Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide
https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342
Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.
Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):
Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:
https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:
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.
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.
Hot take: .world will put it to a vote and defed from .ml before .ml does. This will split Lemmy into 2 major sections.
No way the LW admins would shut down controversy. It would impact their engagement and they wouldn’t get to see number go up.
Thank goodness nobody is locked into any one instance. The beauty of the fediverse.
good thing I’m a furry tbh
Why doesn’t your name have an @instance beside it?
Hmmmmm
Am I crazy or do I also not have one?
It’s cuz we’re server buddies!
Ahh that makes sense.
So is it … the “whole thing”? I.e., Lemmy was invented / created / etc. by a bunch of authoritarian weirdos?
I’m guessing that the question itself reveals that I don’t even understand what Lemmy is, but hey. Any help appreciated.
Lemmy was created explicitly to get away from the Reddit brand of authoritarian weirdos. Then it was made to be fungible and mutable and interconnectable in order to prevent any single mod or admin from exerting Reddit-like control over the communities at-large.
It’s a place to post. You don’t have to get much deeper than that. So much of this drama is one group of people angry at another group of people for posting wrong.
Which is very classic “old Reddit” before the mods decided dissent was bad for monetization.