Server owners using lemmy as a platform need to realise that this shit is self-harm and they should work towards eliminating it in the culture of their communities. Attacks on the developers of Lemmy are ultimately harmful to the growth of your own server if you use Lemmy as a platform, they have the added danger of potential to completely demoralise the devs into giving up, which would completely end your platform entirely because this project is never going to be picked up and continued by liberals or conservatives as it is ideologically at odds with them.

If you want a decentralised reddit platform you need to deal with the fact it's communists developing it and get over it. Communists are the only people that would develop it this way. If you want liberal or conservative platform design, that exists, it's called Reddit.

Server owners should be playing down or eliminating this behaviour in their communities if they want to see the platform (and by extension their own community) succeed.

The same 5 fuckwitted firebrands posting again and again with no hint of irony about how they're being censored by evil communists.

While the evil communists allow them to use their platform and take refuge from corporate media.

Absolute loser energy

Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation.

JFC I don’t want growth to be the point of Lemmy. Reddit didn’t become cancer jut because of a few bad mods or admins or users, it became cancer because the entire model of “everyone on the internet is all on the same 5 sites/apps” is cancer. It naturally produces a shitty environment where no one sees the other users as people but rather faceless text and so everyone is inherently suspicious and sees everyone as bots and trolls. I like Lemmy because it reminds me of the old internet where forums were places for group chat, not throwing the most high-engagement bait into the void.

I go on Hexbear, I see the regulars, I have a little understanding of what’s going on with them, so interacting with them feels like it’s actual interaction and not “which hivemind based on what subreddit I’m in at the moment am I dealing with?” Like let Reddit die, but have a million niches bloom forth in its death rather than “well if we just tweak a few things and make it feel decentralized that’ll be good” while trying to keep the rotten core intact.

Meanwhile I switched from .world to .ml earlier this year and I’m having a way better time here and it’s helped me learn so much.

"I dont like that this website is built and run by tankies"

"Leave? No, why would I do that?"

So commendable of them to compile a list of our based posts.

(Except for Nutomic's borderline transphobic comments)

When I meet people online who have disagreeable political opinions compared to mine, I'll try discussing with them in good faith for a bit. If they're an outright vocal fascist or bigot I simply tell them to suck my ass and die, then I go about my day. I would never in a million years make a huge screed of a thread full of complaints. Why do libs do this to themselves

Anticommunists who are otherwise normal would just assume the entire project is biased towards communism because of the commie devs and just find another social media site to use. It takes a real pathetic crank to simultaneously cry about real and alleged bias in Lemmy while continuing to use Lemmy.

General Tankie user behaviour

I love how the megathread for the Dessalines DPRK meme not only lacks any kind of statement of the DPRK being this great place to live or the best country on planet earth as the liberal strawman claims (I wonder if being the most sanctioned place on planet earth has something to do with it), but in that very picture has some guy espousing true European values by calling Russians "orcs" ("Asiatic hordes" in Old English)

"2025-22-08" this is your mind on liberalism

Biden is worse than Trump

If someone being allowed to say this is "extremism" to an intolerable degree to you, that means you will join us in our struggle to destroy the US, right?

Or is that the kind of thing that you're only meant to be outraged about when it happens in a leftist online space and you can tolerate it when it's actual fascists, the literal government and a vast amount of the population saying that?

Shit man the FBI oughtta hire this guy.

Liberals yet again being a bunch of babies incapable of not gobbling the empire's propaganda as irrevocable truth, therefore all leftists are doodoo wrong

Here's a fun game. Try clicking on one of the links and see if it says anything like what they're saying it says, or if they're extrapolating wildly.

wow if the original guy spent the time doing research on topics instead of complaining he would become a "tankie" too. unless he's a fed, which is likely. I just don't get it. When people say that they believe something that is complete opposite to my beliefs I look into it, not just say they are wrong because the CIA says so. For example if I believed tank man was run over and someone showed me the full video I'd be like yeah that's pretty suspicious that AP and all news outlets show you an edited video. I wonder what else they are lying about. Or maybe my brain is just wired differently?

I bet you OP doesn't drink water.

This is adorable.

Also damn, so much for the free speech liberals