Of course, simply blocking has its own issues. I personally would want to know when pro-dictatorship tankies are pushing their propaganda somewhere, so they can be called out. Blocking them would just mean there is one less person to refute them.
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0_o@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I believe you handled this situation well, kudos for keeping a level head and trying discussion rather than employing a knee-jerk reaction and blocking the entire instance (or defederating)! Especially considering some of the comments made (like those about your country) seem to have hit you in the feels.
Imho some hexbear users make really high quality posts / comments and engage in discussion or discourse… While some shit-post and meme everywhere and anywhere. I would be lying if I claimed that I never cracked a smile over a few of these :3
As always, users have the option of blocking any community they find distasteful. I maybe biased in this regard though as the major reason I joined .ee was the “open” approach to federation… If users are seeking more of a “curated” environment may I suggest one of the many, many instances which would better suit their preferences.
Silverseren@kbin.social 1 year ago
air_filter@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’m using Connect for Lemmy which has the option to block instances as well as communities. After seeing several posts I wasn’t interested in seeing from hexbear I decided to block the instance. I’m simply not interested in seeing pro-communist content, which us what all the posts I was seeing were related to. Or at least the ones I noticed from hexbear.
LeateWonceslace@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Side note: It’s my firm opinion that Tankies aren’t communists and you shouldn’t conflate the two. Communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Pro-USSR politics don’t endorse that.
barrbaric@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Before I begin, let me just say that this comment is in good faith.
All communists want to achieve a stateless, classless, moneyless society, but the key question is: how is a stateless, classless, moneyless society to be achieved? As history has shown, the instant a communist/socialist/anarchist/whathaveyou takes power, they are immediately put under brutal sanctions by the capitalist powers if not replaced in a coup or outright invaded. This would suggest that capitalist and communist societies cannot coexist, thus the achievement of a stateless, classless, moneyless society requires first the defeat or collapse of all the world’s capitalist powers. In the meantime until capitalism collapses, what are the communists to do if they seize power? The answer is what has happened historically: a transitional socialist state is formed, whereby the communist party is in charge of society as a proxy for the working class, replacing the bourgeoisie. When world socialism has been achieved (or possibly when the premier world power is socialist), then a transition to communism can begin.
There is much room for criticism of these socialist states, such as whether the party bureaucrats would ever actually follow through on the transition to communism when they have gained personal power, but the paths they have laid out are, if taken in good faith, at least plausible.
GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 year ago
So you think that you can have a classless society while existing within global capitalism?