Read Combat Liberalism. To hear reactionary comments and to stand by without challenging them is a type of Liberalism that must be abolished

Can’t wait till EUV comes out, they say it’s due for a 2025 release

No. I think it’s fine, but not a real alternative to Capitalism. It seems like the sort of thing developed by an anticapitalist who accepts the Capitalist framing of history (“Capitalism is just when you trade things or have money”).

I would classify this sort of thing as Ultra-Leftist - a movement seeking to skip the necessary steps in the development of Capitalism into Socialism and Socialism into Communism by just “doing Communism” at the local community level and saying “Well if everyone just did it, we’d be living in a Communist Utopia!”

There is no skipping the steps. The abolition of work is the final step, not the first.

I think it’s because most of those personal stories were attention-grabbing fakes and there’s fewer incentives to do that on Lemmy

Amber Volcel Police Whataboutism

Political affiliation is not a protected class, nor should it be.

One additional suggestion I might make is to allow you to report the post to your own instance admins but not the host admins. This would be useful for when you want a post to be hidden or an instance defederated and you don’t want to also send your identity to the instance you’re reporting.

This might be used for:

Reporting spam coming from an instance that is unlikely to delete it.

Reporting CSAM on an instance that supports it.

Reporting hate speech on instances that believe hate speech is covered by free speech.

Etc.

There’s a word for this, the promotion of leaders based on merit instead of popularity - Technocracy. And it’s not a distinct ideology but a syncretic one that has been adopted by many groups with differing politics. The most prominent example would be the Technocratic faction of the People’s Republic of China, which was opposed to the Maoists back in the 50s and 60s; they argued for society to be led by experts instead of Democratically with a strong emphasis on Peasant participation (the standpoint of the Maoists). China today follows a moderate path taking from both factions.

In the West, however, Technocracy is mostly associated with Liberals; however, I would argue that the modern Liberal view of Technocracy is fundamentally flawed, since it relies on Capitalism distributing wealth meritocratically (which Socialists understand is not the case).

Lmao amazing

Uncritical support for the Lemmy development team.

Yes, it is, but I’m not a Libertarian - some censorship is good. Fascists, trolls, and child pornographers deserve to be censored.

I think their alignment was probably changed because it was counterintuitive that a Chaotic Evil outsider was from Acheron, a Lawful Evil plane.

You can select multiple languages in the box. The “Undetermined” option is for all posts without a language set. Most people do not set a language on their posts. So unselecting it will hide most posts from you.

This might be desirable if you, say, only speak French and don’t want your feed clogged up with unmarked English-language posts. But it also means that if someone made a post in French but forgot to tag it, you won’t see that post either.

If you’re, say, bilingual English/Spanish, you would probably want Undetermined, English, and Spanish selected in the box.

I think this, especially the second issue, is something the Fediverse (Lemmy in particular) will have to work through at some point.

If Reddit bans a subreddit on a controversial subject, it’s banned, it’s gone. But if a Lemmy instance defederates with another instance for hosting controversial content, you just find another instance that doesn’t.

I think the real issue is with federation in general and the creation of bubbles: there is a certain subset of users who just want full federation and full visibility, including sites that host lolicon, fascism, and other problematic content. Even if they aren’t, say, fascists themselves, but just free-speech absolutists. The issue is that any instance that doesn’t defederate with, say, Fascist instances, is tainted, either by association (“this instance refused to defederate from fascist instances, so we’re defederating from them too”) or because problem users are attracted to it (“people in our comment sections from this instance have been defending fascism, so we’re defederating to keep them out”).

And there really isn’t a good solution to the issue, aside from hosting your own tiny client-only server.

The Holocaust happened. The Armenian Genocide happened. Manifest Destiny happened.

The Ughyr detention centers, whatever you think of them, do not constitute a genocide. The Ukrainian Famine was a tragic loss of life, and perhaps the Bolsheviks could have done more to prevent it, but it was not an attempted extermination of the Ukrainian people. And don’t even get me started on Rwanda.

And Liberals routinely deny genocide in Palestine and Kashmir because it is politically expedient.

A blanket reproachment of “Genocide Denial” ignores the fact that sometimes, a genocide is claimed where one does not exist. I’m sure you accept that “White Genocide”, especially wrt South Africa, is a conspiracy theory with no legitimacy. Why do you not give the same benefit of the doubt to China, or the USSR?

Most of the posters are Americans, but more “PSL” American Leftists than “DSA” American Leftists.

Also I see the name lemmygrad thrown around, what’s the story with them?

Lemmygrad.ml is an instance for Marxist-Leninists and other Socialists who are broadly pro-AES (Actually Existing Socialism, i.e. the USSR, PRC, Cuba, Vietnam, East Germany, etc.) and anti-West. Criticism of AES is fine; but the assumption is that you’re there because you think AES is better than Actually Existing Capitalism. If you’ve ever heard of podcasts like TrueAnon or The Deprogram (or even Chapo Traphouse, to some extent, though they’re more “ML-sympathetic” than “Outright Marxist-Leninists”), it’ll give you a general idea of what sort of politics they’re about.

Lemmygrad is where Leftist Redditors go when their favorite subs (/r/ChapoTrapHouse, /r/MoreTankieChapo, /r/FULLCOMMUNISM, /r/GenZedong) get banned or quarantined.