Really the problem is you don’t want to acknowledge the difference between diverging political views and agressiveness/insults/fanaticism.

You never say anything when people of your “political opinion” insult others, or call for brigading. So you let the harrasment and sealioning go on and seem happy with that. Maybe do something about it before complaining that other people complain here ?

Exactly. Promoting Lemmy/Fediverse has very much to do with learning how to moderate an instance / community.
Repeated bad behaviors should have users banned at some point. And this is way different from censorship (which exclude topics, not bad behaviors). For example you can’t invite nice interesting (leftist) people on an instance where users are terrifying others with awful stalinist claims and insults. It won’t be better than Reddit to them. Blocking the awful people for yourself is even worse because you don’t see the shit anymore, but new people will be confronted to it anyway as soon as they arrive. And this can really disgust them from the fediverse.

Exactly what I’m looking for then :) Thank you very much for the detailed answer. I will do my homework and explore there, I am really considering creating an account on Beehaw now.

Can I ask you a few more questions, regarding signing up and approval for non english speaking people (French I’d like to invite) ?

Well that’s phrased badly I guess. I like that Beehaw is a safe space for minorities, this is something I’m looking for, and I was wondering if straight anti-capitalist/anarchist content would be welcome there ?
I am quite uneducated about this instance though (lack of time), so it’s very much assumptions from me.

I’m thinking of inviting french speaking leftists from reddit to lemmy, maybe creating a community, but the tankies here who praise China’s CPC, tell Gulag was good (and sex workers would go there), say Ukraine is nazi etc. are keeping me from doing it.

I’m considering beehaw, but maybe it’s too neutral, I don’t know. I’m still wondering what to do next. The only other french instance is blocked here, I don’t know why (lemider.me)

Take this opportunity to go fuck yourself,

You’re so toxic

Salut, je me pose aussi ce genre de question. En fait je cherche la meilleure instance pour inviter des francophones.

Oh OK, I agree then. Sorry I overreacted.

Thanks for the effort.
“Blackshirts and Reds” by Michael Parenti is the kind of readings I was looking for to go deeper on the subject of “Siege Socialism”. And it’s available here : https://archive.org/details/michael-parenti-blackshirts-and-reds/page/n7/mode/2up

Could you provide the author’s names so that it’s easier to find exactly which book you’re talking about ? Some titles are not unique references I think.
I might look for some of these.

Probably because calling Xi Jinping a tyrant is entirely un-Marxist. For all its flaws, the CPC’s leadership over the State does not operate that way.

Well then Tyrant is probably not the most accurate word to describe this authoritarian regime. If it’s not Xi himself, it’s the whole CPC that is a nightmare for the workers and ethnic minorities.
Please don’t call CPC socialism, or “marxism” on here. We’re not ancap, we care for the workers (and the Uyghurs too).

For you, what are the most important theory books that people should read ? (serious question)

Is insolence towards great leaders only fun when it’s about Western countries?
It still baffles me on Lemmy how forgiving people are with tyrans, when they label themselves socialists. Really, if we need to find arguments against Xi Jinping, we’re lacking the basics…

I think he’s a beekeeper trying to get some anarkiddie into an MLM called books. But I don’t get it either.

@NormieGirl is kind of our archivist, for those like me who don’t dare to go on the other instance :D
I think the post is self-deprecating and for entertainment purpose, but you have interesting takes nevertheless.

To me reading too much theory can also be counter-productive, so it’s like you said, Theory without praxis is useless. And I like to read books, booklets, or articles, that tell of real experiences, which can then become part of our theory and help us see how we can organize ourselves, and how we might fail.

rule n° 4 is just basics of online moderation to have a safe space. And it was discussed here.

This sub is one of the only few anar subs, and it’s surrounded by hostile people who hate us. that’s not a nice feeling to have on a leftist instance.
And there is a lot of room in rule n°4 to still disagree and have discussions, no straight banning if you don’t just wanna start a fight.

the stuff lemmygrad users say about us.

Yeah, “anarchists are traitors, they slow down the revolution, they are bandits”… it’s the same uninformed bullshit here. Of course you can’t have your authoritarian regime where anarchists strive. Because this is not what a revolution is supposed to turn into…

Long live the free soviets :)
This was very interesting. Nice to see people from different countries helping out to make this vid, even someone from Russia.

Thanks for sharing your story !