Comment on Lemmy's gaining popularity, so I thought new people should see this.

• Shiggles@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They… don’t though? Unless you’re pretending saying “voting for [not the democratic candidate] is a vote for Trump” is now apparently right wing and not just a basic understanding of how first past the post works.

  Like, your definition is both wrong in terms of what right wing means, and not even descriptive of either. They’re just not tankie shitholes so I guess that makes them look bad to you?

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  • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So accusing left wingers of being right wing is okay as far as you’re concerned if it’s about an election

    Pointing out that from a left wing perspective, Biden and the Democrats are doing bad things and their supporters are right wing: wrong, not descriptive, belongs in a tankie shit hole.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s… not an accurate characterization.

  I would have voted for Sanders in a heartbeat. And a lot of other (Americans) on my instance would too. The disdain is more targeted and nuanced than that. A whole lot of us on sh.it just.works have a reasonably solid understanding of the difference between communism and authoritarian communism, and are also often geopolitical nerds to one degree or another. This often leads to us doing our best to combat what we see as bullshit disinformation and misrepresentation when and where we see it.

  The vitriol we have towards tankies is specifically a result of:

  • our dislike of the glorification of historical authoritarian leaders (Stalin; Mao)
  • the intentional blurring of the line between communism (which, bluntly, many of us don’t actually have a problem with) and authoritarian communism
  • the jingoistic support of modern authoritarian states that either call them selves “communist” despite not really being anything of the sort (China), or who have a historical lineage that runs through an (again, authoritarian) communist state (Russia)

  When looked at that way, it’s a lot closer to modern Iron Front ideology (anti-monarchy; anti-fascist; anti-authoritarian communist).

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• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s… what? What?! WHAT!?

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  To anyone else reading, note the @lemmy.ml after their name. There are only so many times people of intelligence can hear the most batshit insane things on Lemmy without either willfully losing IQ points or else blocking the lemmy.ml instance.

  Unfortunately, that does next to nothing, bc you’ll still see every single batshit insane comment like the above. Every. Single. One. And while it might be a bug, you can sometimes get replies from them too (while other times blissfully not).

  Maybe I’ll make an account on Lemmy.cafe, which is the only instance I’ve ever heard of that has actually defederated from lemmy.ml. Though I’m holding out more hope for Sublinks, Piefed, and Mbin too to help address such issues.

  Stay safe folks - election season is coming and there are some who want to fuck you up if at all possible (not necessarily the above comment, just in general), don’t let it happen!

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  • Diva@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    If you’re planning on leaving I won’t miss you passive aggressively using only neutral pronouns for me or calling me insane.

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  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So… blocking an instance as a user just hides the instances communities, if I’m remembering the implementation details right. It doesn’t block interaction with the instances users. Stupidly misleading.

    You’ll still need to block the users one by one.

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sadly, I had quite the list going, but upon blocking the instance, decided to clean up all the individual ones from that instance. Oops. Surely a “block” would imply some sort of… I dunno, “blocking” action, one might expect?

      Also, at least on 0.19.3, I would not receive notifications from people on those instances. But now on 0.19.5, I do. So… there’s that fun little tidbit of knowledge: what little blocking there used to be, has become less so over time.

      Oh well, at least this way I get to read the most batshit insane replies to things and laugh at them. Once someone is aware, it’s not really shocking, compared to a new user who would have no clue - e.g. they could be conversing with an actual PhD scientist on mander.xyz one moment and then somehow jump all the way to “no awkshually you should drink bleach, and follow up by drinking sunshine, bc (this one time at band camp?) I heard that kills the Rona”. Which sounds enormously exaggerated I know, but just remember: there are people out there eating raw meat and drinking unpasteurized milk without a care in the world, even in the face of the avian flu situation that seems to have made its way into just about every animal on earth including extremely remote polar bears and such.

      Disinformation, unlike misinformation that is more often simply a mistake, is often designed to be outright deadly, to the unprepared (though less for the sake of the actual deaths, and more for how they would then catapult the issue into the media to receive feed-forward attention).

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