On February 25, 1981, the day known as “Black Wednesday” at the company, Scott personally fired forty Apple employees, including half of the Apple II team, in a belief that they were redundant. Later in the afternoon he assembled the remaining employees with a keg of beer and explained the firings by stating, “I used to say that when being CEO at Apple wasn’t fun anymore, I’d quit. But now I’ve changed my mind — when it isn’t fun any more, I’ll fire people until it’s fun again.”
Mandatory promotion to !dundermifflin, also, do you think it should be moved to another instance? I am never really sure if the fact that it’s on lemmy.ml is an issue to people potentially interested as I guess they may have blocked the instance
The Lemmy devs are the admins of Lemmy.ml. They’re communists that treat Lemmy.ml as their personal fiefdom (which by design it is) where only opinions they endorse are allowed. They supersede community mods to do this. I’ve had comments calling out Hamas and Iran labeled as “hate speech” because in .ml world nobody aligned against the west can do anything wrong. I have no problem with anyone being a communist, but I draw the line at people that glorify/make excuses for authoritarianism.
FWIW as a lemmy.ml user I haven’t seen any of these issues. Many people lump lemmygrad.ml in with lemmy.ml; the devs have previously stated that they take a hands-off approach and allow pretty much everything in the latter, while enforcing Tankie-dom in the former. That’s apparently the reason why lemmygrad was made in the first place. The devs are crazy, not stupid, and understood that having the (former) main instance be a bunch of Stalin memes would hurt adoption.
That being said, I probably wouldn’t re-create my account here if I had to. Potential for Soviet apologia just isn’t worth it. Plus, there’s so many new awesome communities now!
No joke, this comment was deleted by as hate speech, you can check the modlog:
Hamas is a problem too and funded through Iran so I think they’d still be an issue even without the settler bs
This is just one example, I’ve had other (imo) pedestrian comments deleted. I’m a bigot for pointing out the objective reality that Iran financially supports Hamas? I guess it’s cool that Hamas murdered thousands of people? I’m convinced they want Lemmy.ml to be their instance to nudge people to towards their politics subtly. It’s not a healthy dynamic for a server, imo. No shade your way, plenty of normal people on .ml.
Completely agree, that’s a fair take. I just feel like, assuming that was their intent, it quickly became impossible after the exponential explosion of the userbase six months ago. Also, I don’t feel like many internet leftists are super susceptible to Stalinism, seems more like a diversionary receptacle for discontented liberals and fascists imo. Guess we’ll see if I get shadowbanned, lol.
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