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

  • archomrade [he/him]English
    12·
    22 days ago

    You can simultaneously be in both chambers, that’s the nice thing about federation

    I think it’s healthy for people to be pushed into modulating their own behavior when in mixed company, I think it encourages a richer and more challenging experience. I wouldn’t waltz into my local catholic church and start complaining about their stance on gay marriage, and then get mad when they decide they don’t want me there anymore. If you want to participate in that community, you have to find a way to communicate with them without crossing that ideological threshold. And if you’re just too dissimilar to get along at all then by golly, maybe that community isn’t a great fit.

    • nahuse@sh.itjust.works
      21·
      22 days ago

      I think you and me would get along great if we met in person.

      But I hate your web personality, friend. At least so far.

      I’m choosing to just reply to this comment to you in this particular thread, because I’m a bit exhausted after talking to this linkerbaan fella in another thread. But I think you and I could really see eye to eye on a bunch of things, assuming I’m not mixing you up with somebody else.

      I like your moxie, if you’ll excuse any condescension you may detect (it’s not there, I promise).

      But this shit is precisely why I wanna have a good internet space for legit debate. I sincerely hope I can find a spot that offers an open forum for some good faith political debate that isn’t moderated based on butt-hurt-ed-ness.

      • archomrade [he/him]English
        11·
        21 days ago

        But this shit is precisely why I wanna have a good internet space for legit debate

        Then create a political debate comm? What’s stopping you from doing that? I’d personally block that community immediately, because online debate bros have probably the least tolerable kind of online behavior. Thinking you can walk into someone else’s community and start ‘political debate’ is probably why you can’t understand their moderation - if I was the mod I’d ban you too

        I’m familiar with linkerbann, I like seeing him around

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      22 days ago

      You can simultaneously be in both chambers, that’s the nice thing about federation

      Not if they ban you for asking the most basic of questions about moderation, or for having a different opinion.

      Banning people for having different opinions is bad.

      • archomrade [he/him]English
        11·
        22 days ago

        In my experience, “just asking questions” is never just asking questions, but I suppose that’s me presuming guilt

        I’ve asked plenty of questions there and have never had a run in with their mods. I have to assume the question was insulting or disingenuous, or both.

        But hey you can always make an account elsewhere and try again under better circumstances