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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wouldn't call China's stance towards Taiwan "respect". Even so, I don't have an opinion whether it's part of China or not. Perhaps only Taiwanese people are qualified to say.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (8 children)

So I bothered to look up 中國共產黨 to see if your claim that CPC is proper and CCP isn't is true, and honestly it has no merit. Being pedantic about how best to translate it into English doesn't make you smart or more knowledgeable. Internet propagandists like you for the Chinese government (oh, you'd probably insist only "government of China" is correct) tend to use these kinds of childish irrelevant arguments to deflect attention away from things that matter. I've seen similar stupid arguments in official Chinese state propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Russia is only anti-fascist in name, but fascist in its real character. Ukraine can have as many oligarchs as it wants, which doesn't justify Russia invading it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Of course Russia's government is inherently fascist. Putin and his regime are right-wing nationalists and racists.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Preferring ASM to Java is definitely not normal

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

It may be all she has in life

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

I don't think Lemmy itself can have a culture. Specific servers can, like lemmy.ml, or even multiple servers forming some kind of a community, but as long as Lemmy is federated and dcentralized then it becoming popular is not going to hurt our community. People can always go form there own community and establish their own server.

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

I'm sorry to see people somewhere on the Internet coming out against Lemmy. First of all, let me say that I sympathize with the China issue. I'm a Muslim and I have been concerned about the Uyghurs for a very long time. This is not some bandwagon that I am jumping on, and I have ties to the region as well. I moderate the Uyghur sub on Reddit, created #uyghur on matrix.org, and on lemmy.ml I have registered communities like c/uyghur and c/xinjiang. I did that mainly to promote the welfare of Uyghurs and guard against whitewashing of the situation in Xinjiang. Obviously I am pro-Uyghur, and I feel that the admins of lemmy.ml have been gracious enough to respect me as a user and a mod. I have also not seen them engage in censorship of opposing viewpoints on this issue, and we have at least once that I can remember disagreed on China's Uyghur policy here on the site. This did not result in any problem.

Please don't cancel Lemmy, because the software is amazing and the creators really are nice. I don't have to agree with them on politics in China. As long as they're not crazy about it, the situation is manageable. So far they've always been fair.

Even suppose that one day they implement a policy on lemmy.ml that says they won't allow anyone to post pro-Uyghur things. So what? It's their Lemmy instance, they can decide what's on it. I can go start my own instance. I really don't think lemmy.ml has any obligation to do what the community wants. They've already done enough by creating the software and making it FOSS.

Besides, you know how many people posted pro-Uyghur content on c/uyghur since I created it? None. So if you're concerned about how the issue is being represented on this site, maybe you could come post something sometime, or argue in the comments.

Anyway, at present I'm not recommending any other Reddit alternative and probably won't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

False dilemma, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I think it helps provide a counter-balance to the more right leaning groups trying to avoid mainstream social media.

I think this point is important regardless of political spectrum. Lots of really nasty people have migrated to alternative platforms so that they can be nasty, but I'm glad Lemmy makes it clear enough that it's not one of their nasty spaces.

 

Mi rimarkis, ke lemmy jam estas tradukita al Esperanto. Ĉu ĉi tie ekzistas iu alia esperantisto?

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