussions about gaming to praise or defend totalitarian states who oppress minorities; then they ban, insult and harass you if you disagree. Likewise, what does the notion of China preferring autonomy have to do with Signal in the context of privacy? No reasonable person comes to a privacy community expecting to see praise for China.

You’re in there!

I think the behavior surrounding my games@hexbear ban is also indicative not just of their politics but also of their behavior in general. Its moderator reacting to my report of Holodomor denial by publicly saying the comment has been reported by me is highly unethical. Then following my post about the situation (linked in the OP), one of their users reposted that to Hexbear and there were people tagging me as they threw insults at me, which amounts to harassment, considering I’ve never left a comment in that thread. There were admins in the thread as well, but they only piled on despite their rules prohibiting harassment and insults.

Edit: Here’s a link to some specific examples.

Edit 2: They’re now brigading this thread and tagging me again from here.

Getting closer and closer to that! The reason I made this post to begin with is to do a PSA, because it took me months of being subscribed to games on Hexbear to notice it’s not a leftist community as it presents itself, but authoritarian communist. So I can’t be certain all of their users are in the know, but is it worth keeping the instances unblocked if the bad outweighs the possibility of good?

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Thanks for all the replies so far! The apps have customization options, so checking them out isn’t as simple as just installing and using them all for a few minutes, which is why the feedback is valuable. Even more so when it’s from fellow Boost users whose preferences may be similar to mine.

I’d be surprised if Steam does anything about it. There are racist or otherwise problematic games, group and reviews, but Valve has been letting it slide for years. See here or here for example.

Well, good luck with that. I have my watch history disabled on YouTube and I watch no such content, but YouTube still pushes the likes of Asmongold on me. Imagine what it’s like for people whose history tells YouTube they like content related to gaming. Say you hear about Dustborn and you search for it on YouTube to check out what it’s about. What do you see?

By what definition is “ml leftism” not an oxymoron?

He saturated his otherwise mundane workdays with obsessive exercise and consumption of steroids. Open source data shows that his phone number was a member of several Telegram group chats focusing on expanding his build through anabolics, which wasn’t without its apparent pitfalls. Among the questions Alimov posted to the channel was: “How to continue muscle-growth while getting rid of side-effects such as man-boobs?”

Being armed didn’t help Alex Pretti. I’d seriously consider leaving the country.