Source: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/19656844
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Remember that this is the fault of the countries wanting to join NATO so they can help the countries defend themselves against Russia and anything else you might hear is western imperialistic propaganda.
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Being a communist is fine, it’s the simping for authoritarian regimes that are communists-in-name-only (CINO) and genocide denying
I’d bet a whole paycheck that if Russia was aligned with Israel instead of the US they’d be defending the Palestinian genocide instead
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Really rooting for Piefed because of this
Come join us!
I have an alt on one piefed instance, just waiting for Voyager to support it a little better
Wait, I can use my piefed account on Voyager? I didn’t realize it could do piefed at all
Instances have to enable the API, but yes and it works about 95%. Replies only shows me messages, so I don’t see comments other than that haven’t noticed too much that needs fixing.
It shows me replies too. Actually I use it more than webui now.
Yup, pretty recently
Authoritarian bootlickers are not real communists.
True communists give the power to the people, not a dictator.
i wonder were they ever on reddit? any of these people and got banned from them and decided to make thier own platform.
I was checking out Reddit recently, and there are plenty of tankies there, they don’t seem to be doing so badly, so I guess you have to be a tankiest tankie to get banned there.
im guessing if they are in thier niche subs, like a pro russia or china one they are safe. the mods sometimes can escalate the ban to an admin if they get pissed enough, the new thing is reddit has increased thier anti=spam filters.
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I’ve already blocked this… place. It might be a bit too much to block an entire instance, but their behavior is concerning.
Wait… you can block an entire instance?
Might be client-dependent, mine allows it
yes. i blocked the triad of tankies and any extremist posts/and porn. you can go to settings>BLOCKS(YOU CAN block communities, people, instances)
I know about hexbear and .ml, but what’s the third tankie instance?
Lemmygrad
Oh, darn, I forget about this instance! Thanks.
i always forget about grad, we encounter .ml and hexbear the most if your not blocking them. .ml users do make appearances on occasion in other posts.
In the Voyager app it’s under Settings > Filters & Blocks > Blocked Instances.
I think it’s interesting that RT said that trump is Russia’s counterpart. They’re saying he’s an authoritarian POS too.
Eh. That’s actually a pretty standard thing journalists do. What it means is that Both of them are presidents of their respective country.
trump is basically copying putins own govt, install loyalist, have said loyalist constantly fight each other, so no one can oppose you, weaken the military/ economy to achieve the same effect, have your own secret police.
… While I very much have strong issues with the tankie/horse shoe theory propaganda…
y’all are really suggesting boycotting lemmy.ml because the head admin there is an a-hole… while using lemmy… that said admin is the head dev of.
To paraphrase, NWA said “fuck the police” when they meant “I’m profoundly disappointed in the police for their barbarism and abject bigotry.” Do I think the police are a net positive to society? Yes. Do I wish they’d stop being power tripping pricks with clear sociopolitical biases that serve as a detriment to everyone in contact with them? also yes.
fucking bootlicker, do better
Do what better? Verbalize why I don’t trust the police or complain about web devs?
Code is code, open source is open source.
Lemmy is coded to be a link aggregator type social media, there’s nothing inherently political about it.
It’s the fact that they use their supposed “test instance” and their influence as the Lemmy developers to spread their “message” because they know that it’s going to be difficult for other instance admins to defederate from the “Dev instance” that’s the problem.
And indeed that’s pretty much what’s playing out, most instances defederate from the first 2 of the triad fairly easily, but when it comes to the .ml instance admins are hesitant. Even though .ml allows much of the same crap, just “tempered” under the surface.
Not all of us. But yes. And?
Being the developer of a software is one thing. Software is basically a tool. Good or bad is in the use of it. In application his use is bad. But plenty of us see the likely writing in the wall and are making moves accordingly as well.
Come to piefed. Then you won’t have the moral conundrum.
They’re are dozens of us!
I don’t intend to use an app, so I was wondering whether piefed had multiple browser layouts or themes? The absence of separation between posts makes it feel like a vertically oriented newspaper archive and that frustrates me in an utterly unique and anxiety-inducing way.
I don’t really want to use any software when the administrators/developers of this software do not recognize the genocide of my people (or other peoples) and speak similar tankie nonsense. Lemmy is not very popular as it is, and I don’t think it will become more popular if the administrators/developers are… like this. The good thing is that it’s open source, and there are alternatives.
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Normally, yes. However, the Lemmy devs thrust themselves into the spotlight with their words and actions (dessalines themselves has posted Tankie content, just recently a meme about the DPRK dictatorship being “western propaganda”) through their instance
If they just had alts on grad or hex that no one knew was them, or hell ran grad or hex with said, we wouldn’t be here on this comm today.
Instances would just defederate them and move on, but they don’t want that because it reduces their audience.
Agreed. But sh.itjust.works appears to be lemmy and not any of the (probably not the right word but) forks.
And, to be clear; No ethical consumption under capitalism, yada yada yada.
But calling for a boycott of a dipshit’s instance using the thing that gives his instance its power is just… I would use a simile involving McDonald’s but lemmy is still reddit enough that NOBODY will ever look at a metaphor in good faith.
I think you’re missing the point of what a boycott is accomplishing in this case. I don’t think it has anything to do with their financial situation, the boycott is presumably (from my perspective) to lower interaction and engagement and make it a less attractive instance for new people to get sucked into.
That’s entirely the point. The less traffic .ml has, the less influence it has over the overall Fediverse and the less their harmful authoritarian views can be spread. New users that sign up on Lemmy are constantly exposed to their curated extremist views and get banned for dissenting, which puts a bad taste in their mouths and they tell everyone else what a tankie shithole Lemmy is. Dessalines and Davel are actively harmful to the entire platform with their behaviour.
I ditched lemmy and went to piefed exactly for this asshole (dessalines).
Also I don’t get why some people defend said asshole while there have been tons of threads roasting in unison software like Brave or Hyprland or IDK what else for their dev being transphobic or racist or whatever. I’m not a fan of either of those, but it just doesn’t make sense to me.
The software is open source and free. As long as it remains so, whoever is developing it is of little consequence.
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A couple of issues, on Lemmy “block” isn’t block it’s barely a mute. The only way to get a true block, is to be site banned by an instance. This is likely the way dessalines wants it, because it’s quite ridiculous.
And it doesn’t help retain new users who might not be clued in on needing to “block” them. Scaring away new users. It will only get worse, if everyone “in the know” block them, then who will be left to downvote and show resistance to their “viewpoints”?
And it still allows misinformation “articles” to spread and fester via the network, causing harm. To users, to the rep of the Threadiverse and its growth.
The only real answer is as wide a defederation as the rest of the triad is treated
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Hours old account
Using the same phrasing as another troll account
Nothing but a lil troll lmao Doesn’t even have the cajones to troll with their main
Any new account from lemmings.world or lemmy.cafe that acts like this is the same user evading bans. They can be safely reported and ignored, they get banned very quickly. They’ve been doing this since last year.
if everyone “in the know” block them, then who will be left to downvote and show resistance to their “viewpoints”?
That’s the problem I have with communities with people of the same opinion, safe spaces, circlejerks
They will have a huge confirmation bias, be comforted in their beliefs and this might be harder and harder to revert, and might make people more extreme
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