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Meta community. Discuss about this lemmy instance or lemmy in general.

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~500 comments about our instance and admins in the past week. Talk about needing to touch some grass...

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago (1 children)

they help in keeping the crypto-fash in check

Unless your users at large are crypto fascists I don't think you need crypto authoritarians to keep crypto fascists in check.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Well their criticism of the current system is on-point, and they can help counter pro-capitalism ideologues. It's just that their praxis tends to be shite when they try to be all "vanguard of the proletariat" or overuse their "bullying" as a tactic.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago (2 children)

they can help counter pro-capitalism ideologues

Only with authoritarian ideals, and while supporting places like China and N. Korea, giving capitalists every reason to mock what the tankies falsely present as communism.

Like, you do you, but personally simply having anti-capitalism in common isn't enough to overlook the oppressive ideas they preach and support (even if indirectly, by using that instance specifically, they actively endorse and condone those ideals), just like having anti-stateism in common isn't enough to overlook the oppressive ideas "an"caps preach and support.

They're telling you who they are, the best thing you can do is listen (and if any of these users really are that chill and not at all tankies like you give them credit for, they should understand why being affiliated with authoritarians is a red flag to most users, and have no problem creating an account on another instance that isn't bringing mass defederation on to itself by brigading and harassing anyone who doesn't agree with their oppressive views)