Why do they consider racism, orientalism and lies disputed long ago "valid criticism". Not even mentioning the lack of humility or a will to learn, just constant snarkiness, smugness and an unrelenting feeling of superiority. Just please, engage with us on equal terms and don't be dismissive.
Edit: Don't go into the comments if you value your day...
Yup, seen that thread. I reported some users calling Russians "orcs" and i was actually chastised in PM by mod who apparently think it is normal exchange of political opinions.
EDIT: And while the dehumanisation, bigotry, racism, orientalism etc. etc. comments still stands, this happens:
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The problem is mostly 196.
Also some instances like lemmy.world seem to just approve anybody who's making a request to join. So all the idiots go there and then spread to other instances.
BuGiJu was doing a great job of contributing constructively from what I remember. Absolute bullshit on the mods' part. StalinsMoustache was correct but a bit low-effort and antagonistic, so it was to be expected (though I obviously don't support it).
At least it was only two days for the former, but still bullshit
They are also doubling down:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/729033
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/728499
Afaik that particular mod begged himself into modding today and immediately start banning ML's, exactly what ultras always do on reddit.
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/726337
I never understood why people thought this would be a good thing. Growth for the sake of growth is meaningless. The best way to grow the community is by attracting sane people who are capable of having adult discussions. Focusing on a number of users is misguided. What really matters is sustainability. The only things that actually matter are having enough users to create content, having sustainable development resources, and enough funds for hosting the community.
Having a bunch of radlibs swarm Lemmy doesn't really add any actual value, and creates no end of problems. Thankfully, we can at least mitigate the damage thanks to federation.
I agree.
Alas the logic of capitalism is like a poisonous fog, seeping into every room.
on the contrary, Lemmygrad is a great place to criticize the CPC if you have actual informed criticism, whereas most instances won't allow that since genuine criticism requires acknowledging the many positive aspects of China's leadership
Literally saw someone in that Beehaw thread talking about "we're a safe space for minorities" and shit complaining that they'd posted up a picture of Winnie the Pooh somewhere and got banned for it. They're literally just western-chauvinist redditors looking for somewhere to piss all over and call theirs.
A lot of the xinnie the pooh edits are racial caricature, ironically enough (skin tone)
That's hard to say, since the meme began in China, but the widespread adoption in the US probably was connected to racist appeal
Unfortunately yeah, undoubtly by some liberal or even likely westerner living there since except yellow Xi it also included Obama as "Tigger" (how subtle):
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Yo as per our survey, more than 60% of our users don't identify as white, cis het males. Additionally we have users from literally over the world. Waiting to see Beehaw's survey.
People like those in the comments are why I worry about my students from the PRC who want to study in the imperial core.
I had a few classmates from the PRC when I was in college. At the time I criticized them and thought they were weird for only keeping to themselves and not wanting to socialize with people outside their group. Now I think I know why they were like that, and i don’t blame them.
Its a fucking nightmare over there. Left reddit because of this shit sad to see the other instances turning into reddit.
I just joined here a couple days before the Reddit thing happened. They're bringing all of what I didn't miss from quitting Reddit years ago. At least on the bright side I can mostly stay out of all that here.
It was always going to end with those losers setting up shop. But hey it's great to see that MLs are making great strides in geopolitics for humanity, and all the bootlickers from reddit can do is troll on lemmy.
They genuinely think flooding lemmy is going to help stop the multipolar world. Think about that for a second - how stupid you have to be and how desperate you have to be to resort to that. So framed in this way, we know that they will go the way of history and that progress marches on, ignoring their tears.
I think it's very telling that once they run out of talking points, they resort to throwing a tantrum, swearing at you and demanding to be banned like it's a victory.
