Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342] Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] and lemmygrad.ml [http://lemmygrad.ml]. Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed): https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/] Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] tankie censorship problem: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417 [https://lemmy.world/post/16211417] And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances: https://lemmy.world/post/16235541 [https://lemmy.world/post/16235541] What is a tankie? Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie]
  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 months ago

    Honestly if the Lemmy creators are ML I don't understand why they don't just tell .world to fuck off. They're not constructive to have in the fediverse and all they do is lower the quality of the place while spreading red scare style disinfo.

    • Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      Dessalines said it's because they value an interconnected fediverse, and believe in the long run it will be better to not defed from any major instance, despite the skirmishes.

      I largely agree, if Hexbear and Lemmygrad can't serve that role or don't want to, it's good to have at least one major instance to expose libs to Marxism. Even if my experience would be better on Grad or Hexbear, I still like being able to try to lead libs to theory.

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        You're a hero. I've dealt with Reddit chuds for ages but once I found this place I completely abandoned the rest of the internet, I have enough brainworms to disinfect from people around me IRL. It takes some real dedication to keep patiently talking with those nerds.

        • Cowbee@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          Imma be real, I'm just a recovering debate pervert lol. Appreciate the kind words, comrade!

      • davi [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        they sound like a better person than i.

        i left reddit because i couldn't stomach the absurdity and now my stomach hurts from seeing yet another rally cry for defederation on lemmy.world and i find myself wishing that they would.

    • thelastaxolotl [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Pretty sure one of the lemmy devs did tell them to fuck off but it was the beehaw admins who were acting like they were customers and the devs own them updates

      Thats why there was a push to get people to support sublinks because they think that building a fediverse forum from zero in java is easier than leaning rust and supporting the evil tankie devs

    • spectre [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      "being ML" doesn't mean you have to have a liberal free zone