• 🅃🅾🅆🅴🄻🅸🄴@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    8 minutes ago

    Just chiming to throw some light hearted shade at lemmy.world for defederating from the piracy communities. My time on lemmy.world was really poor, and I came away not thinking too highly of Lemmy as a whole. My experience in different instances has been a world of difference, and I finally get fantastic content in my feeds and am fully on board with Lemmy

  • Actionschnils@feddit.org
    5·
    1 hour ago

    Memes under lemmy.ml glorified stalin just shortly ago. My first post calling Stalin a Monster and explaining a little, was just deleted. Afterwards they tried to tell me that all his crimes and crulties were fake news or necessary evils.

    Prett fucked up imho

  • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    Yes, but on which instance? Lemmy.ml is not controversy free and Lemmy.world already hosts like 50% of Lemmy alone. I think the only viable option that everyone could agree on would be another instance, but that would just leave us with 3 communities.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      56 minutes ago

      Exactly. Instead why don’t let grow MORE NICHE communities with specific kind of memes on smaller instances?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        2·
        34 minutes ago

        That happens on active but themed instances like Hexbear, the problem is the drive to replicate a “generalist” instance. The fewer “general” instances the better the niches grow.

  • IngeniousRocks (They/She) @lemmy.dbzer0.com
    26·
    8 hours ago

    I blocked .world because it’s a centrist shit hole that serves to do nothing but piss me off with whiners who don’t do shit about fuck complaining about tankies and fascists as though their no side taking ass even has a fucking seat at the table.

    Fuck .world

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            5·
            47 minutes ago

            Painting Communists and fascists as equal evils originated as a form of Holocaust trivialization called “Double Genocide Theory.” The goal was to make the Nazis seem not as bad by painting the Soviets as just another evil, regardless of material reality. The reality is that Communists have historically been an overall quite positive force compared to liberalism and fascism. I recommend reading Blackshirts and Reds to see an honest comparison and critique that highlights just how wrong equating fascism with Communism is.

            • Actionschnils@feddit.org
              2·
              33 minutes ago

              First of all: I didnt set them equal. I just said I wouldnt chose either. If you are offering me two meals: A deadly vial of arsenic and some garbage out of your trash, i wouldnt chose too.

              And furthermore: Tankie (as far as I understand this word) doesnt mean communist. And the communists I know, dont want to be seen like this.

              So please try not to mention the shoah thoughtlessly in such discussions. Because this would definitly mean a trivialization.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                2·
                28 minutes ago

                Equal or similar in awfulness, neither is accurate to reality, and again, has roots in the aforementioned method of Holocaust trivialization called Double Genocide Theory.

                “Tankie” is a caricature. The idea of a tankie is the ideal vision of a McCarthyian Communist. In reality, the overwhelming majority of people labeled as such don’t actually fit that label, it’s more of a way to cast an image of someone’s positions based on, say, support for AES countries, and twist that into the evil Commie Pinko that haunts the dreams of 1960s children in the US.

                No Communist wants to be seen as this caricature, they’d rather be seen as the Marxists they are, but those who use the term “Tankie” as though it has any meaning contribute to the demonization of Communists.

            • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
              1·
              46 minutes ago

              Hey i remember you. last time we had this convo and i pointed out some key facts about the dissolution of the USSR (after you claimed it was murdered) you threw an epic tantrum and started screaming about fake news.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                3·
                40 minutes ago

                I don’t remember any of that at all, mind linking it? What facts did I deny? The USSR was dissolved intentionally, not really as a result of inherent issues with Socialism, that’s true at least.

                Edit: oh, I found it in your modlog. I didn’t throw an “epic tantrum,” nor did I scream. I responded to your claims with evidence and articles after you gish-galloped, and then you refused to read them because you didn’t want to “do homework.” Odd miscategorization, I must say.

                • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
                  1·
                  39 minutes ago

                  What a wonderful misrepresentation of reality. Ah well, as you said, it’s modlogged so good luck pretending

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        3·
        52 minutes ago

        I’d take the Marxists over the literal Nazis 10000 times out of 10000, and not a single time would there even be a microsecond of contemplation. One only need to know that the Nazis industrialized mass murder and the Communists focused on improving the lives of the working class to know that it isn’t even worth comparing.

  • RedSnt@feddit.dk
    30·
    11 hours ago

    I’m quite deliberately avoiding lemmy.world, so no, we shouldn’t just put everything on there.

  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    It would be tight if there was a local option(What we have now) and a All option that let’s you see all the communities across all federated spaces that share that same name.

  • Karu 🐲@lemmy.ml
    78·
    23 hours ago

    There was some proposal that I have seen multiple times on Lemmy and at least once on the GitHub repo that communities should be able to subscribe to each other much like users can subscribe to communities. I vastly prefer this to other proposals such as auto-merging communities with the same name, which I can think of a few ways that can go wrong.

    It would also be reasonably intuitive for the average user, since following stuff is already a familiar action you take on social media. You wouldn’t really need to understand the quirks of federation to know why posting to one community makes it appear on other downstream communities. And as far as I know about ActivityPub (which is admittedly not much), it’s not a stretch use it to implement a feature like this.

    I wonder if this proposal ever reached anywhere.

      • Karu 🐲@lemmy.ml
        17·
        22 hours ago

        The idea that I’m talking about is actually more like communities forming a network, with chains of following. If I host a new instance and create a memes community in it, I’d like to start having that community follow memes @ lemmy.ml and memes @ lemmy.world, so that the community already has content from the get-go, but users may be able to post memes that are unique to my instance and its followers. The followers would also see memes from upstream unless my community unfollows them, as long as they don’t also follow them independently.

        This model of the network would allow each community to independently determine which other communities it thematically implies, without the user having to follow all 4 communities with the same name but different content across the platform.

        The multireddit suggestion is more like having directories/tags for communities. It wouldn’t achieve quite the same thing, but it would be useful as well. Both ideas can coexist and complement each other.

        • Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.orgOP
          9·
          23 hours ago

          That’s a hyperlink. Some new www-stuff which was recently developed in one of our planet’s greates research Institutes which also has a great particle collider.

      • OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world
        6·
        24 hours ago

        To be fair, it is one form of centralization; although, I admit, I was twisting the meaning of the term a bit to fit my sarcastic remark.

        That being said, as primarily a shitposting lurker who only occasionally actually creates content designed for sharing, I don’t mind the extra communities. I’m no stranger to seeing reposts, and I get my kicks from leaving the odd comment that may or may not spawn some sort of rant (usually from myself, not the other parties), but hopefully just tickles someone, and then scrolling to the next. If it’s the same thing, I just keep scrollin’.

        I could see how it would be irritating to post to multiple communities designed around the same idea, but perhaps the solution is more like turning each community into an aggregate of all similar communities. You could opt your community into a master community, and any post made in one would get shared to all of them.