Are you thinking of Unruffled and db0?

The community can’t be found through Lemmy.ml:

All this screeching about how the piefed Dev is opinionated and at the same time they block whole communities on instance level without telling their users about it? Checks out…

When I joined Lemmy, Lemmy.ml didn’t really feel different than Lemmy.world to me.

Maybe I’m taking crazy pills but it’s like they got more propagandist on purpose. As if they decided to up the anthem because .grad got defederated by all sane instances… And what’s propaganda good for if it doesn’t reach the right people?

Same with tankies having lemmy.world accounts. It’s not ironic, it makes sense.

Now Lemmy.ml became their “outreach” instance, where they ban everyone who criticizes them (even on another instance) or even for downvoting (Dessalines did that because his favorite poster ‘cowbee’ got downvoted by “bots” too much. Then they opted out on lemvotes, so no more checking yourself).

For an outsider it looks like everyone agrees with them because they upvote each other and every critic got either banned or they blocked them themselves and I’m starting to think this might be by design. I wonder how many users are banned from .ml, while still retaining general visibility through federation.

Isn’t it basically how Russia and China operate? Keep your own people isolated in a bubble where only your narrative is accepted and at the same time invade other spaces to manipulate their opinions?