Mastodawn

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Unsubscribed from [email protected] - Lemmy.zip

Soon after I joined Lemmy a few years ago, I searched for communities based on my interests and subscribed to the ones with the highest numbers of users to ensure they are active. Sometimes I joined multiple, but then saw that some people post the same thing to more than one, cluttering my feed, so I left the smaller ones. It’s only after my community ban from [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] for disagreeing about Ukraine [https://lemmy.zip/post/39086280] that I was told about MeanwhileOnGrad, learning exactly what “the tankie triad” means and why big Lemmy instances have defederated from those. Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml], where the ML probably stands for Marxist-Leninist, seems to have been defederated by fewer, possibly because it’s run by the creator of Lemmy, Dessalines. Nevertheless, there is evidence [https://lemmy.zip/search?q=dessalines&communityId=14251] of Dessalines holding the same authoritarian communist views as the rest. Recently, there were two posts on [email protected] [/c/[email protected]] about Signal, but then in both cases, admin davel (who is known on MoG for seeing [https://lemmy.zip/post/46637982] CIA’s hand in running Ukraine, among other things [https://lemmy.zip/search?q=davel&communityId=14251]) and Dessalines linked (1 [https://lemmy.zip/post/61083394/25384559], 2 [https://lemmy.zip/post/61109551/25386359], 3 [https://lemmy.zip/post/61109551/25391070]) the same article by Dessalines, which not only argues Signal could be a CIA honeypot (as if it matters when proper e2ee is used), but also manages to shoehorn China even into that, claiming its government “prefers autonomy”. This sort of portrayal of totalitarianism as sovereignty is the reason I unsubscribed from the community. As it has been said by others, ML is not a neutral instance but a means of pushing authoritarian views onto unsuspecting users.

Tar_Alcaran 1d ago

Your life on the fediverse improves significantly if you just block the entire lemmy.ml and hexbear.net instances.

Getting closer and closer to that! The reason I made this post to begin with is to do a PSA, because it took me months of being subscribed to games on Hexbear to notice it’s not a leftist community as it presents itself, but authoritarian communist. So I can’t be certain all of their users are in the know, but is it worth keeping the instances unblocked if the bad outweighs the possibility of good?

Alcoholicorn 1d ago

it’s not a leftist community

Someone should tell their anarchists. If you only want to interact with pro-imperialism leftists, that’s ok.

Are you aware Russia and China are imperialist too

Alcoholicorn 1d ago

Russia maybe, but imperialism doesn’t just mean “big country does stuff” or what you’re referring to with China; big country refuses to balkanize against the wishes of it’s own population. We know what imperialism looks like in the neocolonial era, it’s comprador governments kept in place with military aid, selling the people’s labor and resources for pennies to their benefactors.

Compare the development of countries that work with China to mutually develop, resulting in production of higher-value products, verses say French Africa exporting raw gold and coco to factories owned by France for over a century, with as much poverty today as a century ago, or South America’s century of “developing” without ever approaching the living standards the first world enjoys off their labor.

SreudianFlip 1d ago

Tibetans were invaded in an act of colonialism and live under colonial occupation. If you don’t think so you haven’t talked to many Tibetans about it.

Alcoholicorn 1d ago

invaded in an act of colonialism

They were a slave-based theocracy who was liberated. While I don’t know much about current policy and recent history in the region, Its hard to take any criticism seriously from someone who doesn’t acknowledge freeing slaves as unambiguously good.

Nope, never been to Tibet. Have you? What Tibetans have you spoken to?

Sarah Valentine (she/her)21h ago

They were a slave-based theocracy who was liberated.

It was none of their business and they didn’t leave after. Cool motive, still colonizing.

Alcoholicorn 20h ago

Should have left so the US could airdrop their former slave-masters into the country with a shitton of guns, like they did?

Sarah Valentine (she/her)19h ago

What part of “none of China’s business” do you not understand?

Alcoholicorn 18h ago

You think people should just ignore literal slavery?

Sarah Valentine (she/her)17h ago

No.

Alcoholicorn 11h ago

But you don’t think China should have liberated the people of Tibet from slavery?

Sarah Valentine (she/her)10h ago

Why are you asking questions I already answered? Quit wasting my time. Fuck.

Do understand how someone can be confused that you don’t think they should have ignored it, but you also don’t think they should have freed them?

Do you think China should have written strongly worded letters to the Lamas?