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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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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It was always a tankie den. The Lemmy developers are very openly tankies.
They held their heads relatively low during the whole Reddit exodus, but that's about it.

Here are some examples: https://raddle.me/f/lobby/159606/is-lemmy-still-a-tankie-platform-or-are-there-actual

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reading this really troubles me. I don’t like the implication that using lemmy is pushing authoritarian ideology.

If I was born 50 yrs earlier I would literally have been put in the gas chamber. I tick several qualifiers for it.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes, it might sound worrisome, but I dont think you are pushing authoritarian ideology by using Lemmy. The code itself is fine. The code is not authoritarian. The server which hosts your account is also not authoritarian.

Lemmy is, right now, the best alternative for a reddit-like platform. It is something created for the users, by the users. By using lemmy, you are not enriching the wallets of the shareholders. By using something like reddit, you provide content and a select few get to buy a new yacht.

Also, plenty of people are contributing code to lemmy. It is no longer just these 2. The code is also Open-Source. Anyone can fork it and create a new version of lemmy, with compatibility with the current version of lemmy. By using lemmy, you are allowing the possibility that, at any time in the future, someone else comes and says "I have some ideas to improve lemmy, let's do this on my own terms", forks it and continues the work without massively spliting the community.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed reading your explanation. Thank you very much.

This calms me down quite a bit. :) have a good day.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you mean 80 years. Unless there were genociding gas chambers in 1973 I haven't heard about.

(And I would have been put in one too, just not in 1973.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

[email protected]: >If I was born 50 yrs earlier

FlyingSquid: >I think you mean 80 years

You presume to know his/her age?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that happened to me once too.

OK maybe twice.😋

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Fuck I had no idea, why can't we just have nice things.