And for anyone asking "Why are we boycotting/blocking lemmy.ml?" Here's a quick recap:
Lemmy.ml is an instance run by admins who are hardcore tankies and will enforce their ideology on their instance through various means from allowing (and pushing it themselves) propaganda (Such as Russia being justified in some way to invade Ukraine) and known propaganda outlets (Like RT) to removing content on their instance critical of their favored authoritarian regimes such as Russia or China and even banning users for such speech or speech critical of them if it's off their instance (Just like the Reddit mods of ol!).
If it was just some random instance it would have been defederated from long ago like the rest of the "Tankie Triad" (Hexbear and Lemmygrad), but they've positioned lemmy.ml as the "flagship" instance and abused that position and influence to become large enough to keep other instances from defederating from them.
Which I believe is harmful to the Lemmy-verse's overall growth and outside reputation. I have seen it come up before on Reddit threads (and other testimonials from people who came back and tried it again) that "They tried Lemmy but it was a bunch of tankies and went back to Reddit"
I don't know about you, but I'd prefer Lemmy to not end up with the reputation for being "Tankie Central " or even worse "Voat 2.0".
So if you haven't joined the boycott yet, join today and help us foster a better healthier Lemmy-verse!
You can take a look around here on [email protected] for documentation of it or checkout this list of curated documentation
On bans and censorships:
https://lemmy.world/post/28480760
https://lemmy.world/post/28481615
https://lemmy.world/post/28482147
https://lemmy.world/post/28480936
https://lemmy.world/post/28482273
https://lemmy.world/post/28481272
https://lemmy.world/post/28481064
https://lemmy.world/post/27674360
https://lemmy.world/post/27674117
https://lemmy.world/post/27673934
https://lemmy.world/post/27673724
https://lemmy.world/post/27577337
https://lemmy.world/post/27378634
https://lemmy.world/post/27346630
https://lemmy.world/post/27341283
https://lemmy.world/post/27288224
https://lemmy.world/post/27156418
https://lemmy.world/post/27054157
https://lemmy.world/post/27008261
Allowing altered headlines and permitting known propaganda outlets:
https://lemmy.world/post/28275465
https://lemmy.world/post/27428838
https://lemmy.world/post/27416097
https://lemmy.world/post/27314050
https://lemmy.world/post/27288953
Spreading Russia talking points like the Ukraine invasion just being a "negotiating tactic" !https://lemmy.world/post/27012640
General negative sentiment to other instances who haven't "seen the way" yet: https://lemmy.world/post/27426510
Open declaration of support for Russia (direct from dessalines (head admin)) https://lemmy.world/post/27352415
"concentration camps were just reeducation camps and weren't that bad" https://lemmy.world/post/26985447
Capitalist propaganda, also known as reality
Wut? Reality fits no ideology. If it did, it wouldn't be an ideology, just reality. If capitalism ever worked as intended. It hasn't been since the 19th century. And I think that's a pretty specious claim itself. Leninism hasn't made good on it's claims either. They both suck and have been disproven. Society has changed, technology has changed. Perhaps it's time to try something new?
That's true, reality has no ideology.
But in reality, capitalist countries like America, Canada, Germany, South Korea, and so on, are prosperous.
Meanwhile, look at communist countries, Russia, China, Cuba. They all are shitholes.
There is plenty of capitalist shitholes as well.
Russia is no longer communist. China is communist only in name.
None of them aren't communist, most of them aren't shit holes either. Just traditionally way more oppressive than the US. Though we're racing to catch up.
Your just parroting the same propaganda the rest of us grew up with. Again not saying Russia and China are good. But if you think Russia and China etc are shitholes. Outside of the heavy social repression I'd like to know what differentiates them from us.
Russia stopped being a part of the Soviet Union around 35 years ago. Capitalist reform (more specifically 'shock therapy') led to huge increases in child mortality, the establishment of mail-order brides and child prostitution, and the rise of its oligarchs. Things were so bad in the 90s and early 2000s that someone as horrible as Putin was considered an improvement, that's how bad capitalism was for Russia.
I am critical of China, it has serious problems, but I don't understand how someone can call it a shithole (and not say the same about America). Let alone suggesting one of the biggest economies in the world is not prosperous. It's not the 80s anymore. There are valid critiques but that's not one of them - if anything the 'communist states' are renowned for rapidly transforming multiple pre-industrial backwaters into world superpowers.
South Korea is an odd choice, given it's already up to its Sixth Republic due to various coups and dictatorships and, if I'm not mistaken, its last three presidents were impeached.
cuba you can’t really draw any conclusions from because they continue to exist despite a blockade by the largest economy in the world
that tends to fuck you up
"We can't trade with one capitalist country, therefore our economy has collapsed" is not a stunning refutation of capitalism.
I'm more inclined to believe that Cuba's well-documented internal economic problems are to blame rather than regarding it as necessary for a socialist state to be supported by capitalists in order to exist at a decent standard of living.
it wasn’t meant to be a refutation of capitalism… all i’m saying is that there are significant confounding factors that have very little to do with the issue at hand, so that particular example shouldn’t be used as a refutation of communism