Hypersensitive tankie mod

I don't block them, but I use non-ml communities in preference to ml-based communities. I don't think that I'm currently subscribed to any ml-based communities.

And fuck off whoever that tells me again to set up my own instance. What I want is popular instance admins and mods to

Seriously though you're making demands that other people work for free in a manner that will benefit you.

Way I see it, either take some of the free lunch that's on offer or make your own.

And there's no seamless multiaccount Lemmy client yet.

..except all of them. At least for Android.

Here's the one's I've used with seamless multiaccount functionality: Liftoff (RIP), Jerboa, Thunder, Connect, Boost, and Voyager

Sync too, but I only used it briefly because fuck ads.

free speech instances that get defederated at the speed of light are of no use.

I use lemmy.today. The instance policy there is to try to avoid any defederation, and thus far, it has an empty blocklist.

Now, that doesn't mean that there won't also be instances that will defederate with your favorite instance. But, you know, people aren't required to listen. You can only speak to people who want to hear what you want to say. I think that that's probably really the only reasonable way for things to work. I mean, even user-level user blocking and choosing what communities to view is a form of filtering content.

Orientalism is this stuff.

Idk I personally enjoy seeing terms I learned in grad school being thrown around in a mod log.

Paradigm shifts keep the brain nimble.

Treating Asian culture or people as a particular stereotype.

Yeah, me too. It's a great feature!

You can in a link from your profile tab in Voyager, that's were I got the dark mode screenshot from 🙂

Exactly what prompted me to comment, since the blog that sourced Al-Jazeera also added certain details that didn't seem based on anything like actual evidence. Although I admit it wasn't anything near as extreme as the IDF canibalizing babies.

If we must call out pro-Israel propaganda that makes outrageous, unsubstantiated claims like that, we must do the same for pro-Palestinian propaganda, regardless of how we personally feel about the conflict.

This….. is fucking brilliant.

I don't like gourd veggies. Is that McCarthyism too?

This engine is McCarthyism.

It's just a job for them, at the end of the day.

Sure would be nice if your instance would allow you to rebut op with your view of the situation rather than scrub their comment and ban them. Lemmy needs more content to grow and over active jannies don’t help on that front.

Frankly everything these days is a matter of option. You aren't going to get anywhere by trying to force an issue. A mod should simply let the community correct any factual errors so they are not getting involved.

To be fair discussing politics online was a disaster on day one

see Baader-Meinhof

Yep the whole thing was, in retrospect, the second wave of denazification. Less so about the actual ideology, but deeper attitudes underpinning it. Things like the Jubelperser incident are completely unthinkable nowadays. The attitude by far isn't dead yet as you can see e.g. when it comes to the reaction to Extinction Rebellion but it's quite a ways from its former harshness and unquestioned acceptance.

And just for the record: The RAF's methods were never in any way popular. A cultish splinter group of a splinter group with very problematic internal dynamics not taking long to be more occupied with employing terrorism to free its members from prison than with any political struggle. Lots of issues with the urban guerilla in general, CCK Philosophy has an essay about it.

Reducing the whole 68 movement in Germany to the RAF would be doing it a great disservice.

I'm glad we don't use Lemmy, oh wait

I didn't let that prevent me from using Lemmy, however, I found that I liked Mbin a lot better. Fedia.io has become my favorite forum type website.

Until you realize some of these long time users are likely sockpuppet accounts of said devs.

But I find it rather funny and in the end their political believes while themselves sitting right in the "imperial core" are harmless. Armchair tankies.

Who is "we"?

The lemmy devs run lemmy.ml. They're kind of...out there, politically.

The lead dev, dessalines, has material like:

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/socialism_faq.html

Admitted to supporting and arming Neo-Nazis and other ultra-nationalist groups like the Azov battalion in Ukraine to overthrow it’s former pro-Russia govt, 2. Ukraine now has a pro-US, nazi-glorifying government with ultranationalism, anti-semitism, neo-nazi pogroms, and attacks on LGBT groups.

Dessalines is in the "we need the Soviet Union back and Stalin is awesome" camp. He was using a picture of Stalin as his profile picture for a while.

You can ask your own instance admin if they're willing to defederate

Tankies on lemmy are absolutely that stupid. I argue with them all the time. And like OP, I get posts removed and banned often. Across several accounts.

Yes, the world really is this stupid all around.

Well, that's the glass-is-half-empty view.

Another way to look at it is that from an evolutionary timeline standpoint, we're a bunch of hairless ground apes quite recently spending most of our time living in caves in groups of maybe 150 at most. We've been, in an evolutionary blink of an eye, propelled rapidly into a horribly-different and rather-confusing environment, and still trying to get by on our cave-dwelling adaptations. And in that context, perhaps we're doing quite well.

It has been observed that if the last 50,000 years of man’s existence were divided into lifetimes of approximately sixty-two years each, there have been about 800 such lifetimes. Of these 800, fully 650 were spent in caves. Only during the last seventy lifetimes has it been possible to communicate effectively from one lifetime to another—as writing made it possible to do. Only during the last six lifetimes did masses of men ever see a printed word. Only during the last four has it been possible to measure time with any precision. Only in the last two has anyone anywhere used an electric motor. And the overwhelming majority of all the material goods we use in daily life today have been developed within the present, the 800th, lifetime.

-- Future Shock, Alvin Toffler, 1970

You're right that they aren't real communists, that's a mask they wear to spread Kremlin and CCP propaganda.

The idea that they're run by the US government is ridiculous, they're full of hateful anti-Western content.

Yeah, its the stark advocating of minority rights/protection on one hand and the intense jerking off of dictators with the other that breaks my brain with Tankies

I dont know anybody on .ml, lemmygrad or hexbear who supports russia, i really dont know where the lib world people got that strawman from.

But they’re not useful at all. Even to the cause. They just make the whole agenda seem mindless and smug.

First off, …HEY! 🧐

Secondly, this isn’t “Goldmember”. Should I arbitrarily hate other countries for shits and giggles? …And who says I’m even Dutch? Maybe I’m like Kirk and I only work in The Netherlands.

Thirdly, they seem to love to hate on Apple there. I had the comeuppance to suggest Jen Simmons and the Safari team actually read the bug submissions (and she’s recently been on numerous videos, podcasts, and in posts on Mastadon saying so) and pushed back on their emoji-malarky.

On some instances, opinions other than the admins need not apply. Hopefully you’re not suggesting as much, even with the digs at the Dutch (who aren’t that bad, but like many, many other countries, aren’t all good either).

@dialup.cafe

https://mastodon.online/@HollandJim/112236465237857213

Clearly I’m a bastard.

Interesting. Reddit does prompt you to give a removal message, or did at one time.

.ml tends to slap "rule 1" on everything, which says don't be a bigot, even if that's obviously not what the comment was about.

It just silently goes through, but nobody else can see it. I only know it happened because of the modlog. Weirdly enough they got me the first time for mild criticism of Israel, which I did not expect to be an issue on there.

Makes sense!

It's funny to me that they don't admit what they said but want sympathy apparently.

Basically, it's flat Earth theory but for geopolitics. They believe the exact opposite of what everyone else does so they can have a tight-knit community devoted to being smugly superior to the sheeple.

Hexbear falls under this umbrella, right?

Does this break the rules of the fediverse?

even BRICS are bad now?

I don't believe lemmy.ml's are pro russian, at least not in that way.

Instances operated by pro-Russian or pro-BRIC individuals/groups

"Everyone I Don't Like is Hitler An Evil Foreigner"

How to block? And I'm still a bit confused about instances. How do I know which I joined?

Thanks. I wanted to create a Lemmy account and this one seemed like the the most generic default one, huge user base, ran by the Lemmy devs, all right surely it's the safest, most non-controversial choice.

Then I see stuff like this.

More like "Rule 1 - Selective Enforcement"

They give tankie talking points a lot more leeway.

ideally, when we subscribe to a community but we block the instance, the behavior of the software should be that we would see said community ... but in fact, I really don't know what Lemmy software does in those cases.

How is that McCarthyism?

Nothing your said was wrong and wtf is McCarthyism even?

No, I'm not appealing to that. Fuck nazis. (I don't actually see how my comment could be interpreted as that since my comment was in response to users complaining about having their content removed from other instances or communities, which if anything would make them the free speechers (I'm not saying that they are))

Lemmy, in contrast to centralized platforms doesn't force you to be restricted to the rulings of a single group of people under threat of being barred from using the entire platform.

My point is, when you are talking on another instance, you are a guest there and it is completely expected for them to kick you out if you don't abide by their house rules or if they don't want you there anymore for whatever reason. While it doesn't mean they shouldn't be criticized for it, the impression I got from the comments on this post is that they think it is some kind attack to a basic human right to remove their comments from a foreign instance and that admins should allow all content your instance allows.

The same can be said about the reactions people from other instances display towards news of some instance defederating from the instance they are on.

I don't mean ban evasion, I mean posting about it on another instance

It just looks a lot like posting about a break up. Usually you get only half the story and the other person is made out to be crazy

What makes me seem like a crazy fucking psycho there?