Remember to donate to your server admin. Running a server is expensive, not to mention the time and effort that goes into maintenance
Tbf the admins of lemmy.ml are the ones who actually develop the service. They deserve our thanks also.
Thank Dessalines for Lemmy and Jerboa
People who name themselves after genocidal warlords can make some pretty good software
I can thank them for their development efforts, but not on how they run their instance.
‘I would like to enjoy the benefits of collective efforts without supporting the political ideology that makes it possible in the first place.’
What makes it possible is the material conditions.
Are you sure it’s possible because of toxic ideology, or despite it? I may want to see the math on that.
You can’t think why people interested in collective benefit and free dissemination of tools, while rejecting free markets and the profit motive, might have some meaningful overlap with believing in socialism?
There are endless positive but fundamentally dysfunctional ideologies. Anything which doesn’t address how large populations behave is dysfunctional.
Edit: Ideas about making the world better but which are stupid ideas = positive ideas, but dysfunctional. In fewer words, naive.
To be distinguished from fascism et all which are about hurting people, thus negative ideas.
This is so vague that it’s meaninglessness.
That’s why a system like China’s is the only sensible one for a large country in the present world order - leaving important things up to unregulated markets and media is an abdication of responsibility.
Lol no
There are any number of capitalist platforms. Yet here you are on one developed under communist principles. And still too indoctrinated to work out the connection.
The toxicity of the ideology vs the toxicity of users describing or supporting an ideology.
It’s like asking if NASA went to the moon because of the NKVD or despite the NKVD.
This can be done under right wing libertarianism as well. Or general green people. Idk.
A society based on worship of individualism is diametrically opposed to collective efforts.
I’m thinking more about self hosting, though.
That “ideology” is authoritarianism
- Understanding Siege Socialism - Gabriel Rockhill joins to talk about a controversial concept for Western socialists: “siege socialism”. A term coined by the great Michael Parenti.
- Third World Socialism in an Imperialist World - Rebuttal to Worthless First World Lib ‘Lefties’ - Liberal imperialists first worlders who vote for Joe Biden while calling themselves ‘socialists’ love to attack every remotely successful left-of-liberal revolution in the third world - here’s why they’re wrong (they’re also racist)
- Western Marxism & Imperialism, with John Bellamy Foster & Gabriel Rockhill - Please join us for a webinar to discuss the dialogue between John Bellamy Foster and Gabriel Rockhill on “Western Marxism and Imperialism,” published in the March issue of Monthly Review: https://monthlyreview.org/2025/03/01/western-marxism-and-imperialism-a-dialogue/
Spamming links with quotes that are unrelated?
The point was that the tankie triad are authoritarian, that’s just a fact
What did the “authoritarian” Lemmy instances do, make you eat your spinach? 😂
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“authoritarian” is a buzz word that left-liberals like yourself use to attack any country that has successful left-economic programs. Whether you realize it or not, you have been trained to deploy this label in defense of US empire.
“authoritarian” is a buzz word that left-liberals like yourself use to attack any country that has successful left-economic programs.
Not how I’m using it here, which is a direct comment on how a Lemmy instance is run. If you want to pretend the tankie triad aren’t authoritarian then you’re too stupid to discuss anything with, honestly
Whether you realize it or not, you have been trained to deploy this label in defense of US empire.
No, I haven’t, I’m one of the filthy socialists who argue in favor of many of the ideas of those regimes. You just see someone pointing out the bad of the tankie triad and make assumptions that I’m not firmly on the left and just disgusted by how high they are on the compass compared to me
That’s why the future is piefed. Lemmy is just one activitypub app.
Remember when I told you to keep it easy on the memes against .ml, hexbear and grad a few days ago? 😄
Fuck Tankies, all my homies Hate Tankies
I hate Illinois tankies.
It really has been weeks though js, and it was more thrown in, the thanks is genuine 😅LMAO
Would have probably been better with purely thanks and no diss attempt in the middle 😄
But that’s not the meme?
Could have put Spez or whoever else everyone here despise
So… You’re okay with the format and the insults, as long as it’s not against tankies?
Are lemmy.ml allies of Lemmy or not?
I respect the Lemmy devs as devs, I don’t like them as instance admins, but I don’t try to throw crap at time everytime I can.
Doesn’t prevent me from growing !linux@programming.dev , !privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com , !opensource@programming.dev
We can disagree without throwing each other under the bus
That’s a good point to make as much as I disagree with their political beliefs they do not deserve to have extra stress in their lives especially when they’re not being properly compensated for all the work they do as only 0.6/3 devs on the team are actually funded from donations, further worsened by the fact they need to split the funding amongst themselves.
I respect the Lemmy devs as devs, I don’t like them as instance admins, but I don’t try to throw crap at time everytime I can.
“Please don’t throw crap at people denying genocides and atrocities”
We can disagree without throwing each other under the bus
“Agree to disagree” is a civility politics take that has no place when dealing with genocide denial.
Would have been better if you stopped complaining.
Aggressive comment, in line with your modlog https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog?userId=870550
8 months ago and a year ago aren’t exactly recent examples
Plus one is complaining about the title being a word salad and the other one is a reply to a deleted comment. I may have been out of line, but I’m not going to own up to that without knowing the context.
Ex-Redditor reporting for duty. Thank-you for being a friend 🫡
Y’all need to work on getting r/popculture here - from Kardashian posts to getting SLAMMED for supporting Luigi is the journey we all need to be on.
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
Ty - subbed to both. Will look now.
Welcome!
We’ll go down the road and back again.
Make yourself at home!
“Await”? We’re deep into it.
Memes or it didn’t happen lmao
Have we still got any bourbons left?
There’s always bourbons left.
It’s slowly starting to look like the next great influx as seen from Fedecan stats.
I’m just here because Boost finally stopped working for Reddit.
Welcome!
The straw that breaks the camel’s back!
September forever!
DBZer0 represent
Awww yeah
Thank you admins, we appreciate you. Mostly.
Since I blocked them I tend to forget there is a Triad of rot on lemmy.
Libs love shitting on the efforts of communists, even as they enjoy the fruits of communist labor.
Don’t be butthurt.
That’s not a good argument. We (unfortunately) enjoy the fruits of many awful and unmoral ideologies. History is fucked.
Every regional instance other than .uk: :'(
Sopuli and lemmy.ca are regional
True but what about feddit.org, feddit.it, jlai.lu and so many other :(
I thought I put the .UK one, isn’t the top middle the UK instance logo?
Locking while we sift through all the reports.
didn’t the triad literally create the Fediverse? I don’t like them either but that deserves a little respect
They didn’t create the fediverse. The owners of .ml are the devs of lemmy, a fediverse software.
And the nazis created Fanta. Do they deserve a little respect for that? 🌭
no, fanta sucks
Fair.
OP is a huge anti-leftist poster on here. They’re constantly flooding the feed with this shit.
No stupid questions, right? What do they do?
Basically, Tankies are authoritarian bootlickers pretending not to be who routinely deny the human rights violations of the CCP/Russia and hold them up as the gold standard. They refuse to recognize China, Russia and even NK as being authortarian regimes or if they do, its OK/Neccessary because it takes down the west/capitalism. If you have a historical fact that puts any of those countries in a bad light, they’ll probably deny it happend/just western propganda.
Hex and Grad are very in your face about it, but .ml tends to be more subtle. So, many instances defed from those 2.
.ml is run by the head Lemmy devs who are, unfortunately, Tankies themselves and tend to enforce the Tankie mindset throughout with more subtlety through mod/admin action. Because of that, and a lot of the lemmy support forums being on .ml, they tend to get handled with “kid gloves” more or less by most instances.
You can check out !meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works or !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com and https://lemmy.world/post/26416571 https://lemmy.world/post/26047186 if you want to see more.
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Thanks! TIL I have a tankie in my extended family lol. Whenever we’ve talked about Russia/Ukraine or really anything, the response is ‘but what about the dems!’. Its weird to have someone who’s educated and seems quite rational in most ways actually believe that the pre-trump US was worse than Russia, where you really can’t be a journalist without falling out of a window. Another of their favourite arguments is ‘stop imposing your western values onto other cultures who don’t want them’ SMH. Still, I’d choose a tankie over a MAGA.
Still, I’d choose a tankie over a MAGA.
Low bar, but yeah.
Huh, so they do exist IRL lmao, you got yourself a unicorn lolol most of us have only ever encountered them online (Knowingly at least)
They are more suble IRL but deff around.
What’s the Seal instance? 🤔
Don’t forget Blahaj.Zone as they’re awesome too! Here’s to having 10k folks🍻
Sorry. Not awesome. They are more ban happy than the tankies. I’m fairly sure I got banned for referring to a keyboard as a “bad boy”. Either that or somebody was playing ban roulette.
I got banned for calling someone naive when they said they were going to vote third party last year lmao
I have seen third party vote discussions get banned but never the other way around.
Interesting
Lmao what. Blahaj is just as bad as hexbear.
