This seems like an odd message considering that Lemmy, as software, is being praised here; and what is being criticized are instances wherein the admins enforce apologism for authoritarian regimes.

Lemmy.ml is the original instance and the dev instance. I joined it because there was literally no alternative at the time. It’s pretty annoying being called a tankie left and right because of this

everyone keeps telling me my instance is full of tankies but im not seeing it. when i made my account this was the only instance.

also, why the fuck would we want more redditors here?

that is actually the reason I chose lemmy.ml direct support from the developers is cool

It’s pretty insane that choosing the default instance is seen as being indicative of your politics

I will never understand how you would defend an instance that is not only deep in genocide denial and praise of authoritarian regimes.

But also one whose head admin (and main Lemmy dev unfortunately) is a transphobe

have you considered that some of us are just silly goofy girls

Who play apologist for genocide and fascism.

Hai im a silly girl

Yea who cares about those little human rights violations and genocides the CCP does along the way, just sweep those under the rug!

Tankies say that shit but they don’t mean it. They could easily support and promote socialism in Western Nations but they don’t, instead the promote people like Donald Trump and try to convince people to resort to violence to tear it all down.

To them, real socialism is the enemy. “Communism” just means Eastern Power and “Capitalism” just means Western Power, it’s political tribalism at its core.

Okay, but where is the instance that is trying to model itself after slashdot? (I feel old)

It’s a bit like OSRS for reddit - an attempt to revive the reddit we all have very rose-tinted memories of. Unfortunately we seem to have forgotten about the the rampant casual misogyny, tribalism, moderator political infighting, that the 2007 XP rates were actually abysmally implemented and desperately needed retooling (and that deeply awkward “ron paul” phase reddit went through…)

So far, it’s quite refreshing. However I miss some of the smaller niche hobby subreddits, as fediverse hasn’t gained enough momentum yet. There are “channels” (?) that have like 300 people, and a post every other month, which is too small right now.

I caught a 7 day ban in microblog memes for “whataboutism” after I pointed out that leftists were not responsible for the democrat’s loss, their actions would have been wildly unpopular whether we told them or not.

.world needs a targeted marketing campaign, we just need to point to the very public mod log. The mods at .world do all the work for us lol.

And if you ask people if they’re pro-Putin and pro-Russia and against Russian crimes against humanity, you’ll get banned faster than you can say “Синдром вахтёра”

Goes for Lemmy.ml and some reason Midwest.social as well.

Edit Case in point after writing this comment angry lil’ Ruskitos brigade me and use all their mod power and remove comments like this I’ve made. Very “incivil” to call out Russian disinfo. Kek

Everyone knows those rules don’t apply when youre dunking on the instances with opinions outside of the US state department’s approved overton window.

Incivility is only when you call out liberal hypocrisy and .world, otherwise it’s sparkling marketplace of ideas.

Ah yes, wise words UnderpantsWeevil, .worlds very own resident tankie

Welcome 🤗

Um no, most don’t want just more authoritarianism. Tankies are genocide deniers or look the other way on the many human rights abuses whenever the government doing it is China or Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

In Canada, we have a conservative named Pierre Poilievre that makes nonsensical catch phrases like that every month or so. Kinda reminds me of that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes, their allies, or deny the occurrence of the events thereof. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. It is commonly used by anti-authoritarian leftists, including anarchists, libertarian socialists, left communists, democratic socialists, and reformists to criticise Leninism, although the term has seen increasing use by liberal and right‐wing factions as well.

In my book, it isn’t “tankie” until they are the kind who claim all the authoritarian regimes that were never democratic to be “communist”.
You can’t have communism without democracy, that’s the whole deal, it’s in the freaking name, community.

Claiming to be “communist” when your regime is authoritarian is like claiming to make soup without liquids.
You can replace water with other stuff like broth, or even beer and wine, to make soup. But you need a liquid to make soup. That’s soup’s whole deal. Without a liquid as the base, or if you take out all the liquid after doing it, whatever you are doing, whatever you call it, it ain’t soup.
For example, portable soup may have “soup” in the name, but it isn’t soup. It’s dehydrated food. It may have been soup once, but it isn’t soup.

Please go back to your corner.

Hai! I’m new here, are all of these comments that I can’t see from .world users? I assume .ml is defederated from .world?

ah yes, thats right! there are only two sides, western fascism, or eastern.