Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?
I just realised, I can't post anything on lemmy.ml
So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there's a new moderator.
All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned
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Never thought the official lemmy instance itself would have to be part of a temporary defed
As soon as the tankie stuff started coming out, I figured this was the inevitable result
Do you just call everything you don't like "tankie"? Like every post in this thread is you calling everything else "tankie." I don't think you have a good grip on what the word means.
no just the actual tankie stuff
He's not though. Look at his post history. Use your brain.
I'll leave the sad post history stalking to you, seems you've been doing a lot here
If I punch kids, but publicly I am against punching kids, then I don't punch kids!
Dude Dessalines has essays on his github where he thinks gulags were a good thing and that the holodomor was fake.
The creator kept a low profile during the reddit emigration. And since there were posts and comments about China, CCP and Jinping too. I thought it will be fine 👀
He brought in Hexbear in an attempt to silence the criticism towards China, but they quickly defederated themselves--So now I suppose he's just banning things outright.
That is not what happened.
When the Lemmy software was first created, the original Hexbear (it had a different name, then) created a fork. A development or two down the line and the two forks were incompatible. The Hexbear devs started working on a fix long before the Reddit API-debacle exodus. It wasn't easy because the fork added features that were incompatible with, let's say, vanilla Lemmy until recently. The Hexbear devs eventually made the fixes, which made federation possible again. And the long-planned re-federation occurred. The timing is a coincidence.
As for federation, Hexbear asked it's community which instances should be federated. To maintain the friendly culture of Hexbear, there was an agreement to only federate with a few instances. Before that happened, dotworld defederated preemptively. Since then, I have no idea whose federated or defederated with who because I quickly lost interest with the drama.
I should say that I'd never used Hexbear before federation with my instance. I learned all this because it's publicly available knowledge. After federation, with all the drama, I searched 'federation' and some similar search terms on Hexbear communities and learned what I've just explained. The key point is that you don't need a conspiracy theory to explain motives for and the chronology of federation because, like the modlogs, the relevant conversations are still available to read.