Have you tried engaging in a good-faith discussion instead of whatever half-witted rage-bait you attempted the first time?

Serves you right for having a reasonable opinion.

Comments are wild here

Last week highly-upvoted comment on reddit claimed that environmentalism is nothing more than russian-bot fueled fad.

Not necessarily the best example in this post, but in general, I find I get downvoted a lot when I make a good faith comment in .ml posts where I think I’m agreeing and am trying to understand the topic further. Getting 20 downvotes kind of kills my motivation to engage any further, though, so I usually just delete my comment , shrug, and move on. I’ve gotten to the point where I try to avoid wasting my time and energy commenting on .ml posts in the first place.

Maybe it’s just a different perspective on what a downvote means? To me, I’m generous with upvotes and withholding an upvote means I don’t find it interesting or disagree. I use downvotes sparingly for spam, trolling, comments made in bad faith, etc.

A downvote in my mind roughly translates to “fuck off”, so if a group gangs up and tells everyone with a slightly different worldview to fuck off, then they eventually will and said group will be all by themselves in their own echo chamber. If that’s the goal, then fair enough.

Getting banned from a .ml instance is a fediverse right of passage

Holy shit can you keep this dogshit on meanwhileongrad?? Like we get it there are crazy soviets on the internet, get over it you don’t need to turn every server into meanwhile

And then they ask for donations

Cry more, bigot. I see the comments you’ve had removed by mods.

.ml is Lemmy’s The_Donald or /r/Conservative. Obviously different ideologies, but the behavior is the same. Bunch of petulant children.

this has got to be one of the dumbest posts I’ve seen here, who the fuck gives a shit

A bullshit false equivalence that only serves to amplify alt-right messaging? Yeah, I’d downvote that garbage, too.

Me: googles tankie

You went into a community which defines itself as Tankies, compared them to Fascists, and now you come here whining about it?

Lemmigrad.ml ≠ lemmy.ml

Normally when people refer to “.ml” they mean the dev instance, lemmy.ml, not lemmigrad.ml.

I’m not commenting on the substance of your post, just pointing out the mismatch.