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This is worse than sycophants making excuses for Huffman. Dessalines compiled this list to make an argument, how are you sweet talking this reality? This isn't some exercise in political science, this is a dude making the point that the Uyghur genocide is not happening. There is no discussion with such an entity. There are many subtleties to be discussed about any of these topics, but once you're in that level of conspiracy, there's no subtlety, this has nothing to do with critical thinking or questioning authority. This is blatant arrogant vile brainwashed shit, and nothing else. The result you will find in Lemmygrad.ml. Study this instance closely and strive to not become that. Free speech does NOT mean hatespeech should be tolerated. By being neutral you are supporting the wrong side. Inaction is action. Let me put it this way: when two Nazis sit down on a table with eight other people and these people say nothing, there are ten Nazis sitting on that table.

What is the consequence of that and are there worthy alternatives?

Read for yourself what he writes on his website. It's pretty grim shit. https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people

Conspiracy? One of the devs has a website where he literally openly denies the Uyghur genocide, Tiananmen square massacre, "Mao did nothing wrong", "Ukrainians are Nazis", denies every single critique of USSR and China, and a whole lot of other vile shit. Read for yourself: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/socialism_faq.md#did-mao-kill-millions-of-people

This is the real test of the fediverse. Can software written by a piece of shit like that exist without being influenced by their garbage political views?

I think it's possible and I like Lemmy to thrive but it's important to keep an eye out for tankies and to not close your eyes to the reality of who started this.

While that is true, I anticipate that as a user you can choose to block all of that, just like I could have a reddit experience without r/conservative and without ads. We will always be able to find our niches, the size of which is determined by how many people share your values.

That being said, it's indeed up to us to make sure the largest communities don't end up on some weird fork that has ads.

Ahh! Thank you very much!

I think that's everyone. And nobody else cares.

What switches you on?

That's an interesting thought... haven't considered that!

If my instance were to go offline, do the posts/comments stay visible by the other instances?

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