Having a central committee of approval sure sounds like communism to me.... /jk
Seriously though, we are all going to want different stuff in All. As a user I would like the choice to block an instance, or not.
this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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I dont like them either, but I prefer to federate with as many instances as possible. Its our choice as users to block instances on our feeds or not.
From the outside, lemmygrad isn't prone to people seeking to disrupt other instances, nor towards actively "proselytizing" in a disruptive manner. While the whole instance is too extremist for my tastes (and I'm borderline socialist tbh), the people from there tend to be respectful and follow community/instance rules elsewhere.
It really is one of those things where having access to user instance blocking is a great idea, so the we could just avoid posts from there, but still have the users as part of the greater fediverse. I use connect 95% of the time, and the blocking it does shows an option when you run across comments from a blocked instance, allowing you to decide to deal with it or not. I really like that setup but I don't think it would be viable as a part of the lemmy software itself.
No bullshit, I have accounts on instances that haven't defederated with lemmygrad, and the people tend to be very chill when not on their instance.
For me, that's the standard I use when someone calls for defederation: is the instance as a whole the problem, is it the users, and/or is the instance actively seeking to disrupt other places. Exploding heads, as the worst possible example of needing wide defederation, was full of users actively seeking to disrupt other instances. Hexbear was actively planning that kind of behavior. Lemmygrad never has that I've seen.
Again, I'm here from another instance, and I don't have an account here, just giving an external view of things for conversation's sake :)
Just block the communities when you see them. I never see them, and I only had to block a few. I had not seen them breaking any rules, aside from maybe brigading. Haven’t seen them being bigots or anything. They’re just confused edgy western kids cheering for Russia and pretending they like communism from their shiny new iPhones.
People are also pretending to oppose slavery from their shiny new iPhones.
The slavery that’s happening in “communist” china.
I'm just saying that the iPhone "argument" is so lame. Everybody here uses electronics that use cobalt mined by child slaves in Africa. We still can, and should, point out the atrocities caused by the current system and fight for a better future.
The point is:
China and Russia aren’t communist.
Russia is right wing oil oligarchy ran by nationalists billionaires who hang out on yachts in western ports, with open conquest and old school style colonialist ambitions throughout the world.
China is basically a giga-corporatocracy with companies traded on NYSE, that does massive amounts of business with the largest American hyper capitalist corporations the planet has ever seen. They abandoned their core communist policies decades ago. They’re about as communist/socialist as North Korea is a republic. And they’ve only ventured further and further since.
Anyone who pretends to be pro communist, and also pro Russia or China is not really an ideologue, but simply anti western edgy hypocrites.
And yes, these edgy kids could totally move to those counties. And yes, you can avoid being a hyper consumer in the western world. You can avoid buying new iPhones and cheap disposable items made by slaves.
The average western moderate capitalist isn’t pretending to be capitalist. They simply are capitalist.
Someone pretending to be pro communist and also pro Russia and China is indeed pretty sad. I think we mostly agree.
The iPhone comment was not too serious. The people I see on lemmygrad come off as larpers, edgy upper middle class, highly educated, college paid for by their parents, yuppies, who are fashionably contrarian, not workers union members. And I understand that it’s ok to be a socialist and still succeed in a capitalist world. But these people are not socialist. They have no ideology aside from hating nato and hating the west, even when the hyper capitalist members of CSTO is invading a sovereign country, and destroying entire cities.
I know you didn't ask for my glittering social commentary, but your point is looking at it from the wrong angle:
Shiny new iPhones and loud, shittily tuned cars are status symbols in Russia as well. In Russia's slums, you will often see people pay their groceries using their brand new iPhone so they can flex and pretend and then they'll return to their desolate apartment with broken furniture and dishes, rusted water pipes and a dirty, fucking mattress.
People will rather cheap out on essentials and make their life miserable than to let go of their idolized brands that help them to pretend their life choices were perfect.
While I don't agree with Lemmygrad politically, they are civil, respect community rules and don't spam. It's not like they are calling for violence or posting CP or unmarked gore. If you don't want to see socialists in your feed, just block them.
gasp! not a ... hang on, let me adjust my glasses ... not a blurry outline of something resembling a tank! 😱
Come on, pal. Just read a couple Marxist books. You won't hate it once you understand it. Come on, just read Blackshirts and The Reds by Michael Parenti. Be my comrade.
One more book... I swear... The material truth will convince you, bro/sis/sib
I mean, you don't have to read a book. You could just read the Internet. But you do have to read something. It really all just boils down to whether or not you think things would be better if we had a democratic workplace instead of a workplace dictatorship. If you think the workers should share the profits instead of a couple people that don't actually do any work.
Yeah, I don't think many marxists, socialists, communists, anarcho-communists etc actually believe in democracy. Democratising work in (m)any meaning of democracy is too slow to solve many problems, I, people, humans, we have. Reading Kapital, Bread or Questions won't open the doors of occupation, be it the cell, flat or workplace door - it has no NFC.
Then you fundamentally misunderstand leftists. Leftists want the democratization of the economy. Plain and simple.
Yeah, that's a great hobby and probably very good in the long run, but you underestimate realpolitik's corruption.
The reason why communism is unstable and never works out long-term is because it relies on kindness and giving back to the community and the problem is that money-hungry sociopaths can easily exploit that.
It's just an utopia. Sadly.
That's because our culture and society says it's fine to be a money-hungry sociopath. Many pre-agricultural societies were vaguely communist and shared resources. Back then if you hoarded resources you'd be socially ostracized, lose social standing and all the benefits of being in a tribe. Nowadays we put them on the front of a magazine and exalt them for screwing over their fellow man.
That's a fair point. Didn't think about it that way.
It seems to work quite well in Star Trek. It is the closest thing to a real world application of Communism. The closest thing to real Communism was the Paris Commune. Lenin created the idea of The Dictatorship of the Proletariat as a means to rapidly develop and educate a country in turmoil with the intention of building towards a socialist society. The latter was not successful. A Communist revolution has never occurred in a developed country. Communism requires material abundance and technologic advancement. Ya know, like Star Trek.
Because tchncs understands that without free speech we have no hope of dealing with any of the problems that concern us.
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social.tchncs.de does not believe in censorship. Federation is a network service and suspension of federation with another server will only be implemented as a last resort where content from another server may cause problems under German law, or in cases of technical difficulties or hostile or malicious activity.
Because tchncs understands that without free speech we have no hope of dealing with any of the problems that concern us.
I just had a blog post detailing tax records of a software org get deleted because a mod doesn't like the guy pointing out the tax records.
overpowered mods. this is exactly how a dictatorship regime starts
sorry about that. i was sure i had it added again after the restore of our blocklist based on mastodon a little while back. it is now on the list... again... .
Thanks so much for hosting this instance.
Sorry for my ignorance, but would you mind clarifying which of your rules lemmygrad violated to get on your blocklist?
- caused problems under German law
- caused technical difficulties
- engaged in hostile activity
- engaged in malicious activity
i understand that you are disappointed and it does not have to be a permanent decision. right now i lack time and energy to give it a close look again. earlier the instance did not look like something we should federate with based on its general content and our experience.
People need to stop agitating for defederation on the basis of politics.
If you want a safe space for one or another "team," start one yourself. I'm not interested in participating on instances which engage in this type of petty behavior.
Same with hexbear.
The real question is why is blocked again.