lemmy.ml is now requiring users to copy a sentence from Engel's "The Principles of Communism" to sign up and the libs are not happy.
lemmy.ml is now requiring users to copy a sentence from Engel's "The Principles of Communism" to sign up and the libs are not happy.
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I really don't understand why lemmy.ml's instance description no longer has "leftist" in it as it once had. That probably would have prevented a lot of the confusion. (and probably would have somewhat preserved the "culture" of the instance even after the reddit flood)
There are a lot of American liberals there who think that being centre-right is actually "leftist" so I think it's related to that. It isn't really a leftist instance anymore and hasn't been since the big reddit exodus, so that's probably why.
It's funny that hexbear and grad both talk about lemmy.ml as though its turned into reddit, meanwhile the .worlders all talk about it like it's Bolshevik Central, all because the devs maintain their stance on not being orientalist and most westerners cannot conceive of a critique of a non-western country that isn't couched in at least a little bit of racism.
I think the mods on lemmy.ml are fairly active at
combating casual racism and ableismeliminating freezepeach, so I could see why the .worlders hate it so much..worlders are just so god damn attached to their winnie teh pooh posting from reddit that they can't conceive of a society that disallows it without it being jorge orwal
I really don't understand why lemmy.ml's instance description no longer has "leftist" in it as it once had.
Some communists have taken to not calling themselves "left" anymore because they see it as synonymous with "liberal" and a barrier to reaching republican voters who automatically switch off the moment they get a whiff of anything left due to programming. The intent being to shift away from left/right altogether because in american politics it's synonymous with culture war when when communists say left we mean it in economic contexts.