this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
2995 points (99.0% liked)

Fediverse

28503 readers
411 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Current breakdown at the time of this post sorted by the number of monthly active users:

  1. lemmy.world: 101,013 total users / 27,472 active users
  2. lemmy.ml: 41,972 total users / 4,905 active users
  3. beehaw.org: 12,270 total users / 4,178 active users
  4. sh.itjust.works: 17,509 total users / 3,381 active users
  5. feddit.de: 8,675 total users / 2,935 active users
  6. lemm.ee: 10,348 total users / 2,751 active users
  7. lemmynsfw.com: 22,967 total users / 2,310 active users
  8. lemmy.fmhy.ml: 8,777 total users / 1,704 active users
  9. lemmy.ca: 5,072 total users / 1,656 active users
  10. programming.dev: 5,058 total users / 1,242 active users

Source: https://the-federation.info/platform/73

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's literally owned at large (undisclosed as a private company it is) part by TSMC, by one of the most major famous companies/puppets of CCP/Communist Chinese Party.

China is known for abolishing anybody who disobeys their rules and anybody who accuses them of not being more "Free" or for criticizing them. (Egh egh ... Jack Ma). Obviously anybody who opposes their demands ceases to exist. Anything they can't control, they're banning it. It's a known fact, not a tinfoil one. With dozens of examples:

  • Google
  • Winnie the pooh - coz a bunch of uni students said Xi looks like him and he got insulted. How shitty ego can you have
  • Peppa Pig: This animated children's show was temporarily banned in China because it was seen as a subculture icon of the "shehuiren" (society person), a term used to describe people who run counter to the mainstream value and are usually poorly educated with no stable job.
  • Brad Pitt: Following the release of the movie "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997), which portrays a negative view of China's activities in Tibet, Brad Pitt was banned from entering China.
  • Bohemian Rhapsody movie: All references to Freddie Mercury's sexuality and AIDS diagnosis were removed
  • South Park: well ... any fun who watches south park knows. And there's even an episode dedicated to that.
  • Lady Gaga, Selina Gomez, Maroon 5, Chinese Celebrities like Fan Bingbing disappeared for several months in 2018 amidst a tax evasion scandal
  • "Time-travel" TV dramas

Anyway. We all know how China doesn't like Criticism. This is just a list for the bots that will come down to accuse me of being tinfoil hatted.

And discord is literally a platform with NO-TEXT-ENCRYPTION. So, OBVIOUSLY, YEAH, they know everything you write there. Literally. And your profile name, and your history, your servers, chat logs, what games you like more if you connected your steam, what music you listen to if you connected your spotify etc.

Discord should be banned from the whole universe. Not just explode.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that’s scary…

i wish i knew this sooner, i hope i can manage to stop using that platform as soon as possible.