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I've seen several references to some sort of rift between the users of these instances today. What's happening?

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[–] AskewLord@piefed.social 13 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

there was a big post yesterday about 'rent is theft' that had 100s of comments, that was mostly .world vs .ml users.

the .ml users basically harassed and threatened the .world users who were talking about reasonable reforms on housing prices and the causes for housing price inflation. .ml users think if you talk about facts and reality you are part of the problem and that reality should be re-made such that private property no longer exists and every single person should leave in the same concrete housing blocks like they had in the USSR, or they should be shot.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, if they all want to move to Russia or North Korea or China, go right ahead, I am not stopping anyone from chasing their bliss. Perhaps I should note that they will end up as fodder for a warlord's lust for conquest, but at the end of the day that is not my call to make as to what to do with your lives.

But damnit I would like to have some tint amount of control about what to do with my own! Including the ability to block them, if I happen to want that. I almost left Lemmy over precisely this issue, preferring instead to simply read books offline than to have to wade through endless immature eternity of September crap. Fortunately, that's exactly when PieFed started coming up, offering an alternative besides Mbin, and which now offers a heck of a lot more features than either of them.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml -2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"you don't like it, leave"

you sound like pretty much every conservative I've interacted with.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Naa we're just tired of you tankies spewing authoritarian propaganda... you're just maga's that wear hammer and sickle patches.

[–] Diva@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I'm an anarchist, these days 'tankie' is just an epithet used by campist liberals towards 'disloyal' communists and anarchists at home.

[–] SupraMario@lemmy.world 1 points 1 minute ago

No...no it's not. You tankies are called that because you eat propaganda from authoritarian regimes in the name of communism. You're just maga with a hammer and sickle logo