Actually they cannot say this because they are probably employed by the Chinese Government and would be put to death if they did.
Based on what? According to who?
I lemmy user Denounce the terrible treatment Xi Jing Ping has inflicted upon the Uighur Muslims. Slavery and concentration camps in China are wrong and not ok.
I'm on exploding-heads.com rn, and having a good time so far.
I've messed around with Kbin but the software's federation features aren't working that well, so I'm sticking with Lemmy for now.
It's 100% marketing, which is what this thread is about, no? Lemmy.ml's moderation practices are bad marketing for the project as a whole.
No, it's proof that a community affiliated with the larger project can affect the project's reputation, while a community unaffiliated with the larger project typically does not do so.
The problem is that lemmy.ml is the flagship instance.
It'd be different than saying, for example, r/TheDonald gave Reddit a reputation of being right wing. r/TheDonald clearly had no affiliation with Reddit writ large, while lemmy.ml is the flagship instance of the entire Lemmy project.
I never saw Cold Pizza, but I quite enjoy the two man format. Although you're also right that adding even a third person to the discussion keeps things more interesting.
The problem is just that the lemmygrad and lemmy.ml admins and mods are giving Lemmy as a whole a bad name. The same thing has happened to Mastodon.
Can't you block or mute instances yourself?