Just like Facebook, Friendica also has a sort of activity center where you can see all previous notifications. It was ~2 years ago when I first discovered Lemmy. Back then, .ml was the most active instance, with Beehaw on the rise as well. I remember I started by posting in non-political communities at first, and nothing bad happened. But the moment I started to show them how brainwashed I was by Western Imperialist propaganda (sic), they immediately resorted to downvoting all my posts and comments like crazy - be them political or not. Below there’s a screenshot with my beloved Russian Government shill living somewhere in the West, Yogthos gave me a downvote (dislike) to a post I did in a test community. Don’t even know why they bothered, since neither Lemmy and especially Friendica do not have imaginary points for activities on posts and comments. But there’s that, lol.
Yog might be one of the worst of them, too. He’s been posting on the Canada community a lot ever since we’ve started butting heads with China, only to share anti-government propaganda.
There’s an irony in how much I dislike the current Federal government only being trumped by how much I dislike shills for authoritarian nations trying to manipulate public discourse. Often he’ll post an article with a conclusion I fundamentally agree with, but either get there through extremely cherry-picked arguments, or use the conclusions of the articles to start into his personal argument into batshit-crazy takes.
I’ve taken to down voting him and moving on. It feels bad, but I am too busy to spend time and energy refuting his absurdity with the necessary nuance of “yes, the government is bad, half of what you said is true, the other half isn’t and here’s why.” I just do not have the amount of time to be the level of terminally online that would be necessary to deal with someone like him properly.
I wish .ca would just defederate with .ml and be done with it.
Admins have mentioned in the past a fear of retaliation/loss of support if they defed from .ml unfortunately :(
What support? They cant even release a proper update to their software in years despite taking so much money in donations.
Everyone should cancel and boycott all donations to those losers.
Theoretical support, say if they wish to do a pull request for a feature, or a bug report - the concern being if they defed .ml that the bug report/pull request might get closed without review because of it.
they should consider piefed than.
I am on their piefed instance, actually. They just dont want to alienate their userbase by shutting down their original instance.
Oh, is it the same guys running the Piefed?
I will be moving on from everything Lemmy associated. I don’t want to be connected to those wannabe fascists in any capacity. I just don’t use social media enough to care right now. I’ll browse Lemmy a couple times a day, when I am in the bathroom or waiting in a line or whatever, but it rarely gets much more out of me than a spare minute here and there, so I haven’t really cared enough to put time and energy into decided where I am making the jump to.
Maybe I just swap over to the Piefed instance and be done with it.