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

  • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
    516·
    7 months ago

    Another pedantic tankie argument. Just because something is not being exchanged doesn’t mean it can’t.

    Regardless originally I said the network effect had value, not that it was a commodity. And the VALUE cannot be replicated by building another instance. Therefore the users do not own THE VALUE that they produce.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
      156·
      7 months ago

      Lemmy is a decommodified Reddit. There’s no profit motive. The network does not have Value, as it is not being exchanged. It has a Use-Value, in that it is useful, but nothing is being taken from workers as nothing is exchanged.

      Please read Capital, Chapter 1 of Volume 1 makes this extremely cut and dry.

      • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
        513·
        7 months ago

        Let me ask you something. Is there anything preventing Lemmy devs from selling the code and going private like a gazillion FOSS projects have?

        • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
          154·
          7 months ago

          They could, but the code could also be forked and remain free. Does the fact that Capitalism could exist in the future mean it presently does?

      • SeattleRain@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        7 months ago

        So you think Communism = Non Profit. Please read Capital Vol 1-3 by Karl Marx and not screeds by Lenin.