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It’s lemmygrad, we’re the spectre. I’d bet at least half of the other instances out there block us, there’s only like 300 dedicated users on this instance, and they still can’t stop complaining about lemmygrad/tankies

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its crazy to see all the complaining about tankies, but I hardly see any complaining about exploding heads. Some people supporting Russia over the US is a big deal, but actual fascists passing laws in the US is barely a passing thought. Hating a foreign government more than home grown fascists is an american past time at this point. Shows where the "centrists" and "free speech advocates" sympathies lie.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Tbf exploding heads is defederated even more extensively than we are, and are much smaller instance than us, a lot of them probably aren’t even aware of exploding heads

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lemmygrad: 😴

Lemmy: "tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie tankie"

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago
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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmygrad is already acknowledged by all other instances to be itself a power.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

They know that when the fade passes away, we will still be here, strong. :)

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I had an irl conversation the other day which hammered this point home. Westoids cannot psychologically handle being called out on being wrong, not knowing something, and on being prejudiced. That and all the other material reasons we know and discuss regularly mean that this instance, no matter how small, is a thorn in their eye, a spectre haunting their dreams.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago

Especially the prejudice, it’s always that we need to save Chinese people from their government, it’s always some extension of the white man’s burden couched in softer language

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It really is treated as a "sin" to be ignorant of something in the west. Personally, I love not knowing something, because it means I get to learn something, but again, education in the west is treated as "that thing that happens when you're 6-18 and no other time." and refuse to ever try to educate themselves as adults.

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[–] JoeKrogan 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well I'm reading this on .world so it is not blocked there. I think these days people like to put others in boxes to make it easier to have us vs them.

Personally I only block spammers and abusive accounts. I consider myself socialist too if that matters.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, we aren’t blocked by 2 of the biggest instances. I didn’t mean “half the users”, but every time I see a new instance in a username I go check their blocklist and it seems like ~1/2 the time lemmygrad is blocked. You would be welcome to post here even if you weren’t a socialist, you just can’t post capitalism apologia

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are quite a few socialists over at .world. And some others who aren't socialists but willing to talk in good faith. It's nice to see you and them over here.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

300? We must have ADHD cus we active as hell and I barely participate

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

Per the sidebar right now it's just 150 per day, 350 a week, and 669 per month.

I think we're preeeetty active for our numbers.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I meant like people who regularly post or comment, we have way more lurkers than 300

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago

Some ppl in this comment section be like:

capitalist coping fascist coping

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I love how the Spector seems to imply an evil in the heads of most Normans. I see it in my friends group and I will admit I had heard the line in the past and thought the same. Then I decided to actually read instead of parrot and realized it's a Spector in the same literary sense as the Spectors from A Christmas Carol that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge.

The Spector of Communism exposes the world to the material realities of it's past and present, which lay the stones that lead to the grim shadows of a future yet to come. Shadows, dear reader, that we might change by leading an altered life.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Long live tankies!!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is why I made my own instance, when the large instances defederate from one another they are effectively censoring and controlling what you see. In most cases, that means banning any sort of marxist discussion.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And all their users don't realise that the reason those censoring instances look more like Reddit is because Reddit had a campaign to censor all radical speech. It's not rare because radical speech isn't popular, it's rare because it's hidden and crushed.

Would you talk me briefly through setting up your own instance? Do you just run it when you want to go online or do you need to stay connected with a 24/7 self-hosted server? Don't answer these questions if it means sharing details that would compromise your security.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

campaign to censor all radical speech.

Yeah, reminds me of posting in r/socialism101. Got a bunch of responses in from communists but my being able to see them and associated notifications were very delayed, indicating Reddit gave some kind of hidden shadow ban on their posts and the mods were manually approving them.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OooooOOOooooOoooOOo spooooky!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought it was Wisconcom.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be a spectre haunting lemmygrad, comrade, although that gives way too much weight to him tbh

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's more like a smelly fart, an occasional nuissance

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Tankies are the greatest! 😎

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

funny.. i had Lemmy.ml bookmarked in a browser i rarely use and it says it's an online place for leftists. couldn't be further from the truth these days

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[–] aloeha 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Aren't the lemmy.ml admins MLs too though? Or was that proven false? Either way, I don't tend to see commie stuff on that instance bc it's bigger and doesn't cater to us tankies like this one does.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure they are, but don't mean for the instance to be.

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