Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342] Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] and lemmygrad.ml [http://lemmygrad.ml]. Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed): https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/] Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] tankie censorship problem: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417 [https://lemmy.world/post/16211417] And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances: https://lemmy.world/post/16235541 [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. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie]
  • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
    87·
    5 months ago

    It’s a real goofy time over there, haha. A lib tried to Ultra me and tell me Lemmy is Capitalist because posting is Value, and asserted that I haven’t read Marx, only being exposed to Lenin via memes.

    Deeply unserious people.

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        40·
        5 months ago

        If they try to swing back again I will, but I think they finally realized how cooked they are.

        That, or they were trolling the entire time to make me look better, but it’s .world so I doubt it lol

    • Justice@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      46·
      5 months ago

      If a website (like Twitter or facebook) make money off ads and our posts bring viewers to ads then yeah us posting creates value in some way for the capitalists who own the websites.

      I don’t think lemmy has ads though? I never see them if it does.

      Wtf was their point anyway? “You claim to hate capitalism, yet you participate in capitalism. Curious!” posting? Classic reactionary dipshittery

      • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
        44·
        5 months ago

        Lemmy has no ads whatsoever, it’s FOSS. Some Lemmy apps do, like Sync.

        Their point seemed to be that the devs are actually hypocrites and admins are basically bourgeoisie.