Loukanikos (Greek: Λουκάνικος) aka "the sausage loukaniko", initially named "Theodor", was a Greek riot dog that participated in almost every anti-austerity protest in Greece. He was commonly known for joining protests, barking at police, helping in street battles with the Greek police as well as participating in anarchist rallies and picket lines. Loukanikos had a reputation of being fearless, usually being in front of the protests and having tear gas thrown at him multiple times. He was active throughout all Greek protests and often leading the protesters towards the police. Initially a stray, he moved from building to building, but was said to have preferred to be on the streets. He was groomed and cared for by multiple left-wing organizations. Loukanikos died in 2014 at the age of ten. This was due to health problems because of ingestion of tear gas, which he sustained due to constant protests. A memorial and large burial was held shortly after. Loukanikos was the subject of a large amount of monuments and murals in his honor.

Dogs hate fascists, it's just science. :doggo-matapacos: :comrade-doggo:

bonus libcom.org photo gallery of Loukanikos in action CW he is being kicked by a pig in one of them

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  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Yes I agree. One problem however is that as time goes on their changes to key underlying mechanics of the system will become harder. Instances angry at changes down the line will weaponise their userbase to apply pressure on development direction. An instance actively trying to participate in a large federation while suppressing the instances of the left (thus sending their liberal comments out into the federation while removing left and left-adjacent opposition from being able to see or respond to those comments) can do more damage to the left in that kind of ecosystem than a subreddit can on reddit.

    If their content is good other apolitical (lib) instances won't defederate with them, they'll just shrug at it, they won't care that much. While in other cases it won't even be noticed at all because the behaviour will be buried under months of modlog entries spread out over a huge amount of time.

    • ScreamoBM0 [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      Instances angry at changes down the line will weaponise their userbase to apply pressure on development direction.

      This was one of the most successful and detrimental attack vectors on Hexbear. However, I do have trust that nutomic and dessalines are good comrades with a solid theoretical basis for their actions, at least in intent. So I think they’ll be open to relevant arguments made from a theoretical perspective as needed, assuming there are those around to make those arguments respectfully and assertively.

      Eventually some more insular structure will need to form to keep their ability to develop and moderate intact. Maybe a UX researcher or someone to filter new issues would help. But until then, I am appreciative of their ability to do all the work they do and remain well-composed and productive.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        The reason I raise it is because the development of this problem will go like this:

        1. Early on instance might be able to stop this malicious behaviour by not being so fucking naive and demanding more respect to other instances users between instances in the federation. Like I mention in the linked thread with the federation council but in an unwritten code sort of way. Right now that's not happening though and wrecker instances are fucking around while a couple of liberal members of the lemmy.ml team are being blunderingly naive about the intentions and behaviour occurring.

        2. Assuming the wrecker stuff does get resolved early on because federated instances get their act together about this malicious behaviour. Growth happens things go reasonably fine for quite a while.

        3. A certain size threshold is reached where this approach of instance owners all knowing the history of Lemmy and being aware of its abuses starts to go away, keeping people up to speed on best practices to avoid wrecker stuff and political and ideological manipulation becomes impossible. Wrecker instances start to make a comeback and become a serious problem. Development realises that this isn't going to work out and something needs to be done with the mechanics or the vision of the project will be bad in a "oh god it was harder for leftists to be deplatformed on reddit" kind of way.

        4. Mechanics get changed. MASSIVE outrage is incited at the change by the wrecker instances. They successfully manage to make several other naive liberal non-political instances believe them and join in on their shit. Absolutely huge shitshow ensues that turns into some really nasty stuff with the demand that the mechanic be returned and that features that previously existed shouldn't be taken away. This becomes a real real problem at scale. Copycat projects spring up with dubious origins as an "alternative to lemmy", exoduses are incited.

        This is the pathway I see for this mechanic. I don't see it as good and I can't see it playing out another way without changes.