Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don't know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.
So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it's not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.
This is what my last reply would have been.
(Yes I'm being snarky, but that "I'm so mature" bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)
In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.
a stated goal of the lead developer was preventing 'tankies' from wanting to use the software by baking stuff in.
Null is still insisting that's not the case, Null can't read I guess.
I didn't know all communists were tankies, my bad.
'tankie' is routinely used as a pejorative for communists (and anarchists at this point) who aren't aligned with us imperial 'foreign policy'
I'm sure you feel that way.
Sir, I have literally no idea who you are. But I've seen various mentions of the fact that you're either an admin or a dev.
Do you genuinely believe this dismissive behavior is going to do you any favors? Because you're making this look worse.
Skavau acts this way, so I would say they do.
i would love to hear your opinion tbh
My opinion of what, specifically?
you seemed very sure of yourself, maybe you should just say what you think instead of being evasive and condescending
I don't think most people use tankie as a perjorative for communists broadly, and I don't think Rimu uses it that way either (which is what you were implying, right?)
But like I said, I'm unsurprised that you feel like they do.
i said:
you are now saying:
that's a different claim; my claim was that 'tankie' is used as a pejorative against anyone on the left who's not aligned with us imperial 'foreign policy'.
you say that you don't think it's used as a pejorative for communists broadly
the fact that there are communists who have views which are aligned with us 'foreign policy' is not something that is in dispute on my end; you're addressing a different claim.
we are here because i raised rimu's documented goal of excluding 'tankies' through platform design. what does that exclusion mean if not targeting anti-imperialists?