https://crazypeople.online/post/13549061
original post.
Why am I cross-posting .ml content?
I cross-post from .ml to the nearest relevant non-.ml comm to reduce the influence of .ml comms and indirectly, the instance as a whole, to make it an easier decision for other instance admins to defederate because one key reason I identified that admins don't want to defederate is because .ml still has some very large comms and some niche comms.
Some highlights from the link:
"Don't worry guys, the Uyghur Genocide was REALLY just birth control! ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/30580167
"See! nobody died IN Tiananmen Square, just AROUND it, so it doesn't count!!" ~ Davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/30673342
.ml admin, Nutomics continued transphobia https://lemmy.world/post/29222558 The original transphobic Comment from Nutomic: https://lemmy.world/post/18236068
"NK is actually good and anything counter to that is Western propaganda!" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/31595035
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet ~davel, .ml admin https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
"If you don't support Russia then you just don't understand geopolitics" ~dessalines, .ml admin, dev https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
And so so much documentation on clear heavy handed censorship and bias also on the link. So much I can't even put them all here because this comment would be really long.
I believe the behavior of its admins (the main admins are Lemmy devs) does harm to the overall growth of the Lemmy-verse and maybe even the Thrediverse (since Lemmy kinda kicked off the Thrediverse) because of its association with the devs of Lemmy and their insistence to use .ml as their personal political platform to spread harmful propaganda
On the outside, bringing up Lemmy frequently leads to comments like "Lemmy? Isn't that the place with a bunch of tankies?" Or "Tried Lemmy, but found it full of pro Russia crap so I left". The best way forward from that I see is to either widely defederate from .ml like the rest of the Triad, or pressure them to put a fair and unbiased as possible admin team.
I appreciate your work
I think it creates needless duplicate data on every federated server, and fragments community discussion
Not all instances federate with .ml.
I know that, but we do, so this feels like unnecessary duplication
I personally don't need discussions on .ml and there seem to be more people who feel that way
Wait so if the Lemmy devs are transphobic... Should there not be a fork at this rate? Also, I've heard a lot of shit talked about .ml and seemingly for good reason but what's the story with all this? How did it get this bad?
Forks for ideological reasons will almost always fail if the issue isn't with the code.
The lemmy devs bad opinions have not made it into lemmy itself.
Should there not be a fork at this rate?
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.
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.
The good thing is, this is a federated service, and many instances are defederated from them if you want that. Also, they haven't added anything to the code that's bad, and it can be forked if they do.
Meanwhile, piefed, while it seems nice, has issues too. The language they're using, while it is easy, so allows for easier contribution, isn't as fast/powerful. They also hardcoded a block list for things like meme communities, and IIRC "NoMoreMuskSpam", and things like that. This can be removed by admins, but by default they're blocked. It's pretty stupid.
I feel like it presents leftists as being as smug and snobbish as reactionaries.
can haz instead with anarchy?
I think we need an "anything that is not capitalism" flag at this point.
Reminds me of the capitalism logo
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Feudalism moment.
This is the most accurate for our future, so
Tbh the design screams "edgy teenager that has never read theory", it would be quite tempting to ask the person what was the last theory they read
That's the perfect meme-based response. 😂 Yoink!
i find the push to read theory quite annoying tbf, it makes me feel like i need to pass a test to care about others. to be a leftist all you need is your own brain and empathy at the basis. yeah it's good to suppliment that with sources but it's really not that necessary, just be kind - everything else will come later
Sure but my point is less about the theory and more about the loud and obnoxious symbol on the back, if you're just a good person and you silently support liberation than I consider that a good thing.
I'm not sure if supporting liberation silently is effective.
You realize all the authors that wrote the books you’re referring to used this symbol right?
Oh, I love srsly wrong! I remember listening to this episode back when it came out and it's great
I'm about 15 minutes in and just heard Nicole's story. Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!
It’s literally just a shirt with a hammer and sickle, what the fuck do you mean it screams”never read theory”???
Oh, you're one of those people. Like the losers who gatekeep hobbies by demanding that women prove they're good enough at them.
Its not gatekeeping to say that there's more to revolutionary thought than symbolism, additionally ideology is not the same as a hobby.
Although I DID become a servant of the Omnissiah. Disgusted by the weaknesses of the flesh.
I feel dumb. I don't understand what praxis means in this context. Even after reading the definition... someone send help
from my understanding praxis in leftie circles just means– practice, as opposed to theory. so doing stuff aligned with leftist thinking instead of just thinking
To add to the other post, when someone says something "is praxis" it's shorthand for good praxis, something that helps people and/or convinces others to be helpful.
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