Because you’re replying to this comment chain where I’m inquiring about proof regarding the claim that those websites are Russian propaganda websites.

Trying to dismiss someone who is asking for proof & sources of a claim is certainly part of the Russian propaganda playbook, so I’m not sure how believable you peeps are with what you’re saying.

Well, feel free to provide proof that those sites are Russian propaganda websites then.

Okay? You did not provide any proof of those examples being Russian propaganda websites though? Just because someone shares Russian talking points, does not make the website a Russian propaganda site. I asked for actual proof of that statement that makes them near 100% confident, because that would require substantial proof. But it seems it’s just feelings and “I don’t like their opinion” based instead, which is a sad metric for being nearly 100% convinced.

Edit: You all really love disinformation, huh? At least it feeds your confirmation bias instead of telling the truth, that’s the most important thing.

Could you be more specific?

If you cannot differentiate between feminists and feminazis either, then we have indeed nothing to talk about as you’ve sufficiently outed yourself as an extremist who does not aim for equality.

Not speaking to veganazis isn’t the same as not speaking to vegans. Normal vegans I have no issues talking to.

My first point is about the community that’s about vegan food shunning those interested in vegan food because they’re unwilling to talk to people who eat animal produce.

Yes, and there are Muslim diets I’m sure, but Islam isn’t a diet either, for example. Just stick “veganism” into your search engine of choice and the credible sources won’t call it a diet.

And there’s surely people who are looking for traditional Muslim food without wanting to convert to Islam as well. Muslim’s would probably treat people curious about their food less hostile than those vegans would.

I suspect your willingness to assume the worst of what a vegan’s said

You can suspect that I assume the worst of any sort of human, especially when they constantly argue in bad faith and with hostile rhetoric. That being said, I don’t approach vegans at all. I just observe the constant self righteous shit flinging they do from the outside, or get unwillingly caught up in it because they can’t help but attack people even outside of their little radicalized bubbles.

And they’d ban you for your opinion.

Also the notion of “owning” another animal is speciesist.

I’m not sure I can take the people in that community and what they claim seriously.

There are certainly vegan diets. People who still eat animal produce may still be interested in vegan alternatives without becoming vegan or vegetarian. And I don’t think being part of a small community of a certain life choice isn’t really making you a minority in the political sense (I assume that’s what the minority part is trying to imply here, that there’s some sort of entitlement for a minority protection).

Also, promoting vegan diets for carnivorous pets is indeed animal abuse and should not be defended or promoted. That’s typically a telltale sign of veganazis, which are generally a terrible thing even for actual vegans as they put the whole lifestyle into a bad light with their overly aggressive rhetoric and disinformation.

If they indeed promoted vegan diets for carnivores then I’m for a ban of the mod / community too. That’s very much animal abuse.

I don’t think that counts as targeted hate crime or whatever. He wasn’t stabbed for veganism, he was stabbed from the heated argument, which by trigger happy dumbos like these could have been about anything.

It’s not spam when they make a lot of posts to their own community.

I disagree. I see this often from lemmynsfw or various meme communities where some users tend to just dump 5-10 or even more threads. Neither Lemmy nor mbin really uses algorithms to prevent communities from showing up more than once, so you’ll always get the full load of those submissions spammed into your feed.

And no, blocking the entire community is not a valid solution when you do not inherently disagree with it.

That’s why you go with !

Hence why I barely watch YT anymore. The few channels not resorting to this bullshit are definitely a minority and also hard to find.

I have a problem with content made for the purpose to profit. And no, I’m completely allergic to ads, so I very much have a problem with ads as a whole too. They’re just two correlating issues.

it has no ties with “the purpose of youtube” simply because… it’s not youtube.

It’s literally hosted and watched on YT my guy. Without YT the video would not exist, without YT the video would not be watched, without YT the video would not even get created, and without YT it would not give the creator any way to monetize it - be it through YT ads itself or through external third party sponsoring, which is ultimately completely irrelevant to your counter argument. In the end the videos get made with the purpose of making money off of them, not to provide a potentially interesting video to be shared with others - that’s how YT started.

Sure but if the content suck you won’t watch it.

I won’t, thousands or even millions of others do though, because the average user is about as brain dead as the content nowadays on YT.

Nowadays, yes. But that comes down to the fact that most people don’t care, which continuously degrades YT content to what it is now, and further degrades it into even more of an absurdity. That’s why I barely watch YT videos anymore, and I was a pretty active viewer in the past, being with the platform pretty much since its creation. Boycotts unfortunately only work if people collectively pull through, but at least I can say that I personally stay out of the nonsense. It’s not like there aren’t other things I could be doing.

Not a fan of avoiding clickbait titles & thumbnails, because then you still click on such videos and support those practices. I rather just block all channels using those tactics.

Advertisement made YT a whoring fest where content does not matter and is only used to bait people into clicking your video so that the creators get money. That’s the primary purpose of YT nowadays, and it fucking sucks. I’m not gonna support that shit.

Yeah, I don’t see much point in that either. Sponsorblock related posts could be just part of a general YT related community instead. Segregating into some fringe communities is just going to further lower the content easily available, making the fediverse appear even more empty. Other instances will likely never see those tiny fringe communities because they won’t even federate until someone on that same instance subscribes to it.

No, they block kinda specific based on certain factors, as outlined by the other person.

And yes, the lack of moderation controls is one of the big reasons why they want to leave.

By that logic you’d have to defederate from basically anything because the moderation tools and sign-ups are about the same everywhere.

https://lemmyverse.link/midwest.social/comment/11535311

The server returned a “500 Internal Server Error”.

Great. lol

Is it possible to fedilink directly to specific threads or even comments, or just communities?

Unfortunately on mbin I can only block the specific communities or users, not the entire instance.

On world I’ve seen them in the news communities, but I pretty much blocked them all by now because of the unwillingness to moderate by all of them, specifically regarding disinformation. Though, the instance is too big for me to ban every community, like I do with lemmy.ml. At that point there would be not much activity left and it is already incredibly lowly populated.

I can appreciate Beehaw blocking the more extreme left instances though, even though they are pretty left leaning too.

I’m surprised he isn’t banned yet. Is it just me or do I see a lot of Tankie shit on lemm.ee? Is it another lemmy.ml / lemmygrad / hexbear cesspool? I think lemmy.zip was another smaller one that had a lot of Tankie traffic. Or is that just a consequence of them somehow (?) not defederating from the Tankie instances?