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

  • GarfGirl [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    01·
    7 months ago

    I didnt say that lemmy.ml mods havent been overbearing with their moderation i said “i havent seen anyone even claiming its been used against them or pointing to their post being permanently removed from the modlogs unjustly”.

    if you want me to spell it out slowly i can:

    • lemmy.ml mods have abused admin powers at some points
    • it is possible that the lemmy.ml people could abuse this admin power
    • as far as im aware there is no evidence that anyone has misused this specific admin power
    • this specific admin power has been used to remove child porn and dox info
    • since this admin power has been used for good reasons and hasnt been used for bad reasons it shouldnt be removed as an admin power
    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
      1·
      7 months ago

      as far as im aware there is no evidence that anyone has misused this specific admin power

      In that case, then congrats for living in your own little delirium, apart from the many, many reports people have made reporting those specific abuses.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
          1·
          7 months ago

          Absolutely.
          I will make it a special point tomorrow to look up the many, many posts upon that matter made in the last couple days across the FV.

          One also wonders what people like you were doing in the meantime, but never fear-- please DO add on with any more requests for such information in the coming days. I will be happy to do the lookups and get back to you. ^^

          • GarfGirl [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            01·
            7 months ago

            just to clarify i want evidence of this specific admin function being misused, i and everyone else already knows that the lemmy.ml mods are trigger happy with their bans, but you’re claiming that they’re misusing the anti-CSAM feature to remove comments from the modlog that they actually removed for criticising china to cover their tracks which i havent seen anyone else accuse them of

            • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
              1·
              7 months ago

              you’re claiming that they’re misusing the anti-CSAM feature to remove comments from the modlog

              Right, that was one aspect of that, but at the end of the day?

              What ML has clearly done is to fuck with the integrity of the Lemmy-sphere across multiple, fundamental levels, and that’s what I and many others find completely unacceptable, and have of course stated as much.

              Seriously, how is it even possible that you’re browsing the FV and haven’t seen this shit…?

              Yes, yes-- I get the fact that you’re a ‘self-declared weirdo!’ “Big proponent for killing all cis men! Token Trotskyite!”

              You DO understand of course that civilisation is collapsing fast, much of it due to our bloody inactions, is it not…?