I’d like to think otherwise, but i agree to some extent. I mean so far here i’ve met a few lenin-heads but i’ve met many more people who are attracted to communism as an ideal of freedom and equality and are genuinely curious about anarchism and why we don’t consider marxist-leninists to be communists (because they build the exact opposite in practice, but they don’t know about popular history)… which is a criticism we share with anti-authoritarian marxists (and most people are also not familiar with those).
I mean, i don’t know about you, but i wasn’t born and raised an anarchist. Part of my becoming an anarchist was through reasoning, debate and self-criticism (deconstruction), while another part of that was people showing me how to become a better person AFK. So i tend to assume good faith on the part of my peers unless proven otherwise and keep the mental doors open for them that were opened for me by other people.
In this case, i do not believe the lemmy admins/mods (or most of them anyway) are affiliated with a political party or a vanguard. It is my understanding they’re more part of a left-wing folklore or union struggles maybe. So sure there’s hostility towards anarchists from some parts of the community, and there’s a very worrying nationalist sentiment in some regards (for example /c/China), but i don’t really see a politburo around here, and in fact i truly appreciate that the moderation log includes “deleted” entries (at least for logged-in users) so we can evaluate the work of admins and judge for ourselves whether we belong on an instance.
So to be honest i’m practically more worried about centralization being a problem in itself, than i’m afraid admins are after us. Opening new instances makes perfect sense, and anarchist circles (most of them anyway) are usually bad at relaying/aggregating information. I think an anarchist lemmy instance could help address both concerns.
TLDR: Maybe we could start an anarchist lemmy instance?
I’d like to think otherwise, but i agree to some extent. I mean so far here i’ve met a few lenin-heads but i’ve met many more people who are attracted to communism as an ideal of freedom and equality and are genuinely curious about anarchism and why we don’t consider marxist-leninists to be communists (because they build the exact opposite in practice, but they don’t know about popular history)… which is a criticism we share with anti-authoritarian marxists (and most people are also not familiar with those).
I mean, i don’t know about you, but i wasn’t born and raised an anarchist. Part of my becoming an anarchist was through reasoning, debate and self-criticism (deconstruction), while another part of that was people showing me how to become a better person AFK. So i tend to assume good faith on the part of my peers unless proven otherwise and keep the mental doors open for them that were opened for me by other people.
In this case, i do not believe the lemmy admins/mods (or most of them anyway) are affiliated with a political party or a vanguard. It is my understanding they’re more part of a left-wing folklore or union struggles maybe. So sure there’s hostility towards anarchists from some parts of the community, and there’s a very worrying nationalist sentiment in some regards (for example /c/China), but i don’t really see a politburo around here, and in fact i truly appreciate that the moderation log includes “deleted” entries (at least for logged-in users) so we can evaluate the work of admins and judge for ourselves whether we belong on an instance.
So to be honest i’m practically more worried about centralization being a problem in itself, than i’m afraid admins are after us. Opening new instances makes perfect sense, and anarchist circles (most of them anyway) are usually bad at relaying/aggregating information. I think an anarchist lemmy instance could help address both concerns.