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[–] 8 points 8 months ago (18 children)

I have seen some absolutely idiotic "socialist" takes on Lemmy (usually just dumb ass takes based on false premises like "food is free in nature, why isn't it free now?") but yeah the amount of complaining about "tankies" is like 10x the amount of actual "tankie" content I see. Really just blocking lemmy.ml takes care of 99% of the issue if you really hate seeing it.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    The argument "food is free in nature and should therefore be free" isn't a good argument. There is however one to be made for "with the level of technological advancement we've achieved at present, food shouldn't be as inaccessible as it currently is"

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Right, but I have seen massive arguments on Lemmy over this topic. The argument you made is actually well thought out and makes sense, while the one I mentioned is stupid and doesn't withstand even the smallest amount of basic thought.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago*

    but yeah the amount of complaining about β€œtankies” is like 10x the amount of actual β€œtankie” content I see

    Any time .ml users get wind of a thread they can bootlick in, they tend to swarm it. Hell, here's one from a user in this very comment section just a few days ago, on a major comm:

    And I mean, fuck, man, .ml's memes comm, which is still one of the larger comms on the Fediverse, hardly goes a day without boot-throating tankie shite.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    my only worry about is that if they are the main developers, what if they start abusing that position?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    My main question is: what makes you think they aren't already doing that?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (8 children)

    I havent seen any evidence or mentions of it

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I have seen post after post on Meanwhile on Grad about Dessalines abusing his power, you probably aren't aware of it because by the time you see it all you end up seeing are users like Cowbee monologuing to the void.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    ffs, why cant there be anything nice in this world.. everything has to have some downside or looming problem. How can i even recommend lemmy to people if there is a problem of " yea, its main developers are crazy tankies, but maybe its going to be okay?"

    Though by now i hope there are enough interested developers in lemmy in general that hopefully it can be branched if things get too bad.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Just recommend piefed to them.

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