I’ve seen several references to some sort of rift between the users of these instances today. What’s happening?

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    5 hours ago

    The Lemmy devs run .ml, and were/are part of a community revolving around the contrarian idea that anti-Western dictatorships are actually the good guys and all working together (somehow, despite visibly hating each other a lot of the time).

    The basic idea was always going to push some users to other instances, and then the adherents acting like conspiracy theorists often do pushed away a lot more. Some of the most aggressive instances are outright blocked by .world, IIRC.

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      6 hours ago

      anti-Western dictatorships are actually the good guys and all working together (somehow, despite visibly hating each other a lot of the time).

      I’m from Hexbear which is generally more extreme than .ml and this idea seems absurd to me. Who is saying that e.g. Russia is a close ally of Ansarallah?