Come one come all to the Lemmy-verse! It’s nice and cozy here, we do have some “bad parts of town” but you can do an instance block and not deal with them lol

For your memes we have !memes@lemmy.world if you like sciency posts mander.xyz has some excellent communities (communities=subreddits) like !science@mander.xyz and !biology@mander.xyz and for a meme science combo theres always the fantastic !science_memes@mander.xyz

You can also drop a shit(post) off at !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world or hang out at !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone (though you do have to post before you leave that one!)

There’s much more around as well!

Obligatory, fuck Spez

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    32 minutes ago

    Can someone explain like I’m 5 how being against Nazis and capitalism is authoritarian bootlicking? Seems like the exact opposite.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      42·
      16 minutes ago

      Authoritarianism isn’t exclusive to capitalism. You can have a communist country that is Authoritarian, like China or Russia. But they will fervently deny that China and Russia are Authoritarian, the various human rights abuses and lack of freedom at their feet in order to promote Authoritarian style Communism

      They are against Nazis, but they apply that label to just about everyone who is against their views and/or what China/Russia pushes. They will say that Ukraine is completely run by Nazis for example, a propaganda line right out of Moscow.

  • sexy_peach@feddit.orgEnglish
    81·
    2 hours ago

    I was on Lemmy when lemmy.ml was the biggest server and I’m glad that despite the biggest server being tankie nominated Lemmy could grow into what it is today.

  • Deanosim@infosec.pubEnglish
    7·
    4 hours ago

    Woo \o/ Hopefully this time the server I picked won’t suddenly vanish and take all the communities I’d managed to find and subscribe to from me. 😅 Gonna make sure I make regular exports and maybe have a second account on another server just incase.

  • blind3rdeye@lemm.eeEnglish
    197·
    6 hours ago

    For awhile I thought that there were stacks of people on lemmy.world constantly complaining about tankies. But now I’m starting to realise that most of the posts are from this one dude, cm0002. Frankly, it’s a little bit weird.

  • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
    4019·
    12 hours ago

    You can tell they’re communists cuz they live rent free in the heads of every .world user.

    • WrenFeathers@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      5 hours ago

      This would be incorrect.

      For them to even have the option of rent being waived, that would have to mean that we are all in some sense- landlords. And it’s commonly known in these parts that landlords are supposed to be greedy capitalistic pig-dogs, so, this being true-

      There’s no reality in which anyone or anything is rent free in our heads.

    • xapr [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      167·
      11 hours ago

      Most definitely. I’m getting pretty sick and tired of the constant complaining about those Lemmy instances.

      • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        42·
        2 hours ago

        tankies aren’t communists. Marx would’ve laughed at authoritarians calling themselves communists

        • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          29 minutes ago

          They aren’t tankies though. That’s just a label applied by everyone else when the communists point out supporting Nazis is bad.

          • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            22·
            24 minutes ago

            anyone who supports China isn’t a communist, end of discussion. you couldn’t define communism even with Das Kapital in front of you

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    73·
    16 hours ago

    Also, it defaults to “Active” view, which is the least updated. You can set your posts to “Hot” and then switch between “Top 6 Hours” and “Top 12 Hours” to get the most of your experience here. It will seem dead with the default.

    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      28·
      15 hours ago

      I usually sort by new comments. Sometimes you’ll see 1 year old post still active in the comments. It’s neat

    • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      15 hours ago

      I still wish there was a better sort algorithm. Nothing compares to Reddit’s front page algorithm. I usually cycle between hot and top 12 hours.

      • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        6 hours ago

        I think it is good that we don’t have reddits front page algorithm. I want to stay in charge of curating my feed and prefer there not to be intransparent fuckery in the background.

        I want to know that a post with 850 upvotes has indeed been upvoted by 900 accounts and downvoted by 50 accounts, instead of some weird calculations up- or downscaling it.

        • danc4498@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          5 hours ago

          I’m definitely not saying the algorithm should be a hidden secret, or lie about the up/down vote count. It is all open source of course!

          Reddit had this sweet spot where it could push some trending posts to the top of the page within 30 minutes, but also let a story sit for a few hours while it was getting lots of engagement. But generally there is a new front page every few hours or so.

          The only way I can get this is by alternating between hot and top 12 hours. But even this is nowhere near as good as the Reddit algorithm.

          • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
            2·
            3 hours ago

            I checked a translator. In my main language intransparent is the typical term to mean the opposite of transparency in the context of actions of politicans, institutions, etc. The word seem to exist in English but not really used like this.

            How would you refer to something, where the information is withheld, even though it should be available information to legitimize the way something is handled, i.e. a government agency?

            • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
              4·
              3 hours ago

              Yeah I understood what you meant by “intransparent” but it’s not something I’ve ever heard anyone say. “Opaque” is the opposite of the literal meaning of transparent, e.g. a window is transparent, a wall is opaque.

              To describe information not being shown I’d probably say obfuscated, opaque, or maybe just hidden.

            • Frank Casa@frank.casa
              4·
              3 hours ago

              In the United States, “lack of transparency” or “not transparent” is mostly used. Although “opaque” is sometimes used in some circles of people.

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4424·
    13 hours ago

    Man you’re getting worse than the hexbear edgelords who just shit on the liberals all day, except at least they’re yelling at people in power and not some extremely marginal leftists who would be shot before they could ever take a seat in politics.

    A good rule of politics is if someone or an ideology that you don’t like and they have no power or connection to power just ignore them, especially if there on your side for 90% of actual relevant issues. Not theoretical issues that may pop up after the revolution that may never come.

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3218·
      12 hours ago

      A good rule of politics is if someone or an ideology that you don’t like and they have no power or connection to power just ignore them, especially if there on your side for 90% of actual relevant issues. Not theoretical issues that may pop up after the revolution that may never come.

      Sounds good, except I believe them to be actively harmful to the reputation of the Lemmy-verse, so it’s important to make a clear stand, if total defederation isn’t happening.

      I’d rather not Lemmy end up as another Voat. I’ve already seen tons of stories from the original rexit of “I tried Lemmy, but .ml/hex/grad seemed cringy/hostile so I left”

      • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
        62·
        6 hours ago

        I think that people who choose corporate media, where /r/the_donald sentiments are actively reinforced by the corporation, over lemmy, because they found hex/grad/ml users “cringe/hostile” are not comparing things on a neutral basis.

      • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
        914·
        12 hours ago

        the reputation of the Lemmy-verse

        As long as the main devs of Lemmy are Dessalines and other communists, then the reputation of the Lemmy-verse being tied to a bunch of highly communist instances is just an objectively correct fact. Liberals are free to fork their own version of the software and call it something else.

        • cm0002@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          2214·
          12 hours ago

          Tankies, they’re tankies, there’s nothing wrong with the theory of communism. What makes a Tankie, is the support of Authoritarian regimes and turning a blind eye to genocides and many other human rights violations when committed by said regimes

          And also, there’s nothing Tankie about Lemmy itself. It’s just computer code that is a Reddit-like link aggregator. It falls under separating the art from the artist. And because it’s open source, there’s no concern of financially supporting it either from its use (unless you make an explicit choice to donate)

          • Bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.orgEnglish
            76·
            6 hours ago

            What makes a Tankie, is the support of Authoritarian regimes and turning a blind eye to genocides and many other human rights violations when committed by said regimes

            That’s exactly what liberals of Lemmy do though.

            When was the last time you spoke against Zelensky’s regime, that literally turned my country into a concentration camp that people cannot leave and are kidnapped off the streets (and even fucking hospitals!) in front of their crying wives/mothers, to be sent into the meatgrinder and never be seen again?

            That’s a rhetorical question, of course you never did (and those who do, including me, are paid Russian shills, tankies or just bots). Because for a liberal, it’s never “authoritarianism bad” or “Nazism bad” or “human rights violations bad” or anything like this - it’s only bad when the other side is doing it. When “the good guys” are doing it, it’s not just totally acceptable, the guy is a hero.

            • surph_ninja@lemmy.worldEnglish
              12·
              25 minutes ago

              He won’t speak against Zelensky’s regime, because he’s not opposed to fascists. He’s just trying to pretend his basic Sinophobia, and racism against Asians, is some kind of political philosophy.

              If they actually cared about “the reputation of Lemmy,” they wouldn’t be tying it to CIA propaganda.

          • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
            24·
            6 hours ago

            there’s nothing wrong with the theory of communism

            snigger

          • Carl@lemm.eeEnglish
            715·
            12 hours ago

            I just think there’s a contradiction in a) continuing to use a platform that is developed primarily by Communists and b) thinking that the platform being associated with Communists “actively harmful to the reputation of the Lemmyverse”. The fact is that the Lemmyverse is associated with Communists - or “tankies” as you insist on calling them - and so if that’s its reputation then the reputation is accurate.

            • 9bananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
              83·
              6 hours ago

              there’s no contradiction, because the developer does not matter. that’s the entire point of FOSS.

              it could be written by a literal nazi (not that there’s a big difference between brown and red fascists) and it wouldn’t matter one bit.

              that’s the entire beauty of FOSS!

              we ALL own the code.

              if Dessalines ever stops developing it, anyone can take over.

              if Dessalines implements code the community at large doesn’t like, anyone can create a fork and change that specific part and continue from there.

              we can see exactly what the code does, and can create new versions at any point.

              that was always the reason behind decentralized, open source networks:

              nobody can own it.

              • rah@feddit.ukEnglish
                51·
                5 hours ago

                we ALL own the code

                No you don’t. As a user, you don’t get a share of the copyright of free software, you get a license (permission) from the copyright owner. The copyright owner owns the code, not all of you.

                • 9bananas@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  12·
                  5 hours ago

                  i mean…yeah? kinda? on a technicality?

                  Developers that use our General Public Licenses protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.

                  you assert the first part as fact and then kinda skip over the second part…at least that’s how i read your comment.

                  yes, the copyright owner (the creator) “owns” the work…but then immediately uses said ownership to explicitly allow everyone else to do just about anything with it, short of claiming it as one’s own creation.

                  you are the best kind of correct, but only that kind.