Very early on there was a hard-coded slur censor list that was eventually changed to be settable by the instance admin, that’s about it.
Comment on Has anyone else noticed the strong pro CCP and anti-west vibes here?
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days agoHas the political stance of the devs ever impacted lemmy in any way? From what I can tell they do a pretty good job isolating their views to their instance. Honestly apart from a few comments I rarely see any tankies.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 3 days ago
TAG@lemmy.world 3 days ago
From what I understand, the devs are not injecting their political views into the Lemmy code. That does not mean they have not had a pro-tankie influence on the Lemmy community. As the original developers, they also set up the first major instance, lemmy.ml and they moderate that instance to have a tankie lean. Since it was the first instance, many people created their first account for it and it was the de facto standard place to start communities. As far as I know, it is still one of the most active instances.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Judging by active users, lemmy.world is the default, .ml isn’t even top 3. I’m getting pretty tired of people referring to Lemmy as a single platform while it’s entire purpose is to have a decentralized network where federation is always optional.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Lemmy.ml is tankie breeding grounds.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I’ve yet to see this impact the rest of lemmy when a simple defederation is sufficient.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Yes. As per OP, tankies are everywhere in Lemmy. More so than other platforms, it’s hard to miss. OP isn’t wrong about that.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I keep reading about this, can you show me some examples of pro-CCP sentiment? Tbf I block political communities anyway but I’m curious what tankie behaviour people keep referring too.
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 3 days ago
just have a look at genzedong@lemmygrad.ml but put your tinfoil hat on before to prevent potential brain damage
SupraMario@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Cowbee as well
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I went to their instance but only found a single post?
AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Tbh there is little evidence. There is a lot of shitposting people socialists are pissed off being called “tankie” or communist as a slur. I mean this shit is old. McCarthy would love this “oh you’re a tankie!” shit.
The worst I’ve seen is a communist community discussing that Stalin needs to be rehabilitated for his role in building up the USSR despite his “mistakes” (The big oopsie of 3.3 million dead in the great purge). I mean that is just stupid.
The larger issue is the laser focus the liberal community has on tankies, it’s not the fascists that are currently rising or already ruling, noooo it’s the “authoritarian tankies” that are at the lowest of their power ever. Whoever has been putting money into this tankie meme is brilliant. Just amplify that shit and stoke that hatred. Fascism bad, but oh please don’t be too radical lol.
So basically lemmy failed as a platform precisely because the neoliberal have managed to already cut out the socialist heart of lemmy.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
Where are you getting 3.3 million killed in the purges? The number of sentencings to death was 799,455, and we know many were canceled as the purges went beyond what was expected.
kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
I’m sorry but not one part of your comment shows any problem with lemmy. We’re using federated social media specifically so any instance/community can exist is a vacuum, and that includes those you do not agree with.
There are plenty of comms not having anything to do with politics that thrive, politically loaded content does slip into my feed and discussion is rarely uncivilised - on par with early reddit days.
This is exactly my problem, you think lemmy is one platform. It is not. It’s interconnected but seperate bubbles of activity that are brought together by federation, which has always been optional.