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PSA: Lemmy.ml is not Lemmy (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by concrete_baby@sh.itjust.works to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Too many people are confusing the two. Whenever lemmy.ml or its devs do something stupid, people go "Lemmy is getting worse and worse," or "I'm leaving Lemmy," or worse, "I'm leaving for Beehaw."

If you're using Beehaw, then you're using Lemmy. Lemmy is the software these instances run on. If you don't like lemmy.ml, join another instances that have rules that match your philosophy. Some instance hosts authoritarian or fascist shit? Turn to another Lemmy instance. Lemmy.ml is not even the biggest instance. People who just joined and are unfamiliar with the platform will just think the entire Lemmyverse is run by autocratic admins if we don't get our terminology right.

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[-] ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Saying you'd denounce a genocide you deny is happening isn't accomplishing what you think it is.

People don't equate "tankies" with "fascists" because you advocate some sort of marxist-inspired system of governance... it's because denying the suffering of others when it's politically convenient is absolutely the opening strategy of the fascist playbook.

Also, "Disown China"??? Nothing wrong with liking other countries but the way you guys talk about them is off putting and doesn't come across as informed or even remotely unbiased.

[-] Drewfro66@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Being "unbiased" is not a virtue. I am a Marxist. I judge people, governments, and ideas based off of a Marxist framework. That is my bias.

I give China the benefit of the doubt because they are, at least, claiming to be a Marxist state. This on its own puts them above any non-Marxist state.

[-] TolerableOrgasm@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Why? I am a socialist democrat and don't would never support North Korea just because they claim to be a democracy. China is an authoritarian state that does nothing to support socialist ideals.

[-] Soupbreaker@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I give China the benefit of the doubt because they are, at least, claiming to be a Marxist state. This on its own puts them above any non-Marxist state.

This is a spectacularly stupid assertion. Like, we're talking trumpian levels of idiocy here. Y'all tankies really want to make horseshoe theory a thing.

[-] ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Neither is being biased a sin. It's when your bias allows you to ignore facts that people stop taking you seriously.

[-] kurosawaa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The communist party has engaged in a huge crackdown on labor unions and workers rights in the last 10 years. Words are just words.

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