Oh holy fuck, that’s a must watch every time I’m led to it LMAO

Duolingo:

Lemon8 is owned by the same company as TikTok, they’re literally trading one Chinese app for another anyways.

If you want to drop that bombshell at the office LMAO

But doing so will just give propaganda fodder for the occupying country

“See, your country doesn’t care about you, come to our side blah blah blah”

It’s a tight rope to walk for sure, but I haven’t seen anything out of Ukraine to suggest they’ve fallen off it

Here take this:

Lol you can catch a .ml site-ban for calling out their BS in other instances too, they dgaf

I’m still trying to figure out how to block .ml entirely.

I think this only becomes available to you if your instance is on a certain version.

But we shouldn’t just do instance blocks, that’s just ignoring the problem. We should all be on the lookout for this kinda BS so we can screenshot, compile and eventually petition our respective instance admins to defederate.

As well as cross-posting any good material you come across from a .ml comm to any other non-.ml comm

That’s just not true. They don’t give a shit about .world. They don’t even have to give a shit about .world. They’ve got plenty of traffic to manage without .world.

You must not have spent much time over there, go into any .ml threads where .world gets brought up and they’ll shit all over us for being a CIA front, US State Department Mouthpiece, nothin but bots, “Reddit 2.0”, “fake leftist”, front for the US military, to stupid to realize we’re just digesting propaganda and on and on and on

But yet, they won’t defederate and they get awfully mad whenever someone does bring up .world defederating from them.

So I ask you, if they’re so full with traffic to manage, then why do they not defederate from .world?

I had to reread it a few times myself, but I’m pretty sure that’s what he’s talkin about

Because everyone knows Russia is well known for their totally legit free and fair elections/s

Essentially yea, the laws enforcement mechanism as-is is just having the app delisted from app stores

Everything else is of TikToks own doing

I hope by “send letter” they meant digitally, otherwise he’s just gonna use it as toilet paper

There are certainly valid reasons for it and it’s also a fairly controversial thing to do. IMO it should be reserved for obvious spam/scam accounts or other problematic content accounts (e.g. Posting harmful misinformation or propaganda, illegal content, hate speech etc), not as a tool for “content I don’t agree with, but is otherwise fine”

However, that being said, my meme isn’t really about whether or not it’s a just or good/bad thing to do, it’s about the irony of a group who consistently shits on .world as being “Reddit-like” to pull a page straight out of the reddit mod playbook

FYI HilariousChaos is starting to gain a reputation for being “ExplodingHeads reincarnated”

If it’s already dead, why not just make your own community on your instance?

It’s a .ml tankie, they only care because it’s a Chinese company, guaranteed if it was like a UK company or something they wouldn’t say a word about it lmao

It’s one thing to ban someone for posts and content on the instance itself

It’s very modern-Reddit like to ban someone who never posted anything on your instance’s communities

True, but it’s the irony of it I’m poking fun of here. Also, I think .world is “Reddit like”, but Reddit-like of 10 years ago

I’ve already started teaching my own kids this, but how to recognize AI generated shit because that’s going to get dangerous as time goes on

That would go beyond the ban’s requirement for app stores to stop offering downloads of the app, but not immediately halt use of it.

Before the tankies get mad about the “censorship” of the US while failing to mention the LONG list of things you can get straight up arrested for in China

Not to defend Google, but it has nothing to do with shame and everything to do with marketing.

If you read the URL as a sentence supportsmallbiz.withgoogle.com = Support Small Biz With Google

It’s all under the surface, the admins, mods and a good portion of users have just as extreme viewpoints, but tend to walk the line quite carefully to avoid being defederated by .world