I love that Lemmy thinks neoliberalism is “socialism”
Memers of the world unite!
It hasn’t really been my experience here. Yeah there is some.
Have you tried being less aimless at what you subscribe here? Do you come here because you want to connect with information, or just mindlessly doom scroll and consume?
If you’re not intentional about your social media tools, you will have a bad time.
Lemmy.world is defederated from the major Marxist instances, so that filters out a lot of discussion about Socialism.
you know I do wonder if, out there, all those right-wing instances that we’re de-federated with are sharing this same meme but in reverse…
You’d have to find it between all the child porn
There are right wing Lemmy instances? Wild… And by the sound of it, Gross.
Exploding Heads is a literal Nazi instance, defederated by pretty much everyone.
No, conservatives aren’t that technologically literate. They just keep using big tech shit.
big tech needs to sell a product so its not surprising some of the people reddit has booted made a lemmu instance
Is there an article about this defederation with the people who we likely should be engaging in discourse?
Left-wing instances were defederated preemptively, as a last resort because the admins feared they would “dismantle western propaganda”. Right-wing instances were defederated after they wouldn’t moderate their users posting CSAM, gore, and nazi shit.
preemptively, as a last resort
Getting some real George Bush Jr invading Iraq energy off this phrasing.
Right-wing instances were defederated after they wouldn’t moderate their users posting CSAM, gore, and nazi shit.
seems like it would have been more productive to infiltrate and doxx than just to look away.
They aren’t always defederated. Most users can still use conservative@lemm.ee, but most don’t bother because absolutely nothing ever gets through to the conservative users of that community no matter what sources or evidence to support arguments are used. It’s like talking to a brick wall. Some of the users like MomoTimetoDie are outright hostile.
then we should ‘deal’ with them
True, gets a bit tiring when you come to relax with some memes and people are preaching about politics.
You don’t need to sell it to me, I already love it.
If it was regular ol’ socialism around here, that’s one thing, but quite a bit of lemmy is straight Marxism. Don’t let them blur the lines, please.
Yay socialism!
Boo Marxism!
Though half of it is complaining about capitalism.
at the end of the day, it’s all complaining and no action. i get so tired of hearing children whine and doing nothing about anything.
The Socialist instances regularly advocate that Leftists join an org like PSL or FRSO.
that seems about as useless as bitching online about it.
the system grinds down opposition. change from within is near impossible.
It isn’t from within, those are revolutionary orgs.
You’re right they shouldn’t even try and they should also feel bad for not trying. Let’s all be sad defeatists… Lol jk no thanks dude
Half socialism, half complaining about capitalism, half linux, and half startrek memes.
Although, now that I think about it, the linux and startrek halves are often just a part of the socialism half.
So, I guess the original point stands. Socialism all the way down.
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lemmy also have shit tons of left wing nut jobs, lets not leave them out.
Socialism is left, right?
…and hexbear
damn,i didnt know they existed…i hope it’s not an echo chamber and having overly sensitive mods getting offend at everything.
Boy do I have some news for you…
My own research has led me to believe it’s just a bunch of edgy 14 year olds, because I don’t know who else could stand all the gif spam in the comments.
Kremlin shills and the LLMs they manage.
omg…the edgelords there makes razorblades look blunt by comparison…
puts down atheism pamphlet
…later, we will find you and tell you god isn’t real.
Did you ask?
It never mattered. We were going to tell you anyway.
And linux!
I mean, Linux (and the entire ecosystem) is a fundamentally socialist concept.
angry spitting libertarian noises
I would say GNU is one that’s openly socialist. If Linux’s (or rather, Linus Torvald’s) philosophy is socialist, they either do a very good job of hiding the fact or there is a lot I don’t know about them.
Unpopular opinion: “Open Source”, spawned from Netscape spinning off Mozilla, laid out in definition by the OSI organization, and advocated for by AnCaps like Eric S. Raymond, was always fundamentally capitalist. Devs spending a lot of free time doing free work for companies was not an accident. Capitalists borrowing ideas from the left and twisting them for their own uses is not new, either.
Free Software is more rooted in communism. You’re doing this to help your community. RMS might have always denied it–probably because it wasn’t a good idea to advocate that way during the Cold War and after–but it’s a better philosophical fit.
It’s past time to divorce the two.
That doesn’t make him a socialist. He doesn’t espouse any of the core socialist beliefs there. He’s just saying he’s a “woke communist” (as described by the right), which could mean anything from a centre-left liberal to a Marxist.
I’d never seen that, thanks for sharing it!
Wasn’t Torvalds’ dad member of communist party?
Maybe so, but children don’t always adopt the ideology of their parents. They usually do, but not always.
Yes, and was a member of the EU parliament until recently. Both his parents were pretty radical. Linus tends to keep his politics private for the most part.
And my axe!
And my sword!
My partner has been insinuating that I’m a communist recently. I don’t think I’m a communist, I simply want to seize the means of production for the people.
It’s part of the plan. To get people to accept a perspective before learning from where one has to stand to have such a perspective.
Something that can’t be denied is that there are bad actors in America who actively want the downfall of America. These groups look to the future and determine what will harm America in critical aspects. These groups (sometimes actively funded by other nations) arent actively seeking uprising or revolt this year, or next year, but maybe by the end of the decade, or maybe the next decade.
These malevolent forces at work arent readily apparent. One of these goals is division. “Divide and conquer.” I don’t believe it’s completely by accident that politics are so divisive right now.
I’m not that old, but I remember a time when people wouldn’t generalize and stereotype each other based on political leanings.
We again need to prioritize love for each other over political standings.
Don’t forget to seize the means of computation to stop enshittification.
Doesn’t that make you a communist?
You sound just like my partner.
Oh, really?!! But… how about posts about …socialism?!!
good. kind of like an anti twitter.
The socialists must flee what was formerly known as Twitter, now under the control of a totalitarian fascist regime ruled by a mad dictator, or face extermination, and are now refugees wherever they ended up on the Internet
it’s also currently known as twitter. even the madman calls it twitter and says tweet and shit. he’s so fucking dumb.
It’s currently known as shitter. Spelled xitter.
You are gonna love Mastodon
NZ? I hope I could go someday.
Didn’t he go to jail for sex crimes?
Where are the posts about anarchism?
dbzer0 has a bunch, same with Hexbear.
Hexbear is a tankie instance
Edit: being anti-sectarian is not an excuse Edit 2: Because tankies are not socialists
Hexbear is anti-sectarian, it has Marxist-Leninists and Anarchists alike.
Why would anarchists associate with tankies? I don’t wanna share any space with authoritarians of any kind
It is certainly not without historical precedent. Anarchists were quite heavily involved with the Russian revolution for example, although many historical-revisionist marxist-leninists would prefer to downplay that.
MLs don’t downplay the participation of Anarchists in the Russian Revolution, at least not from what I have seen.
I appreciate that you don’t, I even have you tagged as “a polite marxist” so I must have had a positive interaction with you before, but many MLs I’ve debated before have downplayed anarchist contributions to the Russian revolution. I can understand how you might not encounter that very often since you’re not putting yourself out there as an anarchist.
Historically it has never worked out very well for the anarchists, so I would hope that they have learned their lesson by now
Point taken, but although it may not have ended well for the anarchists I believe their involvement in the Russian revolution was for the better since it could easily have gone in a much worse direction without them. Anarchists are always putting themselves in harm’s way to make this world a better place.
Ask the Anarchists on Hexbear why they’re fine with Marxists.
In my experience, Hexbear is a much less toxic instance due to the anti-sectarian rules. Someone described it as “less like a Communist Party and more like the bar Communists hang out at after the meeting,” which is both cute and accurate. It’s a nice atmosphere if you aren’t a liberal.
It’s a nice atmosphere if you aren’t a liberal.
Doesn’t sound like it would have a nice atmosphere for socialists or anarchists either
Edit: Also that place allows coordinated attacks against non-tankies, and the most troubling users from blåhaj ran to that place, so I’m not super impressed.
Doesn’t sound like it would have a nice atmosphere for socialists or anarchists either
Like I said, you can ask the anarchists and socialists there yourself. I’m a Marxist-Leninist, it’s a nice atmosphere, and I get along with the Anarchists there as well.
Edit: Also that place allows coordinated attacks against non-tankies, and the most troubling users from blåhaj ran to that place, so I’m not super impressed.
Mind explaining what you mean by “coordinated attacks?” And what do you mean by “troubling users from blåhaj?” People leaving one instance for Hexbear isn’t necessarily indicative of Hexbear being bad.
- ∞🏳️⚧️Edie [it/its, she/her, fae/faer, love/loves, ze/hir, des/pair, null/void, none/use name, kitty]@lemmy.ml3·2 hours ago
I have no idea what you are talking about, Hexbear is clearly a furry instance. It’s in the name!
Also in the solarpunk instance :)
Thanks for mentioning that! 🖤