• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I know a bunch of people from in person organizing in the US who are ML/maoist and have positive opinions of China, Russia, Cuba, etc, but it’s generally the kind of critical support you see on hexbear. A lot of them are trans/NB and have grown up in the US propaganda bubble and reject it.

    Also pretty sure both lemmy.ml and hexbear.net are blocked in china. It’s probably just because they block all foreign social media as a general practice though. If they’re looking to do propaganda work they’re probably going to do it on platforms with more people tbh.

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      both lemmy.ml and hexbear.net are blocked in china

      Correct, I had to move to this instance when I was traveling in China.

      because they block all foreign social media as a general practice

      Kinda, but lemmy.world? Not blocked, despite being bigger than .ml and hb.