I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A
lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. It’s
been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s
say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, t...
Everything I hate is now tankie. We must stop this by getting them to censor what we think is tankie
This is so obviously just going the same way as the British labour parties own purge of the tankies. Like they started with Corbyn and stuff and now they're kicking people out for liking a single tweet by Jon Stewart.
ngl though, like the whole thing of lemmy.ml banning people on a hairtrigger is dumb af, like whats the point of a forward facing communist instance if non-communists arent able to interact with it to be pushed towards becoming socialists
A lot of the comments in the modlog look pretty tame, though. If there's clear racism, sure, but it's mostly just random normal comments you'd hear anywhere in there. Banning those people won't help them learn. It's repeatedly getting exposed to differing opinions in Lemmy that got me here in this instance in the first place.