I just realised, I can’t post anything on lemmy.ml

So, I checked https://lemmy.ml/modlog, there’s a new moderator.

All posts and comments talking about China, Jinping, Russia, and Putin have been deleted and users banned

    • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      1 year ago

      “Cake day: July 27th, 2023”

      I never had a reddit account but joined lemmy when I heard the commotion and liked what I saw. Although I’ve never had a reddit account, I have lurked there, and you and many others here remind me of the typical reddit users who basically think the left begins and ends with the US democratic party and anything outside of that is “fringe”.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
        45·
        1 year ago

        As you can see on my profile, you shouldn’t put too much faith in the cake day date.

        But they’re not wrong. The Fediverse, including Mastodon, gains popularity every time a group gets kicked off a platform. Whether that’s nazis or communists, they’ll all look for alternative homes, and Lemmy is one easy way to achieve that for Reddit refugees.

        • thoro@lemmy.worldEnglish
          102·
          1 year ago

          Except I can look at your profile and see your first comments were four months ago no matter what you did on your profile in that specific instance to set your cake day.

          My lemmy.ml account is meanwhile 3 years old without shenanigans.

          It’s not becoming. If anything, Lemmy became more milquetoast, Reddit liberal with the boom in .world accounts from the Reddit migration.

          Not dissimilar to what happened with Reddit after the Digg migration where more “centrists” popped up and /r/conservative eventually grew, though Reddit was never leftist, just liberal with some right libertarian.

        • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          1 year ago

          Correlation is not necessarily causation. A platform getting popular means people holding more mainstream opinions getting into the space, a lot of whom get offended when confronted with the unfamiliar. Now, when it comes to nazis, fuck them, they can get the fuck out with their hateful ideology, but I don’t see why people are so strongly opposed to communists other than buying into propaganda vilifying them.

          • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
            34·
            1 year ago

            I think the real communists themselves are rather silly optimists who go “real communism has never been tried”, they’re not harmful per se united their naivety is being exploited.

            The problem is that those communists aren’t the ones that get deplatformed. The communists you’ll find on fringe platforms are defending the CCP and other authoritarian regimes purely because those are known for their communism. Criticise some very obvious crimes against humanity, like the Uyghur genocide the entire world is ignoring, and you’ll get accusations of “orientalism”. There are a lot of those over here on Lemmy, when more than there are nazis because the Fediverse has learned to defederate from servers tolerating nazis (often through experience running a Mastodon server).

        • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          1 year ago

          Not sure how I reminded you of that because I don’t think leftist thought is the norm at all. I welcome opposing thought, I just don’t care for mindless spam of “tankies”, which has been so broadly applied as to become a meaningless label. These reddit types swarm in and demand instances defederate in order to cultivate their preferred echo chamber.

    • English Mobster@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      Lemmy was always on the fringe. The founders are literal hardcore unironic “China did nothing wrong” communist tankies.