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I mean… I don’t get what they’re lamenting, lemmy.ml, even if created by comrades, is a pretty liberal instance, comrades like yoghots (shout out to him) get censored and banned unjustly all the time, they just can’t stand the fact that people have ideologies differing from the democratic party.

  • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml
    59·
    1 year ago

    People not getting what Lemmy is.

    Like there’s even someone comparing it to what Reddit does with your data. I mean, Reddit sells your data lol. On Lemmygrad we don’t even have tracking software. You could add it if you want to on your instance, but it doesn’t come with a Lemmy installation.

    Or the people complaining that your vote history is exposed if you use kbin, which is not affiliated with Lemmy… like what more do you want lol. Voting is not anonymous on Lemmy due to how federation works, but it’s not exposed, it stays in the database.

    The original thread they linked from lemmy.ml is someone complaining that you can get banned from lemmy.ml for orientalism. Good?

    Lemmy as a software is the most advanced alternative anyone has to make a reddit-like website easily. It just is, nothing else comes close. They will either realise it soon enough, or they will go back to Reddit.

    • Anarcho-Bolshevik@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      11·
      1 year ago

      The original thread they linked from lemmy.ml is someone complaining that you can get banned from lemmy.ml for orientalism. Good?

      The problem is that many of the users complaining about ‘being banned for criticizing China’ can’t understand that it has more to do with their inappropriate socialization than it has to do with saying something unkind about the People’s Rep. of China. For example:

      Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and Tibet are all Colonies of China, which it treats as Colonial Territories, by - Forcibly destroying the local culture. Forcefully extracting to harm of the locals. Genocide, abuse, kidnapping, rape. But there is no point in engaging to you. You are a liar. You know you are. When you deny genocides, you put yourself on the same side as the fascists and reactionaries of the past.

      If I were younger I might have expected sympathy after being banned for spewing a deluge of serious accusations and deliberate antagonizations at somebody, but I know better now.

      Admittedly it helps that I’m already a respected user here, but a more appropriate way of approaching the situation would going to https://lemmygrad.ml/c/communism101 and asking, for example, ‘How do you respond to accusations that China has colonized Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet?’ (Notice how I don’t beg the question by saying ‘What do you think about China colonizing…’, and it’s more specific than ‘How do you respond to accusations that China is genociding, abusing, kidnapping, and raping people?’ — which for anticommunists could refer to almost anything.)

      We don’t bury our heads in the sand. We do respond to accusations that the PRC and the other people’s republics are incessantly committing atrocities. However, what does tend to get on our nerves are the users who uncritically and unquestioningly share one of the many slanderous rumors already polluting the capitalist media, and then get belligerent or persistent when we don’t immediately accept them as factual. In which case, it’s best not to bother.