BarackObamaJul 19, 2023

Longtime Lemmy Users: aside from sheer size, do you feel like the site has changed since the influx of reddit refugees, and if so, how?

https://lemmy.world/post/1787848

Longtime Lemmy Users: aside from sheer size, do you feel like the site has changed since the influx of reddit refugees, and if so, how? - Lemmy.world

I’ve not been here long, but I’m curious how users who were present before the reddit drama feel about any potential changes to the content and tone of discussions.

Show thread██████████Jul 19, 2023
Yes it’s full of liberals now this used to be a leftist safe zone. Soon they will be mods and any dissent will result in permant ban
Show threadvarzamanJul 19, 2023

What? The whole point of Lemmy is to be defederated. A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.

You legit mad that most people are communists lol.

Show threadKichaeJul 19, 2023

A leftist safe zone still exists, they have their own instance.

The leftist safe zone is and always was a lie, anyway. They're just fascists LARPing as a communist vanguard.

Show threadpurahna
I have never once met a person who talks like this who has also made a good faith effort to under Marxist thought. Why are you so confident? We’ve been around for hundreds of years, we have a lively and robust intellectual landscape, and calling us red fash without even making an attempt to hear us out hurts you more than it hurts us.
Jul 19, 2023 at 7:25pmWeb
Show threadgullibleJul 19, 2023
Communism is decent, tankies rarely are. Zealots in general are awful, in my opinion, but especially political zealots.
Show threadSerinusJul 19, 2023
Dissent = ban happens either way. I’m already banned from Lemmygrad for "anticommunism ".
Show threadicyjiubJul 19, 2023

Try going to any “scientific socialist” community and tell them you don’t believe what Trotsky said about the Kronstadt sailors.

Watch criticism of party structures and leaders get flattened into base-anticommunism.

I’ve read and listened to plenty of Marxists, enough for me to trust in their analysis, and not their ability to talk to people who don’t know how, or don’t want to learn how to walk on your eggshells.

Show thread██████████Jul 19, 2023
Thank you sir for helping defend us. I’m not very smart but I try to say what I can
Show threadOhthereyouareJul 19, 2023
I’m dying. This is my favorite comment of yours by far. I’m amazed that you realize that you have some deficiencies in the intelligence department. Fuckin brilliant
Show thread██████████Jul 19, 2023
You don’t have to be smart to want people to not be hungry