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I have seen some absolutely idiotic "socialist" takes on Lemmy (usually just dumb ass takes based on false premises like "food is free in nature, why isn't it free now?") but yeah the amount of complaining about "tankies" is like 10x the amount of actual "tankie" content I see. Really just blocking lemmy.ml takes care of 99% of the issue if you really hate seeing it.
Any time .ml users get wind of a thread they can bootlick in, they tend to swarm it. Hell, here's one from a user in this very comment section just a few days ago, on a major comm:
And I mean, fuck, man, .ml's memes comm, which is still one of the larger comms on the Fediverse, hardly goes a day without boot-throating tankie shite.
The argument "food is free in nature and should therefore be free" isn't a good argument. There is however one to be made for "with the level of technological advancement we've achieved at present, food shouldn't be as inaccessible as it currently is"
Fascinating study. I'll keep this in my repertoire of anti-capitalist arguments
Yeah, but look, it would make shareholders sad! We can't do that, can we?
It would be impossible under capitalism, good thing there is another way
Right, but I have seen massive arguments on Lemmy over this topic. The argument you made is actually well thought out and makes sense, while the one I mentioned is stupid and doesn't withstand even the smallest amount of basic thought.
my only worry about is that if they are the main developers, what if they start abusing that position?
My main question is: what makes you think they aren't already doing that?
I havent seen any evidence or mentions of it
I have seen post after post on Meanwhile on Grad about Dessalines abusing his power, you probably aren't aware of it because by the time you see it all you end up seeing are users like Cowbee monologuing to the void.
https://ani.social/post/863176
.world and pie preemptively defed from .ml.
ffs, why cant there be anything nice in this world.. everything has to have some downside or looming problem. How can i even recommend lemmy to people if there is a problem of " yea, its main developers are crazy tankies, but maybe its going to be okay?"
Though by now i hope there are enough interested developers in lemmy in general that hopefully it can be branched if things get too bad.
Just recommend piefed to them.
well, except piefed also has some quite bad issues: https://sopuli.xyz/post/40286456 this post discusses them
I'm more inclined to believe in the piefed devs fixing their hardcoded shit over Dessalines suddenly... not being Dessalines.
Right, the one that requires opt in for .ml