“I would not acknowledge reproduction as a human right, but instead as a form of rape,” IndictEvolution wrote on Lemmy.World in July 2023. “I am also not bothered by infanticide as long as it is done humanely...”

Here is an archive of the article.

Here is his account.

It looks like he only stayed on Lemmy for about a month, most likely a temporary Reddit exile with the earliest exodus on June 2023. The article mentions threads on Reddit but doesn't provide any quotes from there. User IndictEvolution on Reddit deleted their account, and the article makes it sound like they are referring to a different username that they don't specify.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I don't judge people based on their instance at an individual level, that's not my point. Like you said, most on Lemmy.world picked it because it's the largest instance. However, the moderation and admins do have an ideological bent, and over time this filters out users that don't "fit in" with that, leading to an "average user" with views aligning with the average mods and admins.

I don't really care ahout inter-instance drama, it's not that deep. But I do notice trends and I understand how soft-censorship works and how consent is manufactured. Plus, there are terminally online users on Lemmy.world that do see all Marxists as enemies and wish to take down Lemmy.ml, so that does exist, and is tolerated by Lemmy.world mods and admins.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Then there’s me, who joined .world because it was the largest, is a Marxist, but has no idea how to even switch instances or access .ml where I would like to be 😂

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Personally, I try to stick to instances that will only defederate from others if there are major, serious issues, like illegal content and what not, and that are also not largely defederated by other instances. That way, I get to have a more complete experience of Lemmy / the threadiverse without missing out on major chunks of it. I think it's counterproductive that the majority of instances defederate major, legitimate instances, especially now that the Lemmy software allows each individual user to block entire instances if they wish to. This only serves to weaken the threadiverse as an alternative to other major discussion sites. It's even possible for instances to issue default instance blocks on new accounts if they are worried about the new user experience, removeable by the users themselves if they so wish (like lemmy.zip seems to be doing).

The main instances that I've found so far that seem to follow this "defederation only as a last resort" philosophy are the following:

lemmy.ml (although this one is a bit risky for this purpose because there is constant lobbying on liberal instances to start blocking it, despite it being the original and reference Lemmy instance)
lemm.ee (my main instance, appears to have the second fewest defederations of other instances)
lemmy.zip (they don't defederate from much - third fewest out of this list - but I understand that new accounts have for instance hexbear and lemmygrad automatically blocked, which each individual user can unblock)
lemmy.sdf.org (they defederate from the fewest instances that I'm aware of - the only defederation they currently have seems to be due to technical issues arising from a dead instance)

If you would like to keep contact with the broader range of Lemmy instances, these are the ones I would look into. You can check which instances any Lemmy site defederates from by visiting /instances and clicking the "Blocked Instances" tab.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Wow thanks for the detailed write up. Can't lie, it's pretty annoying constantly having pro-communist or anti-capitalist comments removed by the lemmy.world mods for "misinformation."

[–] turtle@lemm.ee 1 points 39 minutes ago

You're welcome! I can totally understand, that would definitely be frustrating. One other factor you may want to consider is which jurisdiction the instance runs under, since some countries do have laws restricting speech. They will sometimes state the jurisdiction in the terms and conditions of the site. Ignore the information you find on sites like FediDB about where the instance is located since often that is only showing things like that they are going through Cloudflare, etc. Good luck in choosing a new instance!

[–] i_ben_fine@midwest.social 17 points 1 day ago

I chose my instance because it wasn't defederated by .world and hadn't defederated from hexbear or .ml https://midwest.social/instances

I like my leftism but I also like my slop.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can just make an account! Go to Lemmy.ml, or whichever other instance you'd like such as Hexbear.net or Lemmygrad.ml, and apply for an account. You can't really swap over, but you can create a new account and log in that way.

[–] GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today -4 points 1 day ago

I'm happy that you're taking the account's claim seriously, but there's no way that there's someone who would be able to determine what instance is largest as the criteria, AND then choose it, AND be unable to "switch instances or access .ml."

That's either a chatbot posing as a person, or a troll.