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- bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
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- cross-posted to:
- bestoflemmy@lemmy.world
I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A
lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. It’s
been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s
say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s
colloquially referred to as tankies. This wouldn’t be much of an issue if they
didn’t regularly abuse their admin/mod status to censor and silence people who
dissent with their political beliefs and for example, post things critical of
China, Russia, the USSR, socialism, … As an example, there was a thread today
about the anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre. When I was reading it, there
were mostly posts critical of China in the thread and some
whataboutist/denialist replies critical of the USA and the west. In terms of
votes, the posts critical of China were definitely getting the most support. I
posted a comment in this thread linking to
“https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs
[https://archive.ph/2020.07.12-074312/https://imgur.com/a/AIIbbPs]” (WARNING:
graphical content), which describes aspects of the atrocities that aren’t widely
known even in the West, and supporting evidence. My comment was promptly removed
for violating the “Be nice and civil” rule. When I looked back at the thread, I
noticed that all posts critical of China had been removed while the whataboutist
and denialist comments were left in place. This is what the modlog
[https://lemmy.ml/modlog] of the instance looks like:
[https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/6886b092-43d3-408b-ab57-2fa686f8a6c7.png]
Definitely a trend there wouldn’t you say? When I called them out on their one
sided censorship, with a screenshot of the modlog above, I promptly received a
community ban on all communities on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] that I had ever
participated in. Proof:
[https://feddit.nl/pictrs/image/9c52e470-645f-46ba-ac1d-0b7d8be17af3.png] So
many of you will now probably think something like: “So what, it’s the
fediverse, you can use another instance.” The problem with this reasoning is
that many of the popular communities are actually on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml],
and they’re not so easy to replace. I mean, in terms of content and engagement
lemmy is already a pretty small place as it is. So it’s rather pointless sitting
for example in /c/linux@some.random.other.instance.world
[/c/linux@some.random.other.instance.world] where there’s nobody to discuss
anything with. I’m not sure if there’s a solution here, but I’d like to urge
people to avoid lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] hosted communities in favor of
communities on more reasonable instances.
Everything I hate is now tankie. We must stop this by getting them to censor what we think is tankie
Lemmy.world must be full of the biggest piss babies of the Lemmyverse. All of the most annoying elements of liberalism mixed together to form the ultimate clown show.
I mean those are the redditors who got so mad about slight decrease in availability of their treat that they left and immediately after their arrival they made their instance into reddit.
Including banning posters for admitting they only post negative Biden stories.
The horror!
There are positive Biden stories?
Biden passes insert super means tested table scraps, this is a massive victory for the working class.
Depends on how blue Maga a person is
I liked the one where he fell off his bike
uhhh he paused the keystone xl pipeline
raid on corporate landlords (we’ll see if that goes anywhere)
child tax credit
oh wait he took that awaypulling out of afghanistan
basically all are from ~2 years ago
oh yeah and Amtrak is getting some much-needed investment, albeit not much
Pulling out of Afghanistan only happened because of Trump funnily enough; he set the date, which Biden pushed back a few times. Corporate landlords maybe getting hit by something would be good, and so is the Amtrak funding.
This admin really is so pathetic I can’t come up with much else…he sent out covid stimulus checks, but they were much smaller than promised. He did forgive student loans for a fraction of the populace.
He uh…signed an EO making sure migrants aren’t called ‘aliens’ any longer in government docs?
These people graduated from narcing to a teacher about the most inconsequential shit to whatever the fuck this is.