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

  • scorpious@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    So is it … the “whole thing”? I.e., Lemmy was invented / created / etc. by a bunch of authoritarian weirdos?

    I’m guessing that the question itself reveals that I don’t even understand what Lemmy is, but hey. Any help appreciated.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Lemmy was invented / created / etc. by a bunch of authoritarian weirdos?

      Lemmy was created explicitly to get away from the Reddit brand of authoritarian weirdos. Then it was made to be fungible and mutable and interconnectable in order to prevent any single mod or admin from exerting Reddit-like control over the communities at-large.

      I don’t even understand what Lemmy is

      It’s a place to post. You don’t have to get much deeper than that. So much of this drama is one group of people angry at another group of people for posting wrong.

      Which is very classic “old Reddit” before the mods decided dissent was bad for monetization.

      • u/unhappy_grapefruit_2@lemmy.world
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        6 months ago

        It’s funny Lemmy was created as a way to get away from “Reddit brand authotarian weirdos” yet Lemmy’s creator is a “Reddit brand authotarian weirdo” and so is most of the main moderation team on ml and elsewhere you’ll think that with there combined experience on Reddit that they’lld learnt by now that censorship is bad. But then again what am I saying with my experience with tankies and socialists I’ve learnt a lot of them aren’t that bright

        It’s funny and ironic that the creator of this platform has become the very thing he apparently despises although I’m not surprised to be brutally honest commies do love their censorship

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          Except the Lemmy design isn’t authoritarian and it isn’t being ruthlessly monetized.

          Also, you don’t seem to understand the difference between being censored publicly and being uninvited privately.