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

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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    28 days ago

    Dude, this is common fucking knowledge, and nobody cares.

    It’s one of those things where the very tankies you’re talking about made it trivial for anyone not wanting to interact with them, their instance, or anyone in specific can just block whatever. And then there’s the instances that defederate from .ml and/or grad, which is a decent amount of them.

    They may be assholes (though they tend not to be in interpersonal ways, only in their political views), but they’re assholes nobody has to interact with for very long.

    You’re beating a dead horse with this one

    • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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      27 days ago

      I have Lemmy.ml blocked and I still see them in other communities all the time. Defederation is the best solution for dealing with an instance that’s designed to spread propaganda.

      And no this isn’t a dead horse, there’s are other discussions ongoing about defederating Lemmy.ml

      • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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        27 days ago

        I have Lemmy.ml blocked and I still see them in other communities all the time.

        If that’s the case, then that may be a bug. I advise you to report that.

          • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            10 days ago

            What do you mean by “it’s standard”? As in that is the intended functionality? It shouldn’t be — the whole point of blocking instances is for the user to be able to, well, block an instance, ie content originating from it no longer shows up.

            • fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee
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              9 days ago

              Yeah, the software is set up so that even if you block an instance you still see comments from their accounts on other instances.