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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):

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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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 112 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I had my first ever comment, in decades of forums/reddit usage, get mod deleted because I was critical of China and the USSR. It was a fairly mild criticism. That action turned me off the whole instance.

[–] realitista@lemm.ee 30 points 6 months ago

Sad that you chose an .ml community to come back to. You can't talk about Russia or China at all without getting deleted there, unless it's saying that Tienamen Square never happened or something like that.

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They learn from who they are worshipping. Exactly how the CCP control the narratives.

[–] fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

They learn from who ~~they are worshipping~~ pays them and might disappear them if they say the wrong thing.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Same here, but they tried to claim I called a Steam Deck a "Rice Burner" as a racist insult when I randomly chose "rice" as the title for this meme to fill the mandatory title block.

Like, bro? Even if that was my intent, which it wasn't even a term I had ever seen applied to a computer, it doesn't make sense.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 16 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I looked at your downvotes because I see you at -2... Wear this like a badge of honor!

Most of the downvotes I see are lemmy.ml users. Which I find funny. Rice exists in so many countries outside of china, but because it reminds them of China it's instantly bad since you're using is negatively. It's absurd.

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

LMAO!! Thank you! I've got them blocked but the fact they're even voting me down is silly. It wasn't even an insult because if I was even mentioning "ricing" it was the better of two options.

[–] randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

wow, you can see who up/downvoted a post? how do I do that?

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Host your own lemmy instance. Or use Kbin(shows up as likes).

For some reason they decided that even though other activitypub services can see it just fine, lemmy will not show these things to normal users.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 6 months ago

I thought it only showed Reduces from Kbin users? But then Kbin.social stopped showing any Reduces at all, and now Kbin.social is defunct for several days.

I tried Kbin.earth and Fedia.io but both show the Reduces as greyed out, at least for https://lemmy.world/comment/10490177 that I used as a test. I will try creating a login and see if that unlocks it.

[–] squid_slime@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Apparently its to do with a sport car scene where the Chinese couldn't afford such luxuries but still want to participate and westerners or Americans would call these vehicle mods ricing

Now with linux theming we call ricing and that carries a racist connotation. How racist it actually is I am unsure but either way thats the reason people get upset.