Imma scurry back to my radical left safe space. Personally i know all ya’ll are based, though. Communism and marxist-leninism is still a bad word in centrist lemmy spaces, apparently.
Original post: https://feddit.ch/post/4129197
Original comment:
Can someone explain like what are the lemmy devs political stance?
They’re tankies, ie radical communists who support authoritarian regimes like North Korea and the CP, and fully support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The devs also onboarded someone who openly said many times on October 8th that “all Israelis are valid targets”, “anything that moves and isn’t Palestinian is a valid target” and “there’s no such thing as an Israeli civilian” and he’s still in their team. On their own instance lemmy.ml (their choice of the mI TLD is a reference to Marxism-Leninism), if you mention the Tiananmen massacre you get banned for “orientalism”, and if you say that Hamas are terrorists you also get banned for “bothsidesing (sic)”.
Does that leave a stain on Lemmy, the open-source project? Yes, for sure, it leaves Lemmy with a very questionable governance, and weird decisions like the absence of any prioritization of work on moderation tools and the very weird and completely random fact that they suddenly disabled sign-up captchas last summer leading to a bot infestation of most instances. Coincidentally, tankie instances like lemmygrad and hexbears rely on brigading, bots, and cyber-harassment to spread their poison, and strong moderation tools would hinder them a lot. Now does that make it impossible for Lemmy to succeed? No, it’s again an open-source project, and it can be forked away from the tankies at any time. In fact, there’s even a highly credible rewrite in Java currently whose goal is to be 100% API-compatible with Lemmy: https://sublinks.org/ (see the announcement here: https://lemmy world/post/11005411 )
Reply:
I don’t think forking lemmy is a good idea honestly, let’s stick to what we have and what currently works well. The beauty of lemmy is that, you can make an account on a hexbear/lemmygrad instance to see what’s up, and switch back to your main instance with more reasonable, less extreme content. But also I vibe with some of lemmygrads less delusional communities. I’m on dbzero’s server who federates with hexbear but not with lemmygrad and i find that to be a nice balance of content. I find it reductive to say that anything on hebear/lemmygrad is “tanky” shit, because there are some legitimately great communities in either one (hebear, for instance, has communities about socialism and marxist philosophies, which I find to be intellectually stimulating and not at all radical, though some would disagree. And chapotraphouse has got some spicy leftist memes)
True, sympathizing with terrorists and supporting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is a bad look, but there’s good info on the radical leftist corner of the internet. Of course some people post insane shit to get attention and that’s unfortunate. But I believe these instances at its heart safe spaces for Marxists, Marxist thought and the growing global leftist movement which I personally believe is a harbinger for change in the world
I say let’s cut the bad shit and preserve the good bits instead of throwing out the entire block of cheese
highly credible rewrite in Java
why this not in dunk tank?
Seriously. What an utterly strange idea. It looks like a direct clone anyway, so I struggle to see the purpose; an enormous amount of work for little to no gain.
fed.ditch
Why would anyone name themselves that, incredible self-own
They’re tankies, ie radical communists who support authoritarian regimes like North Korea and the CP
“I find Marxism to be intellectually stimulating and not at all radical.” Ok Kautsky, you don’t have to brag about not thinking about the implications of ideas being true.
I can see people are still pissed at me for saying that literally all Israelis are valid targets for killing. I still stand by that position and wish all zionists a very die.
oooooouuuu the poor lil’ Israeli civilians were FORCED out of the safety of Israel to settle on dangerous frontier land because their ancestral homes of New Jersey and Europe weren’t safe enough. They simply HAVE to kill Palestinians and Gazans because they are human shields of Hamas, they aren’t FORCED to live there or anything like that unlike our precious whi- uh indigenous Israelis
The adults are “civilians” about as much as nazi Germans were. Half of them are IDF conscripts, and most of the other half are fascists just the same.
I feel bad for the children caught in this, but Hamas has done a far better job avoiding killing them than “israel” has even with their inferior and less precise equipment.
