Edit - I said “site” because I didn’t know how to even describe whatever this is
Lemmy isn’t a site- it’s a piece of software.
The software is developed by communists and there are communist sites running lemmy. However the guys developing the software’s political opinions don’t affect the work itself. It’s open source also.
Yeah, but only the good kind.
I guess I’m the one only getting the bad apples
Well, you’ve only been here a day. Give it time.
It’s neither communist nor a site.
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All websites are inherently communist
How? Could you please explain that
Well websites are moneyless, classless, and stateless friend. We aren’t talking about rocket appliances here. Do you even definition?
What stuff are you even smoking?
As someone who has managed a website: This is utter bullshit.
A website is someones private property and the organization is purely hierarchical in nature. It goes owner > admin > moderator > user and each one has control over the others.
The components to host a site (a server, hard drives, etc.) cost money. The connection to the internet costs money. The physical location costs money to exist in.
That private property still lives in a physical location and must abide by local laws. The laws differ based on the physical location, but there are laws they must abide by, all the same.
When someone bans you, what options do you even realistically have other than getting your own private property and spinning up your own site? Usually arguing about a ban goes badly.
I want some of whatever you’re smoking. Websites are the complete opposite of open and community operated. Computers were never built for democracy.
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Average commie
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Damn! That’s literally the most cliche comment a liberal or a commie gives in the internet
I don’t think cliche means what you think it means
An action or a phrase which is overused or overdone in such a way that it doesn’t hold any meaning
Isn’t that the meaning?
That strikes me as humor but who knows.
There’s a lot of state sponsored propaganda from right wing, authoritarian countries that pay lip-service to popular communist ideas to keep the dictator in power.
A lot of the noise comes from just a few of the users, so for the moment its easy enough to just block them all.
Damn! I have started loving this place more 😂
It’s gonna be fun arguing with commies
Lemmy’s core development team are communists, of a very bizarre and inconsistent type that is openly or semi-openly in favor of massive command-economy-capitalist countries like China and Russia even when they are engaged in imperialist conduct. They’re weird. Idk what’s up with it. A lot of the core historical instances still have that mindset and are sometimes so obnoxious about demanding that everyone else needs to also that they are banned from the more recent more mainstream-thinking instances.
Generalizations are tough but I think it’s safe to say that 90% of everyone else on Lemmy is some variety of vague-leftist roughly in the mold of Bernie Sanders, which depending on your personal Overton window you may define anywhere from “disgusting liberal who betrayed the movement by voting for Kamala Harris” to “Communist.”
Hope this helps
The only sane reply in the comment section… thanks bro
You asked a ridiculous question, so 🤣yeah, play stupid games, win stupid prizes boss
Welcome to Lemmy, here are a few pointers to help you settle in
There’s a pinned post on the first community that can answer your question
Lemmy isn’t a site at all. It’s a piece of software.
Yes in the sense that mostly the communists inhabit it. No in the sense that, because it is decentralised, no one can force you do to a particular thing if you host your own instance
So in that way if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
I’m new here so I don’t know much about these
if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
Yes. You can always create a new account on a different instance.
Think of federated services (namely lemmy) like a phone carrier. There’s a bunch of them, and you can call numbers on other networks easily, as they speak a common protocol. You (or your carrier) can always block either individual numbers, or entire carries. The thing here is, being a carrier (an instance) of lemmy is somewhat easy to do, and you can always switch carriers based on their moderation policies.
Hope this is a decent explanation.
That’s a good explanation… Thanks for that
Also, tip, pretty sure that in the default web interface there is a toggle to deactivate bot posts. These bots are often just reposting what is on Reddit to try to stuff lemmy with content, but I tend to leave them deactivated. Also, never forget that the best thing after staying in a pit like this, is to touch a bit of grass ;P
Mostly just liberal/social democrat with a sizeable and vocal minority of socialists and communists.
Generally, the American vision of “left”, or European center and left.
I think the reason you dont understand many comments in this thread is because you dont seem to know what a “communist” it. People are answering your question based on the official definition, but you are going by a gut feeling that probably springs form propaganda and biases in your community. I encourage you to read up on communism if you really want to know.
If youre just here to pick fights with no knowledge to back up your claims, youre on the right track.You’ll need to be more specific I’m afraid. Lemmy isn’t a single site, but rather a bunch of sites all talking to one another in the same “language”.
Is your homeserver, lemm.ee communist? No clue. I do know lemmygrad.ml is. My homeserver, lemmy.sdf.org, leans from libertarian to liberal to marxist depending on the particular subject or user.
Each cat their own rat.
This is almost like asking if all social media sites are communist because reddit has a communism subreddit. (More accurate to say the question would be like asking if all phpbb are communist because theres a communist board or two out there, but idk if the general pop even knows what a php board is anymore)
A of its instances and users are. If u want an instance that isn’t as extreme left check out hilariouschaos.com. A bunch of lemmy users will call it a Nazi bar despite having none of such content.
Niether.
Lemmy is the frontman for Mötorhead.
