Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342 [https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342] Dessalines AKA “parentis_shotgun” on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] and lemmygrad.ml [http://lemmygrad.ml]. Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed): https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/ [https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/] Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml [http://Lemmy.ml] tankie censorship problem: https://lemmy.world/post/16211417 [https://lemmy.world/post/16211417] And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances: https://lemmy.world/post/16235541 [https://lemmy.world/post/16235541] 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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie]
  • TheDoctor [they/them]
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    7 months ago

    I miss when the slur filter was hard coded so we’d get periodic hitler-detector posts about how the authoritarian tankies are ruining freeze-peach

    • PorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]
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      7 months ago

      When this site launched our slur filter even did substitutions. It would replace things like "Israel" with "Occupied Palestine" and "North Korea" with "Democratic People's Republic of Korea." We figured out that had to go as soon as somebody tried posting "Death to Israel."