Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide

And yet they never seem to want to move to china or russia.

Denying? That's outright praise.

This shit is so embarrassing

Go to lemmygrad.ml and post about Russia or China. You will read insane ramblings about projections. Somehow the argument is always "look at this bad thing in the west, here is completely misinformed info about your country, look how good Russia/China, skip over genocides you are projecting it is happening in the West, to finish my argument Are You a Nazi?!".

Yougoslavia was created by soviets/russia. His beloved communists. I am super interested in what mind gymnastics he has to excuse that.

He could have gone with Africa or Middle East, much better example of collosal fuck ups of Ze Bad West. But that would require knowledge of history longer than 50 years.

Also crying about Poland. As a guy living in Poland, hearing stories of people that fought in WWII and people that lived in communist Poland, I am so interested in how these first hand accounts are US misinformation.

This is a factor in why I really want kbin/mbin to succeed. I also think it has the potential to be the better platform, but only time will tell.

Recently had someone argue Palestine isn't genocide because the Arab population in Israel is going up.

Any obsession with birth rates is a red flag for brain worms, as surely as talking about skull shape.

LOOK GUYZ I THINK HE MITHT HAVE A POIJT THERWA NOFFIN THERE

I’ve got no loyalty at all to communism or marxism. But I do have a loyalty to honesty, and I have to object. I don’t see a denial of the Massacre in the screenshotted comment. I see a characterization of it as some kind of US-led attack.

They aren’t saying anything like “that didn’t happen” or “people didn’t die”. Maybe they say it elsewhere, but not here.

Does anyone create a social media platform without being an absolute nutjob? Tom from Myspace, maybe?

Holy shit that's bad.

Hmm. That reads just like the most sane lemmygrad.ml user. Could that whole place be just actual bots?

/r/asktankies

Really? JFC

I use Kbin so I don't really care, but couldn't someone with at least a little bit of sanity just fork Lemmy? Or at the very least create more instances that aren't run by brainless delusional extremists...

People are advocating about blocking commingles and stuff when one doesn't like then, and here we are with people obsessed with 2 other people digging all their past comments from years ago and reposting in a community here anything that doesn't reaches this place because it is either blocked or defederated.

So if anyone has blocked them, not to miss the news smh

What's the state of Poland, though?

Ah they're a tankie

Lmao, poland mentioned

goat, whoever that person is, doesn't mind his own bussines, and likes to judge other people

And also, propaganda, please stop taking sides, stop listening to propaganda. All countries are bad, media is lying

Could anyone please add more context? I see some reddit user spewing some bullshit, but how do we know that's Dessalines? Genuine question...

Lemmy is a poisoned seed. Besides the questionable lead developers, you have the most popular lemmy instances enforcing rules arbitrarily while lying about it and removing entries from the modlog arbitrarily making them all but useless. At least it will be a good exercise in determining how well its federated nature allows it to survive.

Given how often it has happened, I'd say it's the fate of these sort of migrations from other major social networks to be spearhead by lying opportunists and people trying to hide their flaws through abuse of power. Unfortunately, social networks are far removed from the time when the people doing the spearheading where acting as good faith developers exploring what was possible - they'd probably be among the first to get gaslit and DDOSed.

Lmao, poland mentioned

You don't have to like the artist?

This comment is pretty old. Do we really want to demonize anything anyone has said? I've probably said some ideological embarrassing things in the past.

Unless he's still pushing these talking points, I really don't see the point