• GONADS125@lemmy.worldEnglish
    224·
    1 年前

    I’m not happy with this development, but I’m slightly amused by the irony being that lemmy.ml is pro-china and has been moderated as such.

      • SkyezOpen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        20·
        1 年前

        ML stands for Marxist leninist, which means they love authoritarian regimes that don’t like the US. The number of them that unironically stan Stalin is baffling.

        • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          21·
          1 年前

          .ml is the top level domain for Mali, it doesn’t have anything to do with Marxist-Leninism by itself. They may have chosen it as a tongue in cheek reference, but it is also a cheaper alternative to other more popular tlds like .com.

        • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          1 年前

          ML is machine learning. It means they love teaching AI to overthrow the illuminati government lizard people. Can’t believe u didn’t know that, kinda embarrassing

          Sees some use in Mali and for some websites about machine learning. Use is relatively rare elsewhere.

          https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml

        • nlm@lemmy.oneEnglish
          7·
          1 年前

          .ml domain names used to be free (together with .ga I think it was) through freenom so it might just be that they snagged themselves a free domain that just happened to be ml.

          Not saying you couldn’t be right but not everything is quite as well thought out as it first seems.

    • Neato@kbin.social
      14·
      1 年前

      I don’t understand why the pro China tanked subs would get banned but not the rest.

        • 1bluepixel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          46·
          1 年前

          This is exactly it.

          I’m moving to China for work, so I’m interested in alternative points of view on Chinese society from the usual U.S. mainstream media CCP hate boner. I checked out hexbear, and… my goodness.

          They cheer for a version of China that the Chinese themselves would be embarrassed by. It’s clearly driven by 14-year-old white boy edgelords who are enamored with a hardcore Marxist-Leninist vision of China that never existed, most likely in reaction to a dislike of modern Western capitalism. I mean, they referenced “struggle sessions” with nostalgia and cheer for Bashar al-Assad because China is being friendly to him.

          Real-life China is quite different from the depictions you see on main Lemmy instances, but it sure as hell isn’t anything like what the tankies are jerking off to, either.

          • vidarh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            17·
            1 年前

            It feels like most Western CCP cheerleaders are basically cheering on a pre-Deng version of the CCP and haven’t quite noticed that the CCP of today would totally purge anyone pushing the pre-Deng/pre-1978 views of the CCP.

        • ttmrichter@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          1 年前

          “China” isn’t “embarrassed” by lemmy.ml or hexbear.net. “China” just shuts down access to non-Chinese social media sites as they are discovered. Any social media site that isn’t currently blocked in China is on numbered days until they are blocked, whether “pro-China” or “anti-China”.

          • ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            2·
            1 年前

            This is true. I was kidding. That said, the Chinese government does engage in social media. And they probably would see lemmy users as a poor messenger, if they cared about lemmy.

      • redballooon@lemm.eeEnglish
        26·
        1 年前

        They might spread western ideas of communism in China. That’s not something China can allow.