• chunes@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s news to me that we are supposed to select a server based on politics. join-lemmy.org gives suggestions based on any number of topics. For instance, technology and gaming.

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        2 days ago

        I see there is an old.lemmy.zip. I wouldn’t be able to live without that UI. It’s perfect

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      1 day ago

      You probably don’t want to be on a far left server like lemmy.ml if those aren’t your politics. If only for the risk of getting defederated, but it’s also a quick way to get banned by your own instance if you do participate in political threads.

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        Even if you do fall under “far left politics”, you’ll still be shit on for being the wrong kind of leftist.

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        I wouldn’t exactly call lemmy.ml a far left server. They’re more tankies, which is more defined by the philosophy of “America Bad, so their rivals must be Good”.

        As a US citizen, the country has a lot of problems (especially with the current administration) but Putin and Jinping are still authoritarian despots.

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          11 hours ago

          If marxism-leninism or maoism aren’t far left, what IS? The word “tankie” references the violent and imperialist oppression of opposition by communist countries like the USSR and PRC, and I don’t get the impression that lemmy.ml users don’t consider themselves this flavor of leftist. Or is this just a “no true scotsman” discussion?