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      8 months ago

      It was never closed to non-tankies, but it wasn’t very welcoming. I had an account on .ml early on and most of the time I got hammered with downvotes, despite having opinions that I’d describe as being on the left edge of liberalism.

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        8 months ago

        and most of the time I got hammered with downvotes

        Downvotes are federated.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah but this was 3 years ago, Lemmy was basically only the .ml instance at that time.