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):
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.
I think it’s fair to complain about censorship on a platform that was founded on anti-censorship.
Who told you that?
The post linked in the OP where the lemmy Dev says that’s why he made lemmy.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/
No it wasn’t
I was just going by what the lemmy Dev said in his Reddit post. He said he made it to circumvent Reddit censorship.
https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/
Goose wielding butter knife: Reddit censorship of whomst?
You are only censored on lemmy.ml, not on the rest of the network. You can write whatever you want, but lemmy.ml has no duty to tolerate racists in their house.
I think it’s not fair to complain about “censorship” when the decentral nature of the platform is made to avoid it. Especially not when you haven’t contributed to the codebase. You can open your own nstance at any time.
And people can (and should) defederate the propaganda machine lemmy.ml at any time.