It’s because it’s part of my .ml cross-posting campaign, I try to maintain the original link as much as possible so it shows in the crosspost menu of clients
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don’t want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can’t even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like “Lemmy? Isn’t that the place with a bunch of tankies?” Or “Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left”. The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
Well this particular pathway isnt about getting .ml users to leave, but more “redirecting” good non-tankie content off their comms and into non-.ml comms
I’m on MULTIVERSE, which defederated.ml, and I can still see the image just fine. I’m glad I can see their memes without having to tolerate their users.
It’s because it’s part of my .ml cross-posting campaign, I try to maintain the original link as much as possible so it shows in the crosspost menu of clients
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
Well I’m not going to interact with anything from ML so you’re not really doing any good. ML users have more than enough incentive to leave already.
Well this particular pathway isnt about getting .ml users to leave, but more “redirecting” good non-tankie content off their comms and into non-.ml comms
They can’t even see my posts lmao
Could you not re-host the image on your own instance?
I could, but not without breaking the crossposting link
I’m on MULTIVERSE, which defederated.ml, and I can still see the image just fine. I’m glad I can see their memes without having to tolerate their users.