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.
This is such a typical liberal answer. The value isn’t just created by the users’ post but by the collective network effect of all the users being in one place. That is not replicated when a new instance is created. Tankies know this which is why they’re acting like old Reddit mods with retaliatory style moderation.
You’re referring to discussion and posting as though it’s a commodity. Please read Marx, lol
I have read Marx, unlike you who’s just learned about Lenin through memes.
The network effect is a commodity. That’s why X and Facebook fight for users and put them in walled gardens.
Their valuations are based engagement. The most powerful and successful capitalist enterprises in history are all social media companies but okay discussion isn’t a commodity. How myopic can you be.
The network effect is not a commodity. Lemmy is not produced for profit, it has no Value. Reread Capital, Volume 1, Chapter 1. It has a Use-Value, but no Exchange-Value and is not produced for profit. Capitalism necessitates profit and an M-C-M’ circuit by which Capitalists accumulate, which is absent from Lemmy entirely.
You’re deeply unserious.
Another pedantic tankie argument. Just because something is not being exchanged doesn’t mean it can’t.
Regardless originally I said the network effect had value, not that it was a commodity. And the VALUE cannot be replicated by building another instance. Therefore the users do not own THE VALUE that they produce.
Lemmy is a decommodified Reddit. There’s no profit motive. The network does not have Value, as it is not being exchanged. It has a Use-Value, in that it is useful, but nothing is being taken from workers as nothing is exchanged.
Please read Capital, Chapter 1 of Volume 1 makes this extremely cut and dry.
Let me ask you something. Is there anything preventing Lemmy devs from selling the code and going private like a gazillion FOSS projects have?
They could, but the code could also be forked and remain free. Does the fact that Capitalism could exist in the future mean it presently does?
So you think Communism = Non Profit. Please read Capital Vol 1-3 by Karl Marx and not screeds by Lenin.
No, I don’t, but I certainly don’t think non-profit = Capitalism like you’ve asserted.
Man, mad respect for engaging and calmly responding to a guy like that.