The problem isn’t what the content was, the problem is letting a payment processor dictate what is and is not acceptable even when legal

Today it’s “rape content” tomorrow, it’s vanilla porn, then the day after it’s LGBTQ+ affirmative content

https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/520460

People are doing that too, there was just an article posted a bit ago talking about that.

Causing multi hour waits with the goal of hurting them by delaying actual customers getting help

ETA

Found the post https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/520460

step 5: There are now 57 other ones out there lol

Uh huh, just like how the instance/user block being horribly implemented to where it’s just a barely functional mute is just a (4 year) “oversight”.

Funny how their “oversights” just so happen to have benefits to their efforts to push authoritarianism

https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

Just the search in history? Bruh, the entire YT history feature has been the single most unreliable piece of regurgitated Satan hell hound dog shit I’ve ever had the pleasure of using

OpenAI’s malfeasance with regard to energy usage, data theft,

I mean that’s why I call them silly folks, that’s all still attributable to that corporate greed we all hate, but I’ve also seen them shit on research work and papers just because “AI” Soo yea lol

Aside from the few people on Lemmy who are entirely anti-AI

Those are silly folks lmao

most people just don’t want AI jammed willy-nilly into places where it doesn’t belong to do things poorly that it’s not equipped to do.

Exactly, fuck corporate greed!

I just saw the CRT Gameboy one the other day, it was pure art. Subscribed after that lmao

It’s not what they personally believe that most have issues with, it’s how they leverage what’s widely seen as the “official” developer instance. Whether they like it or not or what they say it is or not, it is recognized as such and as the “public face” it should be governed in an unbiased way, or all politics on it should be banished from it.

If they were running a personal instance for their personal politics that didn’t have official Lemmy development and support comms, there would be a LOT more people donating for Lemmy’s development

https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

When they’re off the admin list

And a new, unbiased and fair, team is in place. I’m quite clear about that

Until then, I have recurring donations for PieFed, .world and .cafe

Yes, a comm dedicated to documentation (and the occasional meme) of what they say and do

Here’s a quick recap with a selection of direct evidence links: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

How do they exploit their position as devs to push their political agenda? Do they add something to the code that gives them some exclusive benefits?

Look at how the .ml instance is positioned. People will hear “That instance is run by the devs and all support and other official development comms are on it” and will automatically gravitate to it and the reputation of Lemmy as a whole becomes tied to it. And other instances are hesitant to defed from it because of that.

So now the devs are in a defacto position of influence, regardless of if they want it or not. Now they have a choice, they can moderate it fairly and unbiased (i.e. not using it to further their personal politics) or separate its day to day operations to another admin team. As another commentator in this thread put it “The devs should do dev work and not mod work, and the admin team should do mod work and not dev work”

They’ve already proven that they cant do the first choice so now the only viable option is the second one, which they’re probably not gonna address.

If you mean they just host their own instance, isn’t it the whole point of Lemmy and what all the other instances are doing? Some even block other instances that do not match their political bias to not ruin their echo chamber. I mean I’m on lemmy.world which probably would be more accurately named lemmy.ultra.left.usa for some time now.

Because of my first point, they tied all sorts of official development stuff to .ml, many instances don’t want to defederate because of that and the perception (it doesn’t really hold when you look at MAUs) that they have the biggest comms on lemmy, it’s almost akin to holding them hostage in my eyes “if you or your mods want official on-lemmy lemmy support, official announcements or access to Lemmys BIGGEST comms then you HAVE to stay federated with us!”

Things would be different if they were just running a personal instance with no official Lemmy anything on it, then it would be much easier for instances to make a defederation decision, just like the rest of the triad

https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

Maybe you should check in with your partner dessalines and your other admin davel then, because there’s a whole lot of modlog entries and anti-Ukraine propaganda spreading with their name on em

Before you do: https://lemmy.world/post/29072279

!meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works

It’s all documented right there, “smear campaign” means to constantly accuse someone of something knowing they actually didn’t do it for the purpose of ruining their reputation or other consequence like getting fired

If the subject in question is actually doing the things they’re being accused of and can provide evidence then that’s wholly justified

You’re on .world, .world already defederates (Will not accept content, votes or users) from 2/3rds of what’s known as the “Tankie Triad” (.ml, Hexbear and Grad, .world is defeded from grad and hex)

For blocking go-to lemmy.world/settings block tab and scroll to bottom to “instance blocks” and add lemmy.ml

Note: The “block” currently does not function properly, it’s more of a mute, you won’t see .ml comments or posts, but they can see and interact with it

lemmy.cafe defederates from the entire Tankie Triad