Edit - I said “site” because I didn’t know how to even describe whatever this is
There’s a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.
A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.
Damn! I have started loving this place more 😂
It’s gonna be fun arguing with commies
Welcome comrade!
Mostly just liberal/social democrat with a sizeable and vocal minority of socialists and communists.
Generally, the American vision of “left”, or European center and left.
Yeah, but only the good kind.
I guess I’m the one only getting the bad apples
Well, you’ve only been here a day. Give it time.
We’re an anarcho-syndicalist community. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.
Strange developers lying on GitHub distributing software is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical coding ceremony.
I mean, if I went around sayin’ it was a pinko site just because some trippin coder had lobbed federation at it, they’d put me away!
I don’t even know if you’re trolling or you’re serious
Not trolling, probably just too old for you. This is a Monty Python reference :)
Help! Help! I’m being oppressed!
I think the reason you dont understand many comments in this thread is because you dont seem to know what a “communist” it. People are answering your question based on the official definition, but you are going by a gut feeling that probably springs form propaganda and biases in your community. I encourage you to read up on communism if you really want to know.
If youre just here to pick fights with no knowledge to back up your claims, youre on the right track.A of its instances and users are. If u want an instance that isn’t as extreme left check out hilariouschaos.com. A bunch of lemmy users will call it a Nazi bar despite having none of such content.
Yes in the sense that mostly the communists inhabit it. No in the sense that, because it is decentralised, no one can force you do to a particular thing if you host your own instance
So in that way if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
I’m new here so I don’t know much about these
Think of federated services (namely lemmy) like a phone carrier. There’s a bunch of them, and you can call numbers on other networks easily, as they speak a common protocol. You (or your carrier) can always block either individual numbers, or entire carries. The thing here is, being a carrier (an instance) of lemmy is somewhat easy to do, and you can always switch carriers based on their moderation policies.
Hope this is a decent explanation.
That’s a good explanation… Thanks for that
Also, tip, pretty sure that in the default web interface there is a toggle to deactivate bot posts. These bots are often just reposting what is on Reddit to try to stuff lemmy with content, but I tend to leave them deactivated. Also, never forget that the best thing after staying in a pit like this, is to touch a bit of grass ;P
if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
Yes. You can always create a new account on a different instance.
Lemmy is a federated platform, not a single website, nor a single community.
It’s neither communist nor a site.
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All websites are inherently communist
How? Could you please explain that
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Average commie
That strikes me as humor but who knows.
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Damn! That’s literally the most cliche comment a liberal or a commie gives in the internet
I don’t think cliche means what you think it means
An action or a phrase which is overused or overdone in such a way that it doesn’t hold any meaning
Isn’t that the meaning?
Well websites are moneyless, classless, and stateless friend. We aren’t talking about rocket appliances here. Do you even definition?
As someone who has managed a website: This is utter bullshit.
A website is someones private property and the organization is purely hierarchical in nature. It goes owner > admin > moderator > user and each one has control over the others.
The components to host a site (a server, hard drives, etc.) cost money. The connection to the internet costs money. The physical location costs money to exist in.
That private property still lives in a physical location and must abide by local laws. The laws differ based on the physical location, but there are laws they must abide by, all the same.
Hell, to even connect to a website I have to pass data over numerous different pieces of private property on the way to the site I want. Each step potentially cataloging the data I sent along the way, if the data is unencrypted. Even certificates which allow us to pass encrypted data to and from a site come from centralized groups called Certificate Authorities.
When someone bans you, what options do you even realistically have other than getting your own private property and spinning up your own site? Usually arguing about a ban goes badly.
I want some of whatever you’re smoking. Websites are the complete opposite of open and community operated. Computers were never built for democracy.
What stuff are you even smoking?
The commie stuff I’m smoking is just a fetish, a substitute for the lack that constitutes the human condition. You’re trying to fill the void with your disavowal, but the void remains, and that’s what’s driving your desire
No, Lemmy is the software. How can software be “communist”? How does it own the means of production" ? Seems an odd question.
You can have instances that are run by folks that have a communist bent (thank goodess for that) or instances run by all sorts of folks and instances federate and talk to each other (and can be blocked) but that’s a separate thing.
Seems an odd question
I meant are the people in Lemmy communist in general
No, there are a lot of us who are quite left-leaning but abhor tankie-style communism. I’m personally more democratic socialist, though living in a country like Australia means that’s not just a pipe-dream.
This is almost like asking if all social media sites are communist because reddit has a communism subreddit. (More accurate to say the question would be like asking if all phpbb are communist because theres a communist board or two out there, but idk if the general pop even knows what a php board is anymore)
Lemmy isn’t a site- it’s a piece of software.
The software is developed by communists and there are communist sites running lemmy. However the guys developing the software’s political opinions don’t affect the work itself. It’s open source also.
However the guys developing the software’s political opinions don’t affect the work itself
That’s what I wanted to hear… Thanks bro
Lemmy isn’t a site at all. It’s a piece of software.