It is my pleasure to announce that effective immediately, we are transferring our community to Lemmy.world! This has been a few months in the making, so my entire mod team is already on board.
FAQ:
Why?
That's a complicated question with a long answer! The primary difference is moderatorial and ideologial differences between my team and Ada's excellent team of admins. We are on good terms with Ada and her team, and have gotten her consent to do this. In addition to this, the fact that a large portion of instances do not federate with 196 has caused our reach to be reduced, with many communities creating their own 196es.
How does this work?
Currently, as there is not an easy way to transfer an entire community (trust me, we checked), we are locking the community as mod-only, and moving our focus to the 196 on lemmy.world. For you guys, functionally nothing has changed.
What about the posts?
Well, we tried to transfer them, but there was no real way to do so without absolutely destroying lemmy.world's federation. For this reason, we are simply archiving this community as mod-only. Everything is staying up, you just won't be able to post new content. Comments are still enabled, so we will continue to check our modlogs for some time after the transfer has settled.
As for the posts on lemmy.world's 196, we're leaving those up too. From this point onwards, all posts made to that community are beholden to the rules you are all used to, but anything pre-existing is getting grandfathered in.
IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, PLEASE PUT THEM IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST, AND I'LL DO MY BEST TO ANSWER THEM.
Once again, here's the link to our new apartment of awesome. (universal: !196@lemmy.world)
lol their banner says "and fuck tankies"
i am glad i am not so terminally online that the scariest thing in the world to me is people who think china is swell or whatever
That's 196 alright. I used to lurk on the community on reddit, but after becoming a marxist and seeing how they are just anticommunist I stopped bothering with it lol
I can't imagine forming a worldview that requires you to both know the word tankie and hate them
my ex started going through a "grrr tankies r the worst thing ever" phase a bit before we broke up. they were basically so terminally online they had no understanding of what people were actually like. so they thought communists genuinely wanted to like... do fascism. they just thought commies were fascists, because ????? i think it was a vibes based thing bc muh authoritarianism.
idk they were also abusive so i dont try to figure out their thoughts that much even tho i rly want to pick apart that bit specifically cos i dont really get it either
It involves knowing the word "Tankie" but also knowing nothing about communism, socialism, tankies, geopolitics, capitalism, liberalism, fascism, reality etc. It's just a pure vibes based existence where you have an evil enemy to hate who only likes bad things for no reason or benefit to themselves.
They love the aesthetics of intellectualism, but also hate to read history, study present geopolitics, or even listen to people from other non-Western countries.
I see it all the time with folks who use grandiose language to seem highly intellectual, as they are under the delusion that being more verbose constitutes greater intellect. A truly perplexing state of affairs.
/s You don't understand, its neither Washington nor Beijing, but Beijing is far worse and is imperialist!!!1!1!!