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this post was submitted on 12 Jan 2026
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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of "ML" (read: Dengist) influence. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.
Serious posts, news, discussion and agitprop/stuff that's better fit for a poster than a meme go in c/Socialism.
If you are new to socialism, you can ask questions and find resources over on c/Socialism101.
Please don't forget to help keep this community clean by reporting rule violations, updooting good contributions and downdooting those of low quality!
Rules
0. Only post socialist memes
That refers to funny image macros and means that generally videos and screenshots are not allowed. Exceptions include explicitly humorous and short videos, as well as (social media) screenshots depicting a funny situation, joke, or joke picture relating to socialist movements, theory, societal issues, or political opponents. Examples would be the classic case of humorous Tumblr or Twitter posts/threads. (and no, agitprop text does not count as a meme. Please post agitprop here)
0.5 [Provisional Rule] Use alt text or image descriptions to allow greater accessibility
(Please take a look at our wiki page for the guidelines on how to actually write alternative text!)
We require alternative text (from now referred to as "alt text") to be added to all posts/comments containing media, such as images, animated GIFs, videos, audio files, and custom emojis.
EDIT: For files you share in the comments, a simple summary should be enough if they’re too complex.
We are committed to social equity and to reducing barriers of entry, including (digital) communication and culture. It takes each of us only a few moments to make a whole world of content (more) accessible to a bunch of folks.
When alt text is absent, a reminder will be issued. If you don't add the missing alt text within 48 hours, the post will be removed. No hard feelings.
0.5.1 Style tip about abbreviations and short forms
When writing stuff like "lol" and "iirc", it's a good idea to try and replace those with their all caps counterpart
- ofc => OFC
- af = AF
- ok => OK
- lol => LOL
- bc => BC
- bs => BS
- iirc => IIRC
- cia => CIA
- nato => Nato (you don't spell it when talking, right?)
- usa => USA
- prc => PRC
- etc.
Why? Because otherwise (AFAIK), screen readers will try to read them out as actually words instead of spelling them
1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here
Try to keep an open mind, other schools of thought may offer points of view and analyses you haven't considered yet. Also: This is not a place for the Idealism vs. Materialism or rather Anarchism vs. Marxism debate(s), for that please visit c/AnarchismVsMarxism.
2. Anti-Imperialism means recognizing capitalist states like Russia and China as such
That means condemning (their) imperialism, even if it is of the "anti-USA" flavor.
3. No liberalism, (right-wing) revisionism or reactionaries.
That includes so called: Social Democracy, Democratic Socialism, Dengism, Market Socialism, Patriotic Socialism, National Bolshevism, Anarcho-Capitalism etc. . Anti-Socialist people and content have no place here, as well as the variety of "Marxist"-"Leninists" (read: Dengists) (actual ML's are welcome as long as they agree to the rules and don't just copy paste/larp about stuff from a hundred years ago).
4. No Bigotry.
The only dangerous minority is the rich.
5. Don't demonize previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.
We must constructively learn from their mistakes, while acknowledging their achievements and recognizing when they have strayed away from socialist principles.
(if you are reading the rules to apply for modding this community, mention "Mantic Minotaur" when answering question 2)
6. Don't irrationally idolize/glorify previous and current socialist experiments or (leading) individuals.
Notable achievements in all spheres of society were made by various socialist/people's/democratic republics around the world. Mistakes, however, were made as well: bureaucratic castes of parasitic elites - as well as reactionary cults of personality - were established, many things were mismanaged and prejudice and bigotry sometimes replaced internationalism and progressiveness.
- Absolutely no posts or comments meant to relativize(/apologize for), advocate, promote or defend:
- Racism
- Sexism
- Queerphobia
- Ableism
- Classism
- Sexual assault
- Genocide/ethnic cleansing or (mass) deportations
- Fascism
- (National) chauvinism
- Orientalism
- Colonialism or Imperialism (and their neo- counterparts)
- Zionism
- Religious fundamentalism of any kind
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https://piefed.social/
Piefed has a list of words they deem naughty built into the system. Fuck that bullshit. I'm an adult, I don't need some random nanny deciding what is and is not acceptable language for me.
It can be and is disabled by other instances.
I'm aware. But if people are going to criticize the Lemmy devs for their ideology which they don't inject into the architecture of their software it seems fair to point out the ideology of the Piefed devs that they do inject into theirs, even if said ideology is less egregious. I don't agree with the Lemmy devs on a lot of things, but I respect their ability to develop without such injections.
Also, the context here is automatic federation of communities - right? It's not a keyword filter in the sense that you're referring to.
Still an overreach, imo. Who are they to deem which communities are worthy, especially based on the "appropriateness" of the community name? It's entirely unnecessary, and Piefed would be better off without it.
Having looked at the words and code specifically in reference here, I think it's a copy and paste job from another local function (the local piefed.social retention rules)
If it's some kind of carryover oversight, that does definitely change the perspective. That said, as it exists today my criticism of nannying remains valid, so now that it's known if it is simple oversight then the devs should absolutely now remove it to the fix the issue.
Basically piefed.social scrubs all posts and comments from those exact communities (that fall under those keywords specifically) after 6 months to save on space. Rimu (correctly or incorrectly) regards memeposting as mostly frivolous and not worth saving long-term.
Which word in particular are you inconvenienced by not being able to use?
Any and all. When I limit my language it is because I have chosen the words to restrict, not because somebody else has.
I don't know what your goose image is supposed to suggest, but as an adult I don't need somebody telling me "fuck" is a naughty word.
"Fuck" isn't censored.
Which word is limiting your language?
Look, I don't know what this is, but I have no interest in whatever weird hostile form of communication you think you're having.
I'm not an expert in this, but the list I read included any communities with "fuck" in the name. But regardless, as stated, nobody else has the right or authority to deem what is acceptable language, that's a social convention we all get to weigh in on together.
But I have no interest in your weird goose-based hostility, so I'm just going to block you now, goodbye.
So wait, is this another hub for Lemmy's servers? How is this different then just accessing Lemmy through a third party app? Is this a totally different platform despite accessing the same servers? I'm a bit confused.
Not really - while it is part of the Fediverse, it is not Lemmy. In that sense it's closer to mastodon or pixelfed than a different client, with the key difference being that since the structure/interface are so similar, they're much more easily integrated with each other, so most likely have already interacted with a lost or comment from a Piefed user on a Lemmy community without even noticing :) Different Lemmy clients still connect you to the same servers and accounts, while Piefed's are completely separate - although several Lemmy servers are running their own instance of Piefed too, on a different domain. So, you "access the same servers" in the sense of posts, comments, votes, and potentially server hardware, but not for your account and server software
Gotcha, I think that makes sense. I don't know much about Piefed, but hey, if it works it works. I prefer Lemmy anyway because it is integrated like that.
I see, thank you!!