Being a communist is fine, it's the simping for authoritarian regimes that are communists-in-name-only (CINO) and genocide denying

I'd bet a whole paycheck that if Russia was aligned with Israel instead of the US they'd be defending the Palestinian genocide instead

Really rooting for Piefed because of this

Fucking commie is fine. Genocide denier, not so much.

Authoritarian bootlickers are not real communists.

True communists give the power to the people, not a dictator.

i wonder were they ever on reddit? any of these people and got banned from them and decided to make thier own platform.

A couple of issues, on Lemmy "block" isn't block it's barely a mute. The only way to get a true block, is to be site banned by an instance. This is likely the way dessalines wants it, because it's quite ridiculous.

And it doesn't help retain new users who might not be clued in on needing to "block" them. Scaring away new users. It will only get worse, if everyone "in the know" block them, then who will be left to downvote and show resistance to their "viewpoints"?

And it still allows misinformation "articles" to spread and fester via the network, causing harm. To users, to the rep of the Threadiverse and its growth.

The only real answer is as wide a defederation as the rest of the triad is treated

Not all of us. But yes. And?

Being the developer of a software is one thing. Software is basically a tool. Good or bad is in the use of it. In application his use is bad. But plenty of us see the likely writing in the wall and are making moves accordingly as well.

Having observed some different types of team dynamics in my day, I feel like Nutomic is clearly the one who does most of the dev work and Dessalines the one who makes most of the noise and pisses people off. It’s a fairly common dynamic.

I don't really want to use any software when the administrators/developers of this software do not recognize the genocide of my people (or other peoples) and speak similar tankie nonsense. Lemmy is not very popular as it is, and I don't think it will become more popular if the administrators/developers are... like this. The good thing is that it's open source, and there are alternatives.

To paraphrase, NWA said “fuck the police” when they meant “I’m profoundly disappointed in the police for their barbarism and abject bigotry.” Do I think the police are a net positive to society? Yes. Do I wish they’d stop being power tripping pricks with clear sociopolitical biases that serve as a detriment to everyone in contact with them? also yes.

Come to piefed. Then you won't have the moral conundrum.

Code is code, open source is open source.

Lemmy is coded to be a link aggregator type social media, there's nothing inherently political about it.

It's the fact that they use their supposed "test instance" and their influence as the Lemmy developers to spread their "message" because they know that it's going to be difficult for other instance admins to defederate from the "Dev instance" that's the problem.

And indeed that's pretty much what's playing out, most instances defederate from the first 2 of the triad fairly easily, but when it comes to the .ml instance admins are hesitant. Even though .ml allows much of the same crap, just "tempered" under the surface.

I ditched lemmy and went to piefed exactly for this asshole (dessalines).

Also I don't get why some people defend said asshole while there have been tons of threads roasting in unison software like Brave or Hyprland or IDK what else for their dev being transphobic or racist or whatever. I'm not a fan of either of those, but it just doesn't make sense to me.

The software is open source and free. As long as it remains so, whoever is developing it is of little consequence.