To me, this is like Richard Stallman and certain reprehensible actions and opinions.
Just like with Stallman and his contributions to software, I can justify using Lemmy to myself due to it being open source and the devs not directly financially profiting from the spread of Lemmy (although it certainly raises their public profile).
It’s definitely unfortunate that they’re Tankies.
devs not directly financially profiting from the spread of Lemmy
Aren’t they though? Even if we ignore the obvious aspect of getting donations and exposure, they will also get more contributors for their project which will push them even further ahead of other competitors in this space.
I agree people might be blowing it a bit too much out of proportion at times, but then again we shouldn’t pretend that it doesn’t matter either.
My thoughts are that you should use an instance that is in sync with your ethics. That is the freedom you have with opensource.
I wish. Beehaw isn’t sending out confirmation emails and I can’t find any other ones that block the tankies.
Like I don’t mind communists and socialists, they tend to be great people. But this? “hey everyone come over from reddit! You TOO can be insulted constantly for not adoring Soviet Russia!” It’s an AWFUL look.
The things on Hexbear and Lemmygrad aren’t “communists and socialists” though. They’re just supporting straight up authoritarian regimes simply because they oppose “the west”. It’s just people shilling for Xi Jinping and Putin because they think they somehow still represent Communism.
I have more important things on my mind than internet drama. Don’t really care
Don’t like it, don’t read it. The price of freedom is that it is freedom for everybody even for those you (or I) don’t think should be free.
But the point of censorship is: if THEY don’t like it, YOU don’t read it because you don’t know it exists.
You can see what instances your server has blocked at {instance_url}/instances, there’s also a link in the footer. If you’re unhappy with your home instance blocking too much content, you can always make an account elsewhere and sub to the same communities as before. Account export is a feature that’s currently requested on the Lemmy Github so maybe that process will become easier soon.
I joined via lemmy.world because at the time the stats just looked favorable, with the limited knowledge I had (uptime mostly).
As someone with experience in software engineering you learn to differentiate between the product and the dev.
It’s especially easy with Lemmy, because every instance has its own vibe it seems. Would I join lemmygrad or how that instance is called? Probably not, but because it’s the users who in the end define the direction of an instance I see no problem.
Freedom of speech is important and if all those tanky instances are about is their agenda, they will end up in an echo chamber sooner or later, as more regular people migrate and simply drown them out.
Please excuse my ignorance: what’s a “tanky/tankies”?
The term originates from controversy among UK Communist labor-unionists over support of the Soviet Union, in its violent occupation of dissenting Communist countries Hungary and Czechoslovakia — when Khrushchev sent tanks to suppress popular revolutions against Soviet control of their countries.
Notably, this was Communist-on-Communist violence: the revolutionary Hungarian and Czechoslovak regimes were still run by their Communist Parties. Thus “tankies” were, originally, Communist labor-unionists who endorse or tolerate violent suppression of other Communists to secure the power of the Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
More recently it’s been used to refer to supporters of authoritarianism in China, which is associated with tanks by way of the 1989 Tienanmen Square massacre.
It’s a term mostly used to distinguish left-authoritarians from left-anti-authoritarians, particularly in the context of the cold war West. ‘Tankies’ notably tend to defend their left-ideology by talking up major authoritarian or totalitarian regimes (like Stalin’s or Mao’s) that also called themselves Socialist (despite such claims being problematic in doctrinaire terms). Originally used to describe the self-proclaimed communist/Stalin apologist, the modern tankie supports pretty much any authoritarian regime that opposes the West
Derisive term for communist authoritarian who support left wing ideology and also state violence to maintain their power.
Common themes include whitewashing Mao and Stalin history, and dismissing current state sanctioned violence against minorities in “communist” countries.
Where did you hear this from? That’s pretty dumb, honestly, if it’s true.
Who cares? We’re not on lemmy.ml, are we?
Careful the steps you take from those kinds of thoughts, here. Lemmy is best when it is unified. A split down the middle, even worse, three ways could have drastic consequences for the sort of community, or even segmented communities that Lemmy could become if it schisms.
Lemmy could be a center-left haven for rational thought, or in three years it could be an extremely leftist community fighting an extremely right-wing community fighting a group that wants nothing to do with either, all cut off from eachother with non-political subs and the overall community suffering as a result.
Are you saying that everyone should have the same political opinions? I don’t think so.
Each individual has the right to have their own opinions, and they have the right to express them, no matter how we might like them or not.
Blocking features exist for that reason, if something is too much for you to bear, block it and move on.
Lemmy is best when it is unified
Like reddit?
Blocking features exist for that reason
Cool, where’s the button to block lemmy.ml and lemmygrad?
I’d block lemmygrad, tbh.
I’m not blocking Lemmy.ml. They are worth a little more than one or two tankie mods. If it skews a little too far that direction, tho… maybe.
With any luck, the community itself will sway larger instances. Smaller ones… who cares?
If you want to block them as a server, go to a server that already does that, there are a few.
Lemmy will have a responsibility to thousands of users, only Lemmy is a federation. People here will come to agreements on various topics and political issues and it won’t take long before the community is split on one.
Who calls the shots when everyone has equal say? That’s when groups and hate start.
I’m not saying everyone needs to agree politically. It’s that on a long enough timeline, you’ll either be here in agreement or disdain over the political climate chosen by Lemmy together.
There’s no such thing as “Lemmy together”, Lemmy servers are individual instances of “Lemmy software” created and managed by different individuals that are totally independent from each other.
It’s like individual subreddits, managed by different mods, each one with it’s own rules and beliefs.
Weren’t some subreddits split and hated each other? YES
Did that make reddit not valuable as a platform? NO because there were still many subs with amazing people and quality content.
When you have millions of people, divisions are inevitable, it will surely happen here if Lemmy gets enough traction, but I don’t see it as a problem, reddit was fine regardless of it, Lemmy will be fine as well.
it won’t take long before the community is split on one.
People are always “split” on all kinds of topics… Conflicts and disagreements are part of the human experience and impossible to avoid… The question is how you deal with conflicts… Trying to avoid or suppress them doesn’t work…
Who calls the shots when everyone has equal say?
Nobody calls the shots, that’s the entire point… People are free to form communities and run their communities however they see fit… If a community has an issue with another community in significant enough ways, they will block each other and that’s it…
And it’s not like this is anything knew… The internet is inherently diverse when it comes to different opinions, and that’s ok…
“Who calls the shots when everyone has equal say?” this is pretty much one of the core design goals of federated services. You get say in your server. People will federate or defederate naturally between servers, that’s… The point.
I see your point and raise you the fact that I shouldn’t have to deal with people who legitimately want me dead. And a lot of tankies unironically unapologetically do. Same thing I say to the alt-right applies: Free speech isn’t a guarantee of a platform and it absolutely doesn’t mean anyone has to listen to you.
I’m gonna fill up my block list in about a day at this rate.
I’m not sure you’ve illustrated that it’s actually a bad thing for Lemmy to fragment naturally. That’s almost a certainty due to the nature of it. If Nazis started a server, which I have no doubt that they will, it will almost instantly be fragmented off, for example.
Lemmy isn’t inherently better with bigger user counts, part of the core idea is actually to have numerous smaller communities. The internet was plenty healthy before everyone all used the same platforms.
The entire point of sites like reddit, and even more lemmy, is that there are different communities with different purposes and views…
If you can’t handle a variety of different political opinions, don’t participate in them…
We can’t block them and they commingle with communities we do want to see. It’s impossible not to participate when it’s absolutely everywhere. My first thought when I came to Lemmy was “Wow, this is a better reddit.” An hour later? “Wow, this is just a tankie site.”
We can’t block them
Of course you can block them, you can block anyone you want… You can only choose to get content from communities you are subscribing to… You can choose to only get local content… And if you want, you can even create your own Lemmy instance, only allow people you want, block any other instance you want and only browse locally…
It’s as if you browse reddit/r/all and then complain that you get the content from subs you don’t want…
I know the lemmygrad.ml instance claims to be Marxist but I don’t think they’re generally taken that seriously (and not to be confused with lemmy.ml) - is that what you’re confusing? Apart from that, the federal nature of Lemmy means it doesn’t really matter what the creator’s political beliefs are.
Nah. I think the “.ml” means Marxist Leninist to them. At least that’s what one of the tanky types I chatted to on lemmy.ml said.
There are plenty of other instances to join if you don’t like the .ml servers’ opinions. From what I can see, all tastes are catered for. Just find another server.
And, no, I’m not affiliated with the .ml instances nor am I a so-called Tankie.
That’s why I’m on Lemmy.World. I made a new account as soon as I found out they were removing posts from people for orientalism. It’s great the modlog is so transparent. The greatest thing about having instances run by different people unassociated with each other is you can just do that… go to a different instance where things are much more aligned to you morally.
You have less to worry about here than you do on a place like say Reddit where they can do it pretty discretely and you’d be none the wiser until it happened to you.
Looking at lemmy.world/instances, it explicitly federates with lemmygrad.ml
Kinda worrying to me that the two biggest instances link to the biggest tankie instances.
The instance federates with pretty much all other instances as far as I understand… If you have a problem with that, simply join another instance that blocks instances you don’t like. Or better yet, create your own instances with your own rules and block any instance you don’t like…
There is no reason to cry and do nothing when the entire point of lemmy is about giving you the power…
You can just block all lemmygrad’s community, and if their users bothering other instance’s community, let the mod block them. lemmyworld is free to choose which instances to federate like you are free to block all user/community you dislike. That is the beauty of federation. cheers.
This place federates with a bunch of Nazi instances and something called ”posting lolicon rocks”, strange how you weren’t bothered by that 🤔
It’s interesting how the tankies and the neocons always immediately run screaming to calling everyone who disagrees with them a pedophile. It’s almost like y’all have a lot in common.
It’s interesting how the libs are in hysterics over t-t-t-tankies, but are totally fine with anime child porn and Nazis.
Please post proof of nazi’s. I see no Nazi’s here
I didn’t say there are Nazis here. Some of the instances this places federates with are Nazi, such are freespeechextremist (a Mastodon instance), where the first thing I saw was someone using the N and K words. I also didn’t mean to say that the person I initially responded to is a pedophile, but I did mean to say that they have screwed up priorities if they’d rather whine about “tankies” than even mention an instance that has “lolicon” in the name.
I didn’t say there were Nazis here. Some of the instances this place federates with are Nazi instances, such as freespeechextremist (a Mastodon instance), where the first thing I saw was someone using the N and K words. I also didn’t mean to say that the person I initially responded to is a pedophile, but I did mean to say that they have screwed up priorities if they’d rather whine about “tankies” while not even mentioning an instance that has “lolicon” in the name.
Everything’s federated after any user tries looking at something there, and only gets defederated after the admin adds it to a block list. If the admin’s not aware of the noncery, they won’t have defederated it yet. If it’s not defederated relatively quickly, I imagine most people here will switch to an instance that gets rid of things like that more quickly.
As for why it’s not been noticed but the tankies have, it’ll be because it’s really easy to accidentally run into lemmygrad.ml posts, as they’re getting upvoted and commented on faster.
You can block subs yourself, right?
I see lemmy.world as the most unrestricted and neutral instance now.
As a Mexican I’ve been dealing with stupid cartel blogs my whole life, I don’t really care anymore. I just vibe with the 99.9% of people that is sane.
What’s a cartel blog?
“last week at Cartel:”
I imagine so many funny things lol
What do those cartel blogs look like?
We’re gonna need more info on this
Please tell us about cartel blogs, it seems like a bad idea for an illegal organization.
Well today I had someone support the Tienanmen Square massacre, another say the war of aggression in Ukraine is a denazification campaign, argue that nothing is happening untoward to Uighur’s in China and assert that Pussy Riot “is a CIA op” lol. Yeah. It’s over run with brain dead tankies. They suck. That instance will get defederated eventually if Lemmy actually takes off, and good riddance
That was the main reason why I switched to lemmy.world; never looked back. Plus, Ruud (the admin of this instance, runs also a Mastodon instance) and actually upgrades the server so it can handle all new traffic. Lemmy.ml is often down because it can’t take the heavy load.
Do you have any proof of that? Just curious where you got that from (:
There was some discussion just before the Reddit influx, actually: https://lemmy.ml/post/1167199
Edit: Also read through the history of Lemmy for some info on the motivations.
I have no problem with the admins of their instance running it however they want, and they made a really cool project and I appreciate that for the most part they do not have a problem with people who disagree with them. I think people should think twice before re-creating all of their favorite reddit subs on that instance though.
No proof, I just heard about it. A buddy and someone on reddit told me about “tankies on lemmy” which I dismissed as drama at first, then I heard it’s actually the main devs too, then I did a quick google search and search on lemmy here, it seems universally agreed upon at least in those threads from what I can see.
I can’t verify their censorship, but they also run Lemmygrad. If you take a look around there you’ll find literal propaganda. The solution is to not interact with lemmy.ml at least that’s the solution in my opinion.
