So there are a few possible reasons I can see with this

1. The fear is truly unfounded
2. The fear is founded, but .cafe being so small, he doesn’t care to lend a hand and can use it for examples should this fear conversation become more serious. Dessalines is a lot of things, but he’s not dumb
3. The fear is founded, but because it’s an issue that could potentially affect any instance large or small they decided to deal with it. Vs say if .world decided to defederate and then ran into an issue that mostly just affected them because of their size, maybe they’ll “give the run around” instead or ignore the issue until it affects an instance they care about

Sorry if I phrased it weirdly, I didn’t mean to imply that threats had been made (which I mean, dessalines is smarter than that, because like you said it would blow the Lemmy-verse up if he actually made a threat), but rather it’s a fear that’s out there.

But like I said, I have confirmation of that fear in a DM from a major instance admin. Whether or not that fear is founded and justified or not, is up for debate. But it exists and it’s a factor in the decision making process

I don’t really consider infosec.pub to be a “major” instance, it’s only at ~300 MAUs iirc, by “major” I’m thinking .world or SJW or blahaj

In any case, I’m almost positive I’ve seen it mentioned publicly in one of those big threads, maybe the donation ones a few months back. It was also told to me point blank by an admin of one of said major instances in a DM, but I am unsure how or even if I can release that considering it was told to me in private

Well the PF instances don’t really have an excuse, though iirc the flagship PF does defed (or maybe it was a default block?) from the entire Triad

But it has come up that some major instances have a big concern in that if they defed from .ml dessalines will pull back support from them in retaliation

Which is always a fantastic healthy green flag of a relationship/s

Am I ootl on something with blahaj? It’s been a fine instance imo

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Replied as a TLC the same, but I’m open to whatever if the other skylines comm is onboard to consolidating to another comm

know cm0002 cross-posts (in an automated fashion)

Not automated, all my posts and crosspost are 100% done by my 2 hands lol

I don’t mind consolidation to a non-.ml comm, provided ofc the other comm is open to it as well

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Well pushing aside any shitty corporate behavior

The actual cell service performance is quite subjective and varies wildly between the 3 major carriers. Your area TMO probably really does suck, but in my area it’s far better than ATT and Verizon especially when it comes to 5G

This is a windows admin, not a Linux admin :P

made an account on an instance that was less than a day old

Honestly, I had no idea that they were only open for a day, I just peruse Lemmyverse.net and pick instances that seem interesting or have funny/cool sounding names 😂

“Uyghur atrocity propaganda equate birth control with genocide.” Is his literal words for the first one, some are memes and you almost have to interpret into a quote. How do you directly quote a meme?

Besides, here’s one that just happened earlier today, no quotes no interpretation other than saying what happened (banning people who call out Russian propaganda): https://lemmy.zip/post/53268068

And those are only highlights, the megathread has many MANY examples

Some highlights:

"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

Lol, tankies are authoritarians

As documented in the Megathread here

Some highlights:

"Don’t worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167

“See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn’t count!!” ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342

.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558

The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068

“NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035

General negative sentiment to other instances who haven’t “seen the way” yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510

“If you don’t support Russia then you just don’t understand geopolitics” ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415

Nutomic is like the second in command and word around the cooler is hes the one that does the bulk of the coding work. They definitely have shared values, with the exception of his transphobia.

He doesn’t do a whole lot as far as admining .ml goes so isn’t featured as much or ever actually now that I think about it

Whataboutism

Have you reviewed the evidence or are you just going to ignore it and pretend it doesn’t exist

If you’ve been site banned from .ml, then .ml users will not be able to see you. There is also a way to site-ban a user in a way that they also won’t be able to see your content prior to the ban issuance as well. Called a siteban with purge