YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie

https://lemmy.cafe/post/5410933

YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie - Lemmy Cafe

Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342] Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] and lemmygrad.ml [http://lemmygrad.ml]. Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed): https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/] Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] tankie censorship problem: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417 [https://lemmy.world/post/16211417] And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances: https://lemmy.world/post/16235541 [https://lemmy.world/post/16235541] What is a tankie? Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie]

Well this is news to me. The whole thing; created by Marxists, etc, etc.

Wtf?

This gets posted here on a near daily basis, I’m not sure how you missed it.

.world and .ml have been feuding practically since Lemmy went live. The .world folks insist .ml are full of fascist tankies who hate freedom. The .ml folks deride .world as a cesspool of white nationalism and hatred of the third world.

But the “problem” appears to be that one instance can’t shut down the other. So we get these endless struggle sessions with the same angry sets of links and vows to defederate at all costs.

Thank goodness nobody is locked into any one instance. The beauty of the fediverse.