Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide

https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342

Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.

Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:

https://lemmy.world/post/16211417

And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:

https://lemmy.world/post/16235541

What is a tankie?

Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

  • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    It does EL-0-L when the managers do not answer to users who create the actual value. And surprise surprise you have widespread complaints about heavy handed censorship on tankie run instances on anything that hurts their feelings.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
      1·
      6 months ago

      When the users can create their own instances or even fork the entire project for free, the dynamic is different. Plus, calling discussion “value” is kinda goofy.

      Lemmy.world has censorship too, just see return2ozma’s recent ban for criticizing Biden and not posting pro-Biden content as well, literally admitted by the admin in an official post.

      • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
        01·
        6 months ago

        This is such a typical liberal answer. The value isn’t just created by the users’ post but by the collective network effect of all the users being in one place. That is not replicated when a new instance is created. Tankies know this which is why they’re acting like old Reddit mods with retaliatory style moderation.

          • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            I have read Marx, unlike you who’s just learned about Lenin through memes.

            The network effect is a commodity. That’s why X and Facebook fight for users and put them in walled gardens.

            Their valuations are based engagement. The most powerful and successful capitalist enterprises in history are all social media companies but okay discussion isn’t a commodity. How myopic can you be.