Who are Lemmy’s main devs controversial to?
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PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
It’s understandable to get offended at this, but really it could be a lot worse. Also probably we should separate the project from the developer, because with this logic, we shouldn’t even be using Lemmy, since the main devs are controversial to some people.
tabular@lemmy.world 2 months ago
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
AFAIK the devs are supporting communist ideologies, especially maoism and they like the USSR’s demolition of independence revolutions like the hungarian 1956 and the checzh 1968 uprising.
They also made a controversial statement about the Uyghur genocide too. I’m not sure about the specifics tho.
tabular@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Ah fuck.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
Those who aren't Tankies.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I keep seeing this term “Tankies” on Lemmy, but I’ve only ever seen it on Lemmy. I can’t tell if you mean people who wear tank-tops, or people who drive tanks. Neither one makes sense given the context of this, or other threads I’ve seen the term in.
Starting to think it’s a slur of some kind, but I don’t see who it would be against.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tankie is a term that stems from the UK Communist Party (fringe political party) mocking some of its more extreme members that defended the USSR sending tanks in to quell civilian protests in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. And later, to mock those who defended Mao’s crackdowns.
Since then, the term has evolved to mean any westerner who proclaims to be left but defends the imperialist actions of Russia/their human rights abuses, despite them not even being remotely left wing anymore. To a lesser degree it’s also applied to China.
In short: a westerner who rails about how horrible and imperialist the west is, but falls silent or defends it when Russia or China do the same or worse.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
It would've cost you less time to put that term into your address bar and let your favorite search engine take you to Wikipedia and other informative sources, than writing this comment and constantly wondering what that term means. It's absolutely not a term related to Lemmy, it's just that lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, hexbear and the Lemmy developers themselves are Tankies.
orclev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They run lemmygrad and are dedicated communists, as well as having a very opinionated “bad words” filter that’s hard coded into the lemmy server software and not configurable without building it yourself.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Exsqueeze me? Where might one see this hard coded bad words filter?
orclev@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s encoded as a regex which you can find here: github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/…/slurs.rs#L74
It’s honestly not a terrible list, but there’s at least one entry in there that falls victim to the scunthorpe problem, and it sucks that it’s not something administrators can easily customize.
tabular@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Is the hard coded bad words filter a conscious choice? I presume someone wrote a PR to fix that and it was rejected?
notgold@aussie.zone 2 months ago
some people
AmidFuror@fedia.io 2 months ago
sane people
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Almost everyone.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
Not everyone here uses Lemmy.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
…what? You’re on Lemmy. THIS is Lemmy. I don’t get what you mean. Or maybe you don’t get what you mean?
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
No. This is the Fediverse. I'm using mbin.
HKayn@dormi.zone 2 months ago
Go visit fedia.io and then tell them again that they’re on Lemmy.
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Maybe he means lemmy.ml and lemmygrad perhaps? But even if you are on a different instance, you are still using the main dev’s fruit of their labor.
DarkThoughts@fedia.io 2 months ago
No, I'm using a completely different type of software. The communities on the three Tankie instances I actively block when they pop up.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I know what Lemmy.ml is, but I don’t know what Lemmygrad is. It sounds like if Lemmy were a cold war era city in the soviet union.