Wow, so you support authoritarian measures to destroy other cultures. OK tankie.

Or that grad user who got banned for posting .

This is great! Haven’t seen Hungary’s before, that’s a fun one.

The admin was receptive to this point but the policy stands for now.

Odo(at)lemmee

Equating Nazi symbolism with Soviet ones just feels like such a weird thing to do, there's a reason Nazi symbols are banned in several (if not a majority) of European countries, but is not the case at all when it comes to soviet symbols. I think it's specially disappointing because the image that was originally shared was a reference to the "spectre" line in the communist manifesto. The hammer and sickle symbol has a long history that supersedes the history of the Soviet Union as a state, even my "third-world country" in Latin America (I'm sure you can see in the logs where I'm posting from) has a history of using the symbol for liberatory causes.

sunaurus(at)lemmee

That's a very important point, thanks for the comment. For me, such symbolism immediately associates with people glorifying the soviet union, but I understand that there can be lots of people out there who don't associate it with Russia at all.

follow up:

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~~What is the source of this rumour? Can’t find anything online about stolen code from raddle in kbin. Both projects are open source so should be easy to prove.~~

Misleading. MinekPo1 found the discussion. The kbin dev had neglected to add attribution for some copied backend code. The postmill dev points it out with links, asks for attribution, gets an apology, is asked if the code can be used or needs to be rewritten, she explains how to fix the licensing and endorses use of the code with proper attribution.

The framing is overblown for maximum drama.

Update: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/937#issuecomment-1041941
Turns out Emma had to put a snarky comment, after two months of waiting, in a thread with a Free Software Foundation person offering financial assistance, to get this resolved.

“Ukraine bombing the Donbas region from 2014-2022 to eliminate the ethnicity that lived there, killing civilians and children, is totally not genocide. It’s the people who stepped in to stop them that are the real genociders.”

“They look like they can’t downbear content on other instances, but the hexbear ui actually has a superdownbear -10 function that they use to send anyone they target into the negatives. The admins of hexbear have a stickied post on all pages encouraging users to take trains to data centers of Lemmy instances with giant spoon-shaped electromagnets to erase SSDs of liberal instances.”