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Weird. Users should be able to block or mute instances.

Can't you block or mute instances yourself?

Actually they cannot say this because they are probably employed by the Chinese Government and would be put to death if they did.

Based on what? According to who?

Using Lemmy is fine, don't be afraid to use Lemmy. We're just talking about how lemmy.ml's practices affect Lemmy's reputation.

It's 100% marketing, which is what this thread is about, no? Lemmy.ml's moderation practices are bad marketing for the project as a whole.

No, it's proof that a community affiliated with the larger project can affect the project's reputation, while a community unaffiliated with the larger project typically does not do so.

This, their moderation practices have been noticeable enough that they're scaring users away with their blatant support of historically fascist regimes

https://lemmy.world/post/24798

The problem is that lemmy.ml is the flagship instance.

It'd be different than saying, for example, r/TheDonald gave Reddit a reputation of being right wing. r/TheDonald clearly had no affiliation with Reddit writ large, while lemmy.ml is the flagship instance of the entire Lemmy project.

The problem is just that the lemmygrad and lemmy.ml admins and mods are giving Lemmy as a whole a bad name. The same thing has happened to Mastodon.

Because burggit is pro pedophilia

Beehaw seems like a fun community but their admin likes censorship and their instance doesn't support free speech. I'm hoping we can build something comparable to @[email protected] on the free side on Lemmy.