I despise the tankies, but imho, stopping them from having their own servers simply pushes them into .world etc. - let them have their safe space, defederated.
To be clear, I am talking mostly about defederation, but also about a development roadmap which removes them from the critical path. Mostly because I don’t trust them, but also because they make building an open source community that much more difficult. I have a bunch of accounts on various Lemmy instances but I’ve made piefed my home for now because it represents a path away from tankie adjacent development.
I wish I understood what the tankies are actually thinking. I just cant understand them. Even rightwing crazies seem more easy to understand. Are they just so extremist they repress any logical thought within themselves if it clashes with their views? Why do they idolize those horrible regimes? What is actually important to them?
They’re like holocaust deniers. They’re conspiracy theorists who think we’re being tricked into not knowing the truth by mainstream media (which… That’s a fair critique) and then “doing their own research” and reaching wild ass anti-vax-esque conclusions based on deciding to trust media outlets that are just as dangerous, if not moreso, than the ones they decided to tune out from.
Bah, don’t be a weiner. They sometimes have good points. Keyword is sometimes. It’d be a community disservice to remove their perspective from the mileau.
I mean any default experience which includes the ml trio is legitimately vile. The sooner Lemmy gets serious about the tankie problem, the better.
I despise the tankies, but imho, stopping them from having their own servers simply pushes them into .world etc. - let them have their safe space, defederated.
To be clear, I am talking mostly about defederation, but also about a development roadmap which removes them from the critical path. Mostly because I don’t trust them, but also because they make building an open source community that much more difficult. I have a bunch of accounts on various Lemmy instances but I’ve made piefed my home for now because it represents a path away from tankie adjacent development.
I wish I understood what the tankies are actually thinking. I just cant understand them. Even rightwing crazies seem more easy to understand. Are they just so extremist they repress any logical thought within themselves if it clashes with their views? Why do they idolize those horrible regimes? What is actually important to them?
They’re like holocaust deniers. They’re conspiracy theorists who think we’re being tricked into not knowing the truth by mainstream media (which… That’s a fair critique) and then “doing their own research” and reaching wild ass anti-vax-esque conclusions based on deciding to trust media outlets that are just as dangerous, if not moreso, than the ones they decided to tune out from.
so basically like different style rightwing crazies?
precisely
Bah, don’t be a weiner. They sometimes have good points. Keyword is sometimes. It’d be a community disservice to remove their perspective from the mileau.
“Lemmy” is just a bunch of protocols, what individuals use those protocols for should be irrelevant to the underlying protocols.