Following the announcement by beehaw admins to defederate from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, there has been many posts and messages regarding that decisions and what other instances will do.
I personally believe Lemmy/kbin can only thrive if there is a free flow of content between different instances, with instance admins taking a back seat and focusing more on the infrastructure and making sure the technical bugs are smoothened out. Community mods can moderate their communities, and users can block the communities they don’t find appealing (there’s even a toggle in settings to hide every NSFW post from your feed altogether).
We don’t want to create walled gardens, nor do we want to make Lemmy more confusing than it already is for new users. We will not be defederating from any instance if there is even one good community on it that our instance users might find useful. So far we have only blocked lemmygrad.ml, and right now we have no plans to block anyone else.
Likewise, the communism Stalin implemented wasn’t true communism. Nobody gets it perfect the first time. But Washington is still praised as the founder of the USA, but Stalin is frowned upon 🤔. These are the double standards I’m talking about.
I don’t prasie Washington though. He just took what the Greeks did and made it worse.
Stalin should rightly be criticized. He took a great revolution and ruined it making people hate communism to this day.
Lenin and Trotsky weren’t that much better either before you start talking about them. Anyone remember Kronstadt?
You may not do that, but most of the US does… and everyone just hates Stalin for the things he did. Like no good could come out of that person. Maybe not good, but a good idea, sure, everyone has one from time to time.
No doubt there, he did a lot of things wrong, not to mention eliminating Lenin, but that’s beside the point. My point was, you’re obviously not stating the same about Washington or other western polititians that may have done even worse things.
And people don’t hate communism because of what Stalin did, they hate it because of a well thought of propaganda campaign made by the US. Sure, the USSR had one against capitalism as well, but it wasn’t as aggressive.
Good thing you mention Kronstadt. What you’re comparing is like the confederates having a rebellion (revolution) after the civil war, because they lost, and then wining about the unions kicking their buts. A certain social order/policy prevailed, deal with it… you wanna pick a fight with the bear again, don’t be surprised if it comes back to bite you… again.
Actually I do state these things. America bullies other nations all the time, and makes a pigs ear or it all the time too. See my comment about the Taliban, or how theg handled Vietnam. The US is almost as bad as the USSR, with the exception that they don’t kill their own people, only other people.
What you’re saying about Kronstadt dosen’t match what I have heard at all. They fought alongside each other in the revolution and then the Bolsheviks decided to bring in horrible undemocratic policies. The other groups protested this and where slaughtered at Kronstadt.
I mean TBF Washington didn’t write the constitution and it was politically untenable at the time to illegalize slavery (note: I don’t know if he was against slavery, but generally no matter who was president it would’ve been impossible).