I am a refuge from reddit, as I understand it, incompletely, lemmy is it’s own thing, piefed is a new one, with some differences in moderation and moderator tools. Lemmy has a lot of tankie influence is a big factor, communists, they are kind of dicks, to put it lightly. I think there is a third one too, they can all talk to each other on here.
Tankies give communists a bad name. I’m a communist and I made a communist piefed instance to get away from the tankies
Many of the people on ml and hexbear are cool, I had good conversations. But the leadership as such is the problem. You are right, there is nothing wrong with communists, these guys are tools of fascists. You better believe it. And china is not communist.
My first account on my first day or so I said something on one of their threads, thinking they were just super politically correct leftists, and they jumped all over me. Followed me around for months, the entire time I was on that instance really, some made non tankie instance accounts just to troll me. Pathetic really, but I got sick of it, I can give better than they can but I don’t want to get in pissing matches with trolls all the time.
They’ve actually never followed me out of their echo chambers I think because the light is bright and it hurts their eyes.
You see, I didn’t know they were communists, so didn’t see why they would be offended by my comment, so defended it, like 50 replies if not more to hundreds of comments from multiple users jumping on my shit, until one of the cool ones explained to me they were communists mostly living outside the US, so I started ignoring them. But one of their enforcer types demanded I apologize and I told him to eat a dick or something, so that didn’t help.
They’re not communists, they’re Stalinists. Communism is a stateless, moneyless, classless society. They want the people’s authoritarian regime to step on their necks with the people’s boot. Communism has been successfully practiced for 60,000 years, but every tankie state either collapses or goes capitalist.
As I called them when they insulted me, the long palsied arm of russian intelligence.
I’ve banned plenty of authoritarians from MULTIVERSE for spouting propaganda on off-instance communities. Our users don’t have to see that kind of stuff.
I was against any sort of censorship of other groups, until I got a taste of those guys, not just .ml, the worst are hexbear in my experience. The thing is a lot of their users are actually cool, but there is like a hierarchy, it’s not a collective so much as a top down operation, with enforcers or sorts. Their users need permission to accept a new theory on something. But you can have some good conversations, until the enforcers notice you again. You almost have to cut these guys off, there’s a danger doing that to too many groups over disagreements and making echo chambers, but as others pointed out, not defederating has led new users to be chased off the site after being abused by those dickheads.
