And for the record, there was nothing even remotely racist in my comment. Dessalines just can't accept being wrong. 🤷🏻‍♀️
UPDATE : I am (almost) sad to report the ban only extends to [email protected] !
Also, I found the original comment, here it is (and if you see what's racist about it, please tell me, I'm open to being wrong about this, although I really doubt it) :
( Update 2 : cropped the second image properly )
Being a ml honestly takes so much mental gymnastics...from skipping both marx and lenins works entirely, touting stalin as a legitimate theorist, to simping for nationalist movements, doing racial pseudo science plus the intellectual leg work for large imperialist nations...it seems like a lot of work to me....and all to come across as a whiney sort of racist spoiled psuedo intellecual brat to the actual working class. Dont get me started on maoists who legitimately think that white people cant be proletarian. These two types of leftist specifically will do anything but try to understand what communism is.
They're not leftist though
And the post you got banned for isn't racist at all, unlike what the person who replied to you insinuated.
Dessalines seems to think the Winnie the Pooh likening is because Pooh is yellow and not because he is fat and round. Which, in a way, makes him the racist one.
The "Asian yellow skin" thing never made any sense to me. I've seen a ton of Asians, none of them were yellow, not even close. Xi Jinping has the same complexion as a white guy with a tan.
I think it was substantially influenced by the traditional four humours. Carl Linnaeus' work was not the first to call East Asians "yellow", but it was very widely spread and influential. He categorised humans into four races and associated each with one of the humours, then describing that race as having the characteristics associated with the humour (hence the equally-odd "red" description for Native Americans)
Lemmy: "China gov bad."
Lemmygrad: Source!? Banned for racism.
Lemmygrad: "USA gov bad."
Lemmy: Nods vigorously. Rambles in agreement.
What's funny is often the "USA government bad" isn't enough, and they have to pile on top until it's ridiculous.
Like, guys, we started this conversation with gulags. The Trail of Tears really isn't part of this conversation.
Two governments can’t be bad at the same time. That’s just science.
Mentioning both Taiwan and Tiananmen in one post?
Straight to jail.
Genocide of Tibetans
https://www.icj.org/new-report-the-question-of-tibet-and-the-rule-of-law/
Genocide of Uyghurs
Oppression of Taiwan
Clearly this is all Western propaganda. Solely because it disagrees with Chinese propaganda /s
stayed until the last hour on lemm.ee
congrats on your ban!
No surprise. Dessalines is the reason I switched from lemmy to piefed once my instance anounced it's going to shut down...
Is piefed centered on communities instead of people, like Lemmy ? The reason I only use reddit-like social media is because I've never cared to follow individuals, but I do care about communities and shared interests.
Yes, it is. You can be confused when checking it out because it not only allows you to navigate communities individually like on Lemmy but also bundle of communities for a single feed by topic or custom feeds created by others (likw how people can bundle a list of profiles for its own custom feed on Bluesky, but instead you do it with communities on PieFed)
Communities (Lemmy) = Communities (PieFed)
Topics (PieFed) = by so far what I understood its created by the instance usually and by default when self-hosting your own it will have some topics already organized with feed from communities related to the topic title
Feed (PieFed) = user & instance custom built feed of communities (Lemmy or PieFed) bundled together into a single feed and easily shareable with others
You can check the PieFed instance list here , some Lemmy instances are alreqdy starting to host a PieFed instance on the side too I just dont see lemmy.zip instance for PieFed there yet which is piefed.zip but you can check the others in the notes by the side of their address
Well, from my very limited experience point of view it is exactly 1:1 replacement of Lemmy.
It might not support 100% lemmy features, but generally it functions the same.
Probably gonna switch later today then đź‘€
You can even export your followed communities in lemmy and import them into piefed.
Can I find and subscribe to nifty communities from Piefed in my Lemmy account? And how do I do that?
Yes.
Don’t forget Nutomic.
I’m sure they are might be nice people IRL but they are authoritarian as hell and have terrible political opinion.
Isn't Nutomic also transphobic? Not sure that falls under "nice people IRL"
True. I kinda forgot about that.
Damn these devs do so much bad shit, it has like a flood the zone with shit effect where you kinda forget.
Your instance is already hosting a PieFed instance on the side you can confirm here , its piefed.blahaj.zone
i know it is, im just waiting for full voyager support.
Lemm.ee I'm guessing? How do you like piefed.social? None of the apps I use support piefed yet but I'm thinking about biting the bullet anyway
The beta version of voyager supports it. I’m using it right now. You can find the download links for the beta here.
Wow that’s awesome didn’t know Voyager was adding piefed, thank you so much for the info!
By the way Fedecan (nonprofit behind lemmy.ca and sh.itjust.works) is already hosting a PieFed instance you can confirm here , its piefed.ca
Lemm.ee indeed. So far it's been quite decent alternative to lemmy. I used voyager on mobile, switched to Interstellar, which is not as polished yet honestly, but it's still very much usable. For web interface I find the defaults much, MUCH better on piefed than on lemmy. I disliked lemmys default to be so bad I'd rather used something else like Alexandrite or Photon.
To be honest, since Lemm.ee anouncement my main goal was to ditch lemmy (thanks to dessalines) and stay with fediverse. The other consideration was mbin (like fedia.io), but after some reading it seems it's very limited by manpower and probably won't see much development in near future.
What was the comment?
"This person wouldn't believe the sky was blue unless you linked a study proving it. The Huyghur genocide. Not recognizing the independence of Taiwan. The entire way their "democracy" functions. The lasting damage the "one child policy" has done to their demographics (by their own reporting, not the wild exaggerations of the West) You don't need to pick between the sides you're being offered today, don't fall for this false choice fallacy. Freedom isn't choosing the correct master to serve. If you disagree, I invite you to go to Tiananmen square wearing a Winnie the Pooh T-shirt and see what happens."
Wait, how can YOU see it ? Can everyone access removed comments in the mod log ?
Anyway, good job finding it before I did ! I added it to the post.
Well, admins can see removed comments and posts. But yes, the modlog is public and the removed content is also shown there.
The way lumi works is that it is decentralized and for bands to work across instances... if you are the admin of an instance then you can see everything relating to that instance including mod actions that effect users that use your instance. Nothing is private.
Honestly that's a good thing. I just wish there was a button directly on removed comments to read them right there, though maybe that's the app's job to implement.
Depends on what you use. I can see my own deleted comments from quite a few posts that various instance admins decided to remove.
Ahh yeah they call the pooh comparison racist since pooh is yellow
That would be a very bad faith interpretation (so it's probably it), I said that because comparing Xi Jin Ping to Winnie the Pooh is a thing his Chinese opponents do to make fun of him, because he kinda does look like him.
I've been banned from grad and ml for telling them to "stop throating authoritarian cocks" and the reason was "homophobia."
Which is bigoted on their end to assume the gender of the person throating the cock. Also what is a metaphor?
There's a bit of a bad faith feedback loop where they started using it as a litmus test for users who are just trying to provoke instance bans, etc. At this point Rule 1 is pretty all encompassing to oblige those users. But it's very easy to catch strays. In some of those communities it's like those classroom lists of banned Gen Z words that get posted around.
How is this racism?
(This is a rhetorical question. We all know he is a nut job.)
It's not, but who will be able to tell once the comment is removed?
the logic of the mods is that winnie the pooh is a racist charicature because he's yellow
Exactly. Racism would be “China’s government is bad, therefore my Chinese neighbor deserves to be ejected from my country.” That sort of logic is not in short supply in my neck of the woods.
Criticizing a government is okay. Using that as justification to persecute unrelated people is not okay.
I just added it to the post, had no idea I could still find it in the mod log !
I'm also wondering
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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