@AdAstra@lemmy.ml isn’t banned from !europe@lemmy.ml, but they’ve been inactive for five years. It’s effectively abandoned.

Most lemmy.ml communities effectively have no moderators, because over time the moderators left, and no one offered to replace them. Requests to moderate abandoned communities are done through !community_requests@lemmy.ml.

The UI only allows community moderators to edit their settings, like for instance banners and icons.

archive.is/archive.today is not archive.org, and they did it without permission, because they never get permission.

Usenet is 45 years old, and we’ve been living through an Eternal September for over 30 years.

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Okay. Do you want your posts & comments deleted as well?

Is this a problem with a client app you’re using? Did you try using a browser instead?

That sounds like a your app problem. Try using a browser.

Most of us want actual answers from knowledgeable people, not unvetted copypasta from LLMs.

Let Me Spicy Autocomplete That For You

No, the commenter misspelled “decides” as “decided.”

Protip: If you stop doing using multiple question marks?? and exclamation points!!! and so many emojis🤔🤔🤔, you’ll get fewer downvotes. Read the room.

FWIW, it’s fairly rare for a deletion to not propagate. And I’ve yet to come across a rogue instance intentionally refusing to honor deletions. If we did, our instance would defederate from it.

I think it’s safe to say that this is an unappealing issue for most potential users.

I don’t actually think it’s safe to say that. I suspect that most people wouldn’t be very concerned about ActivityPub’s “best effort” federated deletion. But without actually polling people, I don’t think that either of these theories holds enough water to call “safe to say.”

This “fatal” flaw is hardly unique to ActivityPub. You fundamentally cannot control anything you publish on the internet. You can’t stop people from saving copies or taking screenshots, you can’t stop archive bots or LLM web scrapers, and you can’t force Lemmy instances to honor deletion requests.

Your !worldnews@lemmy.ml post didn’t follow the community rules, specifically, “Please only post links to actual news sources”. Each Lemmy instance has rules, and many communities have additional rules.

It seems that free speech is only an illusion on Lemmy servers.

Nobody said Lemmy has frozen peaches.

Where can I post any comment on any post (even blocked Reddit posts) without being blocked?

You can always spin up your own free speech absolutist instance, but it would inevitably become a Nazi bar, and other instances would defederate from it.

Are you also going to claim that DeepSeek isn’t censored?

You can download DeepSeek and run it yourself to get uncensored answers.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are not truth machines. They are garbage in, garbage out. The input to English-language models are largely English-language texts from Five Eyes countries, with all the disinformation and bias that that entails. So the DeepSeek company is in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” situation. They can either refuse to answer certain questions, in which case Western media will accuse them of censorship; or they can answer them, in which case (a) their model will perpetuate Cold War I & Cold War II falsehoods and (b) Western media will parade those false answers around in a victory lap. They chose the former for the cloud version of their app, and the latter for the local version.

If you don’t see any protests in a democracy, it’s not because everybody is happy.

Now you’re just vagueposting 🙄 Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds:

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime’s atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn’t go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

Let’s talk about Tiananmen Square.

• Tank Man (now with more raw footage)
• The Tian’anmen Square ‘Massacre’: The West’s Most Persuasive, Most Pervasive Lie.
• Columbia Journalism Review: The Myth of Tiananmen
• 1989 Tian’anmen Square riots
• A Note on the Tiananmen Protests
• Images from Tiananmen 1989 the West never shows (NSFW / CW: violence and death)
• How psy-ops warriors fooled me about Tiananmen Square: a warning

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Or how about Uyghurs.

• https://lemmy.ml/comment/15126223
• https://lemmy.ml/comment/14839342

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Let’s use a picture of Winnie the Pooh.

Not censored. You can buy Pooh-branded toys, watch Pooh Disney films, and ride Pooh-branded amusement park rides. Nobody has a problem with this adorable meme.

People’s democracy my ass.

• Most in China Call Their Nation A Democracy, Most in U.S. Say America Isn’t
• Long-term survey reveals Chinese government satisfaction
• Helping 800 Million People Escape Poverty Was Greatest Such Effort in History, Says [UN] Secretary-General, on Seventieth Anniversary of China’s Founding
• China’s Energy Use Per Person Surpasses Europe’s for First Time
• At 54, China’s average retirement age is too low
• China overtakes U.S. for healthy lifespan: WHO data

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If you want to talk about a fake democracy, look no further than the US. Previously:

The US government was never not captured by the bourgeoisie, because the US was born of a bourgeois revolution[1]. The wealthy, white, male, land-owning, largely slave-owning Founding Fathers constructed a bourgeois state with “checks and balances” against the “tyranny of the majority”. It was never meant to represent the majority—the working class—and it never has, despite eventually allowing women and non-whites (at least those not disenfranchised by the carceral system) to vote. BBC: [Princeton & Northwestern] Study: US is an oligarchy, not a democracy

GPL is evil. GPL is poison. You’re an ideologie.

🤣 Do you hear yourself? No one’s going to say something as hyperbolic and emotional as “GPL is evil. GPL is poison.” except an anti-GPL ideologue. The “original UNIX cultural mindset” is itself an ideology. You are an ideologue. You might as well as well say, “BSD license fills my heart with so much love, I wish I could make passionate love to the BSD license.”

Proof of what? The proof of her making baseless accusations are in her comments and in the modlog.

Or are you asking me to prove a negative? That the downvotes are not coming from my thousands of alt accounts?

Or did you still not get my joke, and you think that I’m genuinely accusing you of being a bad faith alt account?