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.
What part of that was bad-faith?
Some folk identify the .ml (or the pronouns of hexbear users) and work backwards from there.
Simply: the bad faith was having .ml there in the name. I’ll take him for his word and bet that’s what was meant.
*edit And it isn’t like I haven’t seen wingnuts go “.world eh? More like .nazi!” as well. It is just that whole general vibe with the people who all up and comment about blocking shit.
Unfortunate, but probably correct.
I’ve had enough bad faith interactions with lemmy.ml accounts that it’s become helpful to expect it from them.
Sure there are some actual people over there who are willing to engage in a fair way, but its not worth rolling the dice.
You poor helpless baby