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  • It was always a tankie den. The Lemmy developers are very openly tankies.
    They held their heads relatively low during the whole Reddit exodus, but that's about it.

    Here are some examples: https://raddle.me/f/lobby/159606/is-lemmy-still-a-tankie-platform-or-are-there-actual

    • Reading this really troubles me. I don’t like the implication that using lemmy is pushing authoritarian ideology.

      If I was born 50 yrs earlier I would literally have been put in the gas chamber. I tick several qualifiers for it.

      • Yes, it might sound worrisome, but I dont think you are pushing authoritarian ideology by using Lemmy. The code itself is fine. The code is not authoritarian. The server which hosts your account is also not authoritarian.

        Lemmy is, right now, the best alternative for a reddit-like platform. It is something created for the users, by the users. By using lemmy, you are not enriching the wallets of the shareholders. By using something like reddit, you provide content and a select few get to buy a new yacht.

        Also, plenty of people are contributing code to lemmy. It is no longer just these 2. The code is also Open-Source. Anyone can fork it and create a new version of lemmy, with compatibility with the current version of lemmy. By using lemmy, you are allowing the possibility that, at any time in the future, someone else comes and says "I have some ideas to improve lemmy, let's do this on my own terms", forks it and continues the work without massively spliting the community.

      • I don't think comparing communism with fasism, at least when it comes to exterminating ethnic minorities is accurate. this is an opinion shared by academics, including coauthors of "The Black Book of Communism" (the book which claims communism killed 80M-100M people, though the upper end of the range is the one which has more attention. this number is disputed, again also by coauthors)

        I could explain why I believe you shouldn't do this in my own words, but I will use the words of Nicolas Werth, one of the three main coauthors who distanced themselves from the book:

        Death camps did not exist in the Soviet Union.

        and

        The more you compare Communism and Nazism, the more the differences are obvious.

        Another quote I will give is from Amir Weiner an American historian and associate professor of Soviet history at Stanford University who wrote:

        [w]hen Stalin's successors opened the gates of the Gulag, they allowed 3 million inmates to return home. When the Allies liberated the Nazi death camps, they found thousands of human skeletons barely alive awaiting what they knew to be inevitable execution.

        I sourced these quotes from Wikipedia: "The Black Book of Communism", references 19 and 14.

        My point isn't to say the Soviet Union, or other states which had or have Marxist-Leninist governments are without critique, but that comparing them to the III Reich, at the very least diminishes the crimes committed by Nazis and makes analysis of the aforementioned States more muddy.

      • I think you mean 80 years. Unless there were genociding gas chambers in 1973 I haven't heard about.

        (And I would have been put in one too, just not in 1973.)

    • I am kinda skeptical as zig has admitted to using sockpuppets and retracted their statement which doesn't sit well with me.

    • Fuck I had no idea, why can't we just have nice things.

  • Ofcourse it's a Makima pfp

    • Yeah, it's hard to come up with a more tone-deaf or ironic character to pick.

  • To be clear, I agree with lemmy.ml on this, but I'm not interested in arguing that stance.

    Instead, I think the more important piece of this is that this just further validates the fact that people should be using smaller instances. A more diverse set of Lemmy instances allows defederation to be used more freely as an actual moderation tool.

    Someone who posts something an admin on another instance dislikes may see themselves banned from appearing on that instance, which when you have just two or three large instances serving all the content, is an effective shadowban on 1/3rd of the platform. More smaller instances minimizes the impact of defederation, banning, etc.

    Anyways, stop only using lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, kbin.social, and lemmy.ee. It's fine to start out there, but find a niche and an instance that fits that niche, then move over there. If you're making a community, consider putting it on a smaller niche instance that would more specifically fit your content and federating it to the bigger instances manually.

    We're all power users in here, so it's not as if it's a big deal to move, though apparently 0.19 will have some tooling to assist in that.

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