thoro
@thoro@lemmy.ml
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Russia was wrong for invading Ukraine.
In fact, Russia is an expansionist state with rampant nationalism and homophobia and led by an obvious fascist. I support the political autonomy of Ukrainians.
Catch me in the modlogs.
Now, I believe all of that, but I can also believe that there are geopolitical forces making the situation more nuanced and complex, that the people of the Donbass also deserve political autonomy, and that Ukrainians are being used in a proxy battle between NATO and one of its chief rivals.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They administrate the .ml instance with that in mind, and they will often ban or strictly moderate low effort anti-China content like depicting Xi as Winnie the Pooh (they see this as racist because yellow bear) and spam posts about Tienanmen Square. I’ve seen people claim they are pro-Russia, but most of what I’ve seen would fall under anti-NATO opinions than pro-Russia. I have never gotten the impression that Putin is popular in .ml, hexbear, or lemmygrad.
But they really just stick to their instance and don’t push their politics on the software’s development.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
People on Lemmy don’t really need to be told about most of these. What’s your point? You and I both know this image was made for people outside Lemmy. In fact, it was updated to remove Lemmy
- Comment on 4 days ago:
The user has been on this platform since 2020, long before .world existed and .dbzer0 was a twinkle in dbzer0’s eye. Yes, the user chooses to stay on the instance that gets updated first and stays federated with all of .world, PieFed, and also the lifeboat chapo community that did and has continued to produce the funniest leftist content on the platform.
I’ve been in this comm for years. It’s the number one organizing spot for anti-lemmy developers to push their alternatives. There was a Java one before PieFed took off. And when you look under the surface, the reasons are pretty much always because anti-communism.
You see it’s actually people like y’all that scream “witch” at users, accuse them of interacting with bad faith, and spread FUD in this platform.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I understand, but most of us are here from the efforts of all those who built Lemmy and it was deliberately left off here as an alternative
- Comment on 5 days ago:
This comm is often full of comments pushing lemmy alternatives, with PieFed being the new frontrunner.
You’d think the post here would include Lemmy, which I believe is still the most active platform
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Are these features available on mobile apps? Because I mostly use Lemmy on Jerboa
- Comment on 5 days ago:
It’s honestly bonkers to have a community hosted on Lemmy this hostile to Lemmy as software and the developers.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
Lmao wow
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
I liked the part where they conflate anti Zionism with antisemitism, show one comment/“post” as proof, and don’t reference it so readers can view upvotes or context around said post.
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
Days in the fediverse comm without explicit anti-communism and red scare fearmongering: 0
- Comment on Chinese propaganda is rampant on the fediverse 1 week ago:
Piefed was created by the CIA, NSA, and Kissinger’s ghost.
You can tell in the name.
Fed.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 2 weeks ago:
Get your point but most 4K encodings I see are ~10-20GB.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
I’ve always been more of a lurker/commenter than a poster, but posters are what Lemmy needs if we want more users to come. People need to want to come to Lemmy for content.
In my experience, the best poster on the platform is the person making the comics on /c/unix_surrealism, in that sometimes I find myself wanting to check the comm to see if there is anything new.
And this will be disagreed with heavily, but the second best posters are the memers at Hexbear. I just think they make the funniest leftist memes (so political content, sorry people who are tired of politics), and they’re the only instance that actually has a site culture, with their own in-jokes and history/lore.
When Reddit was young, that was a big part of it: Posts that went viral among the community and became in-jokes/lore. Comment chains (as much as I grew to hate them). And original ideas for content (AMA, TIL, AITA, etc.). There was a kind of culture to the site (that’s mostly been diluted now).
That said. I like Lemmy perfectly fine at the size it is, even if it doesn’t fully replace Reddit. Though it’s concerning to see it declining.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
It’s not a “conversation”, it is evangelism.
A bit ironic from the piefed evangelist.
- Comment on we need more users 3 weeks ago:
Most people on Reddit avoid the larger subs like the plague though
This doesn’t really seem to make sense to me.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 3 months ago:
You’re correct. They aren’t right wing. They are communists.
I haven’t figured out if I’m fully anarchist, a “left libertarian” who can accept a restrained state, or if I’m coming around to being an ML, tbh.
And I’m not sure if I care. I just want capitalism dismantled and fascism/conservativism opposed. And I don’t want a police state.
But, and this is gonna be hypocritical of me, I feel like the sectarianism always seems to be coming from online anarchist and progressive spaces. Like no don’t join our mass movement against capitalism if you, IDK, don’t dislike China enough? Doesn’t make sense to me.
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 3 months ago:
What instances block .ml that I’d be upset to miss?
- Comment on The highlighted division and factions of Lemmy. 3 months ago:
Liberalism has an actual definition. Neoliberalism is a subset of liberalism. Either way, neither position is socialist and both are capitalist. That’s the distinction. That’s always been the distinction. Leftist politics is distinctly anti capitalist.
To leftists, liberalism, even progressive liberalism, can never address the material concerns for workers, inequal accumulation, and capitalism’s contradictions because it cannot attack the central tenet of its ideology: the private ownership of land and resources. And most of the social stuff was being advocated by leftist groups in the west for years before they became popular enough for the mainstream, liberal parties to embrace.
I’m an American. Conflating liberalism with leftism is a media game that has successfully ensured the Overton window does not shift left. It reveals the mass political ignorance here. Of the policies you’ve listed, only H4A is arguably socialist.
You can understand the two party system and make decisions to support certain candidates/policies in an election without identifying as a liberal.
- Comment on Once again, looking for PS2 game suggestions! 3 months ago:
Kinda surprised how long it took to scroll before seeing Ico and SOTC mentioned, tbh.
Crown jewels of PS2, imo. Pushed the medium forward artistically.
- Comment on Shortly After Xbox Game Pass Prices Spiked, the Page to Cancel Game Pass Subscriptions Was Overwhelmed 4 months ago:
Gamepass only ever made sense to people who had time to play or dabble in a sufficiently large amount of games per year and felt the need to play some new titles soon or immediately instead of waiting. Otherwise, eventually your total subscription costs would outpace the total cost to purchase what you played, especially if purchased on sale at a later date. And the value gets worse if you ever replayed a game (s).
I’ll never really understand the excitement about this service. It was always a Trojan horse.
- Comment on France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools 9 months ago:
What’s your point? Are you banning the entire Internet?
All this stuff is still accessible once the bell rings and before they get to school, just like it was when I was a kid. Kids were still going on YouTube/MySpace/ Facebook and more to share things. This argument doesn’t make sense.
You’re attributing the issue of algorithms to the medium itself.
- Comment on Kevin Rose officially relaunching Digg.com 11 months ago:
Yep. There’s a reason I moved over even before the v4/2011 fiasco