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I'm hearing Lemmy itself, the .ml instance and some others are ran by Tankies that censor criticism of russia and china. What are your thoughts on this? (self.lemmyworld)

submitted 2 years ago by Kasrean to c/lemmyworld

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[–] Mane25 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know the lemmygrad.ml instance claims to be Marxist but I don't think they're generally taken that seriously (and not to be confused with lemmy.ml) - is that what you're confusing? Apart from that, the federal nature of Lemmy means it doesn't really matter what the creator's political beliefs are.

[–] Zak 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think people are concerned because both lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml are operated by the Lemmy developers. At a minimum, that means I'd prefer to avoid communities based on lemmy.ml and favor servers with less spicy admins.

There is, however a popular idea that software tends to reflect the values of its authors. Mastodon seems to be "Twitter for nice people" or thereabouts. If Lemmy is "Reddit for militant communists", that's a problem for attracting an audience beyond militant communists because most people don't want to talk to them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

I don't think the creators of the software get to dictate the culture here. that would be like saying the developers of PHPBB or InvisionPowerBoard dictate what communities i run on thier projects (they dont).

Preview of the future is that it will be many federations with some bridges rather than one big federation, because of splits and issues like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Nah. I think the ".ml" means Marxist Leninist to them. At least that's what one of the tanky types I chatted to on lemmy.ml said.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m pretty sure the domain name might just be a consequence of it being free to register for a year at a time through freenom, and being not super known for spam like .tk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of the people I was taking too was complaining that people were surprised that it was tanky when it was "obvious" from the domain name that it was Marxist Leninist.