Ah, it could be, yes. But I quickly checked a few popular instances and looks like OP was banned on many. For example: dbzero (profile), lemmy.world (profile), piefed.social (profile, no such user), lemmy.zip (profile).

So these post wasn’t visible to many, yet still downvoted (I assume mostly by local users). Some may argue that all sources are biased - I agree. However, the articles OP posted wasn’t good. For example, you can check my other comment under a similar post from the OP: https://lemmy.ml/post/44675222/24621308.

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Weren’t posts from RT and TASS downvoted even on ML?

Yeah, but their content does.

Because it’s essentially what you’re saying in subtext.

No, I didn’t imply any of this.

I’m not sure what you mean. I don’t like any of the media we mentioned in this dialogue. Not because of where they get their funding, but because of their content. I explained why I don’t like TASS in this comment section above.

I don’t think they’re doing this because they are concerned about citizens’ safety or privacy. I think the main goal is to replace these platforms with their own proprietary alternatives. This way, the ruling class can earn more money and gain full control over the content people consume. If safety were truly a concern, why not fund PeerTube development? Or open-source what they’ve developed?

Anyway, I prefer to decide which websites to access on my own. I think allowing an oligarchy to make that decision for us can’t be a good thing.

I’ll assume whatever media source that confirms my bias is trustworthy

Why are you making up what I think?

PBS, NPR, CSPAN, VoA, RadioFree, etc

I realized that I wrote “state media” when I meant “state-owned.” The media you listed are state-funded, while TASS is state-owned. But that’s not the point. I’m not a native speaker, so sometimes what I say might not be entirely clear. I’m saying that some sources are worse than others. I don’t like TASS or RT, similar to the mentioned Fox News - you can see my comment above as an example of why.

I know this. I just don’t think state-controlled media is much different from corporate media under oligarchy. US don’t have state media (edit: state-owned, not just state-funded) as far as I know, but if they were, those media would simply change bias toward the ruling party.

I mentioned Fox News because they feel similar in spirit: conservative and usually not trustworthy.

In my comment below, I explained what happens to Ukrainians in those territories. To put it short, they lose their homes and have to evacuate somewhere else within Ukraine (they can’t leave the country or cross the front line). Did Russia provide any help to those poor souls? No. Is this what is called “freeing”?

France was occupied by Germany. When you start a war with another country because their government gone wild, it’s not liberation. Is the US liberating the Iranian people?

I’m not a westerner. But TASS and RT are like Fox News in the US. Those are simply bad sources.

Well, this is what those “liberated” cities look like:

And dwellers of those cities can’t just cross the frontline and start living in Russia. They only can evacuate deeper into Ukraine because otherwise they won’t survive. And Ukrainian government doesn’t build new houses for them. They give them a bit of money (but you won’t be able to afford rent), and sometimes they offer quickly built barracks (trust me, you wouldn’t want to live there). So I doubt you would find any of those “liberated” people happy.

If that’s not enough, Russia also bombs electricity infrastructure in winter (it’s a high demand season). Because of this, people across the country suffer from electricity outages. Imagine having only 3 hours of electricity per day (that’s how it was in Odessa about a month ago). It’s also quite cold in here. I’m not sure what Russia’s strategy is, maybe they’re trying to destroy the country’s economy or hurt manufacturing abilities, but it’s simply inhumane. Regular people suffer a lot because of it.

What I’m trying to say is that it’s not about liberating people. Many Ukrainians hate their government, especially after TCR gone wild (it’s like ICE, but much worse), and recent corruption scandals tied to Zelensky’s inner circle. But it’s replacing one shitty government with another. Russia is also corrupt, half of the internet is banned, you can’t even access YouTube or popular Matrix servers, and LGBTQ is illegal (also, every time it’s mentioned it’s labeled with “the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia” - here you can see this in a TASS article for example).

For example, it’s when they talk about how they’re “liberating” Ukrainian people. Here are some of the recent posts from the OP:

• Russian troops liberate Aleksandrovka community in Donetsk region over past day
• Russian troops liberate two communities in Ukraine operation over past day — top brass
• Russian army liberates settlement of Golubovka in DPR

Do they oppose the US? Sure. But are they freeing Ukrainian people? Hell no - they’ve been suffering for 4 years.

It’s like saying “America is just helping Iranian people to overthrow their government”. They don’t care about Iranian people at all.

I don’t think sources like TASS are any different.

Here some non-western source free from the empire

Looks inside

pro-Russia propaganda

Related post from YPTB: https://lemmy.ml/post/44625171

Also your posts from TASS and RT downvoted on ML as well.

It’s like saying, “Invading Iran is okay because their state is bad.” It’s not okay - look at how much suffering it causes. And for what? Simply replacing one oligarchy with another.

Looking forward to the community visibility feature.

There are bots on Lemmy that duplicate posts from sources like Reddit. They usually post into special locked communities on dedicated instances (such as lemmit.online). Most instances have banned these bots to avoid flooding the local feed with high-volume bot reposts. And this makes perfect sense.

But with the ability to unlist a community, we probably won’t need to ban such bots and can instead ask their authors to unlist those automated communities. This way, people who want to occasionally read posts from niche Reddit communities can still access them without hurting proper Lemmy growth.

My first thought was Advanced Encryption Standard 😅

Did they defederate from PieFed as well?

Edits: looks like it’s only about Feddit: https://lemmy.ml/post/42987909

Secondly you’ve not provided any proof that Zelensky is a “gangster”

I think Cowbee said “Kiev is a gangster state with immense corruption” which is a bit different.

For almost 2 years, people have been violently kidnapped from the streets, thanks to this totally non-gangster state, after they loosened the laws (which Zelensky signed, BTW). For example, here (violence warning!) is a yesterday video from Odessa. And we get video like this every day. It’s like ICE in US, but much worse because people can’t protest against it due to ongoing war.

And recently we had a ton of corruption scandals tied to Zelensky’s inner circle. You can just scroll below, someone already linked.

Thank you!

Is it planned to allow multiple gallery/carousels? Basically, the ability to attach multiple images to a post. Currently, I simply embed images into the text, but it would be nice to be able to scroll through the images without opening a post.

Edit: found https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/5693.