I remember when I joined here that tchncs did not federate with Lemmygrad. Is there a reason why it is now? I don’t think it’s a good instance, since it full of (roleplaying) communists hating on the western world… and I wouldn’t want that shit in my “All” feed. Thank you.
Having a central committee of approval sure sounds like communism to me… /jk
Seriously though, we are all going to want different stuff in All. As a user I would like the choice to block an instance, or not.
I dont like them either, but I prefer to federate with as many instances as possible. Its our choice as users to block instances on our feeds or not.
So you would be ok to occassionally get Gore, Nazi shit, CSAM and other awful stuff in your feed?
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 25•1 year ago
TIL being a communist who criticized the West for the evils of our society is the same thing as gore, Nazi shit, and csam.
Cry harder lib
Not necessarily the same, but what I said would also be a consequence of the “users free choice”.
Also yes, Communist and Nazi shit is the same!
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 5•1 year ago
Tell me you know nothing about communism and nazism. Wanna know the craziest shit? Throughout the world since the end of world war 2 a pattern has emerged. Communists would launch a revolution to overthrow western backed dictators and the US would support fascists to keep them under control. Even before WW2 the Nazis got most of their ideas from the US, a liberal democracy. Curious. So if we have the communists, the Nazis who are fascists, and the US who support fascists which two sound more alike to you…
Now if you want to argue the bolshevism is authoritarian as fuck then sure yeah it is. But that was only the dominant strain of communist beliefs because the libs betrayed Rosa Luxemburg to (surprise surprise) the fascists causing the revolution in Germany to fail and passing the torch to Russia, land of oppression and the Tsars. Is anyone shocked that the people in one of the most backwater oppressed parts of Europe turned out to be authoritarian as fuck? And once they became the only state pushing for communism every other revolution had to enact their brand of communism or be left to fight the US on their own.
The ideal of Nazism is to oppress and destroy the other while building up the “tribe” and maintaining traditional power structures.
The ideal of Communism is to liberate the masses and achieve equality.
They are not the same.
The ideal of Communism is to liberate the masses and achieve equality.
So far we’ve seen dictatorships that killed the masses ._.
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year ago
Same thing with the West that you are so opposed to critiquing. And I know you know how to read so I know you know WHY it is like that. But it’s not the only way. The free territory of Ukraine and Anarchist Barcelona were both communist and neither of them were authoritarian in their “rule”. They were the only real attempt at actual communism vs what the Bolshevists did, which was create a strong vanguard state until such a time as communism was ready to come forth. And they were both effective at doing it. They only disappeared because of the wars they were in (Russian/Soviet civil war and Spanish civil war respectively)
I wonder how korea fits into that view, overthrowing the western backed dictators sure didn’t work out that well for the North Koreans. And what are your thoughts on the Khmer Rouge, chinas mao etc… I don’t think any of those regimes would have turned out any nicer even if there had been a successful communist enclave in Europe.
It looks to me as if communism in practice is little more than a thinly veiled ploy to fool uneducated masses into accepting a authoritarian government. Personally I think that it’s a fragile system that’s extremely vulnerable to be taken over by authoritarians “in the name of the people”. It‘s an idealistic system, and idealism is similar to religion in the sense that it’s prone to radicalisation because it’s members consider themselves to be right and just by default. It’s also prone to sacrifice individuals(even lots and lots of individuals) for the sake of the “whole”, which tends to be the 1% at the top in practice.
please debate this somewhere else, this is not the place
I want to be able to choose what I see. I think we all should. This is just my opinion.
While I don’t agree with Lemmygrad politically, they are civil, respect community rules and don’t spam. It’s not like they are calling for violence or posting CP or unmarked gore. If you don’t want to see socialists in your feed, just block them.
Marxist Leninist/Stalinist viewpoints are violent by default. It’s completely part of their theory that violent revolution is required to overthrow the status quo to implement the Vanguard State (more violence, though through the guise of conformity) and without that there is no ability to transition to communist society.
Because tchncs understands that without free speech we have no hope of dealing with any of the problems that concern us.
Federation status
social.tchncs.de does not believe in censorship. Federation is a network service and suspension of federation with another server will only be implemented as a last resort where content from another server may cause problems under German law, or in cases of technical difficulties or hostile or malicious activity.
Because tchncs understands that without free speech we have no hope of dealing with any of the problems that concern us.
I just had a blog post detailing tax records of a software org get deleted because a mod doesn’t like the guy pointing out the tax records.
overpowered mods. this is exactly how a dictatorship regime starts
sorry about that. i was sure i had it added again after the restore of our blocklist based on mastodon a little while back. it is now on the list… again… .
Thanks so much for hosting this instance.
Sorry for my ignorance, but would you mind clarifying which of your rules lemmygrad violated to get on your blocklist?
- caused problems under German law
- caused technical difficulties
- engaged in hostile activity
- engaged in malicious activity
i understand that you are disappointed and it does not have to be a permanent decision. right now i lack time and energy to give it a close look again. earlier the instance did not look like something we should federate with based on its general content and our experience.
People need to stop agitating for defederation on the basis of politics.
If you want a safe space for one or another “team,” start one yourself. I’m not interested in participating on instances which engage in this type of petty behavior.
Same with hexbear.
The real question is why is blocked again.