db0 admins have gone full McCarthyism

obligatoryI don’t know if this is the right community, if it isn’t warn me and I’ll move the post!

So I saw a meme about piracy on reddit (apparently a tankie HQ) and I wanted to share it on the biggest piracy instance on the fediverse, with good intentions I post, it gets some replies, but the funny thing is I can’t reply as the post has been removed by the admins of that instance.

I couldn’t care less, it’s just a low-quality meme, in fact I’m amused more than I’m sad. These libs are doing what the US state dept was doing during the cold war FOR FREE!

I hope you all can share my amusement at the fact that apparently all it takes nowadays to be called a tankie is to be against big tech and to post from a mainstream instance. You don’t even have to be a communist, it’s full paranoia on their part at this point.

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/6f4f714a-ae44-4883-bc17-6287f0e9919f.webp

The meme in question, nothing “tankie” about it as far as I can tell.

Edit: btw the community about censorship on lemmy has been… Eliminated

Rasm635u,
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Also unrelated but the cat in your profile picture is pretty

frippa, (edited )
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Thx, as a reward here’s some other random unsolicited pictures of my cats, to unsubscribe from random pictures of my cats text “STOP”

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3dd2c7d9-1ce0-4965-8849-8664da710099.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/3d69471b-f96c-4144-9563-13df31e92fb7.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/928cc770-d7dc-4fd4-85b3-246272e2a842.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/38b265d7-0d8d-4fd1-b69c-6bab611f338d.jpeg

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c363a8e6-1b5a-4a94-af34-33dd538775de.jpeg

The black one is the older and is named frippa, my username comes from her

My favorite is remì though, the tabby one

We had an older one called micia (slang for female cat in Italian) but she sadly passed away in February, stopped eating and even the vet couldn’t figure out what was wrong (we had to took her because her previous owner had passed away) she probably wasn’t able to manage the shock, she was old (about 13)

Rasm635u,
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What’s db0?

frippa,
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A lemmy instance focused around piracy and other tech stuff, some of their users are pretty good and some of them are even comrades but the mods/admins are, sadly, insufferable radlibs

DamarcusArt,

Wonder how long before this “piracy” instance starts talking about copyright law and how important IP protection is.

Though I expect we’ll see a lot, lot more of this from libs going forward, we’re in a new age of McCarthyism and anything they don’t like will be called “tankie propaganda.”

vger,
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I mean, just posting from a lemmy.marxist-lennist account is tankie adjacent right there 🤭

frippa,
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Lol, you’re (probably) joking but at this point I’ve seen about a dozen people from liberal instances like .world equating lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. I mean we’re still leagues above the average reddit.world user but we are pretty heterogeneous.

MiraculousMM,
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I guarantee it’s because of the word “privileged”, what a bunch of absolute babies. A lot of db0 users are cool but their admins are so fuckin libertarian-brained. Hey jackasses, it’s not “tankie” to point out that if you spend a large amount of your time browsing an internet forum you are probably decently well off in life. Also the meme is making fun of people who are anti-piracy! Its on your side!!

frippa,
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Removing pro-piracy posts on the pro-piracy community to own the tankies

(insert hexbear brainworm emoji)

bumpusoot,

brainworms

I got you comrade

FuckyWucky,

Wow even a social Democrat could’ve posted that. Pathetic behavior.

Hexcat,

I tried to create a db0 account, noped out when their rules have no tankies.

Ram_The_Manparts,
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their rules have no tankies

How the fuck does that even make sense lol

aaaaaaadjsf,
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Someone that lives a comfortable life in a first world country got offended and removed the post, that’s all there is to it. There’s nothing “tankie” about the meme

crystalball,

you said “first world country” and their blood ran cold

crystalball,

@frippa also i hate eugene like you wouldn’t believe. i would imagine it stings their admins to see an unprincipled greedy nerd called out, deep down

frippa,
@frippa@lemmy.ml avatar

I bet Eugene has said “communism only works on paper” at least once

thefreepenguinalt,
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This is the House Un-Lemmy.Worldian Activities Committee. You have been accused of being a tankie. How do you plead?

frippa,
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I plead pipe bomb in my pants 😔

barrbaric,

Is that a pipe bomb in your pants or are you ju- explosion

Zuzak,

Do you now or have you ever had an account on a tankie instance?

Do you now or have you ever had an account on an instance federated with a tankie instance?

riseuppikmin,
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Have you ever read a post on a tankie instance?

Bartsbigbugbag,

Senator, I served my country in Singapore.

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