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

  • @NOT_RICKEnglish
    27•23 days ago

    Nothing wrong with holding a political stance, but they routinely ban people for specious reasons. With some of the biggest communities on .ml this is a problem for the growth of Lemmy.

    • @[email protected]English
      -8•23 days ago

      Nothing wrong with holding a political stance, but they routinely ban people for specious reasons.

      OP should have left the politics and personal smears out of it then and opened a discussion about moderation practices. And as OP points out, the person he’s primarily smearing is the main Lemmy dev. What’s the endgame there? Trying to get the main dev thrown off his own project?

      • Chozo
        13•23 days ago

        OP should have left the politics and personal smears out of it then and opened a discussion about moderation practices

        That’s… exactly what OP did, though. Did you even read the post?

        • @[email protected]English
          -5•23 days ago

          What does it lead with? A comment about moderation or a comment about the devs politics and opinions?

          (Edit: and the subject line says nothing about moderation)

        • @[email protected]English
          -1•23 days ago

          Subject line: Nothing about moderation or censorship, it’s about smearing the target’s views.

          First two sentences: Nothing about moderation or censorship, it’s about smearing the target’s views.

          Third sentence: Links to archive.org link that fails to load. (I think they are still under DoS attack) May or may not be about moderation, but nothing OP wrote in the leadup to the link leads me to believe it’s about more than smearing the target’s views.

          Then a couple links that sound like they are about discussing moderation.

          Then another para smearing the target’s opinions and politics some more.

          Yep, OP was really about moderation and censorship, not about a personal attack. /s