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It's a nazi instance run by a cryptofash who wraps everything in an "anarchist" aesthetic
TBH a lot of the instance is less like this than db0 himself. I don't even think he himself is a cryptofash (except by accident) but he will, from what I've seen, protect them based on in-group loyalty which really sucks.
To me he lost all plausible deniability as anything but a fascist when he started making up lies about all of us for calling out his fascist buddy.
Yes, that was the specific incident I was thinking of as well.
However, the instance as a whole actually has a lot of good people and IMO it's a benefit to be federated with them. Part of the reason he's crashing out like this seems to be that the instance is warming up to Hexbear and he doesn't like that.
Agreed, big time. Lot of cool users, but the very non-cool users are getting extra-upset that things have been warming between the two instances.
Edit: Bingo. db0 sees libs and MLs as equally vile, and is concerned that MLs are seen more positively than libs, fearing that this is pushing anarchists away from dbzer0. The admins are split on this, though, as are the mods, with db0 taking an appeared minority position on the matter.
Well, TBH I got that idea from you originally lol.
Ahh shush... that's not important lol
If we could just have on their banner that clearly saying that "the Red Army soldiers should have surrendered to the Nazis, and the fact that they didn't means the ones who were executed in captivity for being Slavs (or Jews, etc.) weren't victims of a genocide," is considered by the admins to be acceptable Discourse that we would oppose merely on a sectarian basis, I feel like it would deflate most of the popular support for db0's shit takes.
They've made being a "tankie" in some cases synonymous with being correct, seemingly only opposing it to be contrarian and even despite the broad agreement from many ideologies that the above statement is the exclusive domain of a subset of fascists.
Bingo. Using anarchism as an excuse to support the most fascist and reactionary takes and actions against the soviets (or any communist group) is anti-anarchist and pro-fascist. Truth doesn't matter for these people, what matters is whatever narrative is a rhetorically effective club.
That's not to say that there isn't legitimate Marxist or anarchist critique against AES states, of course, my point is that it's clear that a small but extremely vocal portion of users seem to proceed from the goal of discrediting Marxism and use whatever is effective in doing so regardless of validity, rather than a pursuit for correct analysis we can apply to build a better understanding of the past to inform our current practice.
Many such cases
I moved from my initial .world account to .dbzer0 a long time ago just because I wanted to help spread us all out and it had the best community I could find focused on my views around piracy and software freedom. The admin seems a special kind of lunatic, but the community as a whole doesn't seem to lean in any particular direction.
My 2c.
Unfortunately, a cryptofash leadership is inevitably going to create a fascist userbase. I'm already banned from all the popular dbzero comms because your fascist admin doesn't like it when people speak the truth on your instance. Slowly but surely, all those who speak the truth (and thus upset fascists) will be weeded out and all you'll be left with are the fascists.
Totally reasonable approach imo, and even the ridiculous admins in db0 are probably less bad than some of the .world admins from my admittedly hazy memory, since they'd take the same stance on the issue mentioned in this thread (by nature of being reddit-brained) and also several bad stances that db0 admins probably would not take.
I would lightly contradict the other HB user here that there is a little bit of potential for popular opposition to pressure the admins to be less ridiculous, even if it's not nearly as effective online because admins are basically gods of their domain (which is not how real-life politics works, of course).