Awoo

Awoo, 8 months ago

This user is completely making shit up about Hexbear.

hexbear.net/post/451217?scrollToComments=false

Awoo, 8 months ago

I’ve been having a number of conversations on Hexchan recently trying to make sense of their politics.

No you have not. There is absolutely no pro-Trump sentiment among Hexbear users. You are full of shit.

hexbear.net/post/451217?scrollToComments=false

Awoo, 9 months ago

Source: Trust me bro.

Awoo, 9 months ago

Imperialism does not mean “of empire”. It is an economic system, the highest stage of capitalism.

Awoo, 10 months ago

In the 3 years Hexbear has been around it has been attacked A LOT because obviously far right chuds have an interest in messing with leftists but has not to my knowledge had an admin breach. At one point image embeds were completely disabled because they were handing over data they shouldn’t though and risked exposing people to doxxing.

Awoo, 11 months ago

So you would prefer massive dictators with a profit motive instead? Because that’s the alternative you are advocating for.

The entire point of federation as a tool of decentralisation is to address the issue of Spez, Musk, Zuckerberg and so on. Massive corporate dictators of the internet.

The solution is to split up the massive dictators into lots and lots of smaller ones, who can federate with who they want to in order to make a bigger space, and ultimately provide you with the choice of which approach you like better. It ultimatley allows all of these spaces to shut out corporate advertising as well because if McDonalds ever makes a fucking instance everyone will defederate that shit to get away from the advertising immediately.

If you like the mega dictators better. Reddit is over there. I assume you do not, because that’s why you left it.

Awoo, 11 months ago

I didn’t say or suggest a single thing you just said.

Of course you did. You said that the defederating thing turns you off the concept of Lemmy, and you advocated for it to be not-a-feature.

You are advocating for centralised mega platforms owned by mega dictators.

The are two options. Centralisation, or decentralisation. That’s it. There is no magic alternative. This is the material reality that exists.

If it turns you off Lemmy, then what you are advocating for is centralisation. The literal polar opposite of what the entire fediverse aims to be and exists to solve. There is not an alternative and there will not be. You either get one owner of a super site or thousands of owners of minisites that federate in order to be emulate a supersite without the oversight. That’s it. There is no third-way.

Awoo, 11 months ago

It is how you tag people but you need partially type the name and then wait for their names to be visible to select in the drop down, this drop down takes a moment to open as it's searching up the names @sexy_peach @gary_host_laptop

Awoo, 11 months ago

This is extremely well written. Anyone that supports and wants to see this platform thrive should share this in response to the people spreading nonsense with the goal of seeing it fail and upholding the corporate status quo.

Awoo, 11 months ago

OH BOY VOAT

Yeah. Free speech absolutism does not attract a good crowd, and once you attract that crowd you will not attract any other crowd because the content output they produce is repellant to any normal person.

Awoo, 11 months ago

@dessalines @nutomic this is a good idea for the users over there to share

Awoo, 11 months ago

You're going to learn very quickly that the anti-corporate world of fediverse despises nfts, ai, crypto, and everything aligned with the silicon valley techbro-brained idiots that have taken over the existing mainstream internet. It's going to highlight to you what a bubble reddit is for one specific opinion on most topics.

Awoo, 11 months ago

If IP address sharing via hotlinked images, embedded content, etc were breaking GDPR I think the entire internet is breaking it. If I visit a blog, and then click an embedded video or image on that page, then my IP has been shared to someone else while visiting that page. This occurs on the vast majority of the internet.

EDIT: It wouldn't just be EU-hosted lemmy instances either. GDPR applies to servers outside of EU jurisdiction whenever they're serving residents of the EU.

Awoo, 11 months ago

I wonder if this came about because of internal conflict in the mod team. I've received zero threats from reddit to reopen and mod some subs that are larger than antiwork.

Awoo, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

nuance

But maybe reply, discuss your position

I'm going to take this point in good faith, even though I disagree with it. The people that scream "tankie" often use the word in exactly the same meaningless way that the people who scream "woke" do, then they claim it has a specific meaning but clearly apply it very very broadly to basically anyone who is a marxist and waves a red flag.

But, since you suggest you're willing to get into nuance. I'm going to throw reel off a few groups, people and countries. Would you mind telling me which ones you consider tankie and evil, vs which ones you consider good?

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The Black Panthers

Fred Hampton

Huey Newton

Albert Einstein

Nelson Mandela

Che Guevara

Fidel Castro

Thomas Sankara

Chavez

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Cuba

Venezuela

Bolivia

Vietnam

Laos

Nepal

Nicaragua

Angola

Kerala district of India (governed by the Communist Party of India)

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It's ok to not know one way or another too btw, I'm just interested in a "tankie" "not tankie" "never heard of them" response on each of them.

Awoo, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

The shouting came before the self identifying.

Saying tankie is tongue-in-cheek, or simply to upset the people that scream it constantly. I'm a marxist-leninist, formerly an anarchist. I would still be an anarchist if climate change weren't putting a time limit on the need to get something done too. I decided that I could not sit by knowing hundreds of millions of people were going to die in 30 years (closer now tbh but it was a few years ago that I moved to a leninist toolkit now) while also knowing that anarchism was not equipped to generate the needed revolutions required to save any of those lives. Marxism-leninism and dem-cent parties on the other hand have a proven track record of creating revolution within that kind of timeframe.

I will probably return to anarchism when such timelimits are not in effect. It's just not morally justifiable for me to sit around using a toolkit that's not equipped for the time limit when we know what we know.

Awoo, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

What's your opinion of Nelson Mandela? The man wrote a book(although a revision of another book) called "How to be a good communist" and the very first line of that book is:

A Communist is a member of the Communist Party who understands and accepts the theory and practice of Marxism-Leninism as explained by Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin , and who subjects himself to the discipline of the Party. (See notes 1, 2, 3 & 4)

Awoo, 11 months ago

God this is so boring mate. It didn't. Nobody likes Russia. Russia is a capitalist shit hole. The only takes that the left has which is used to claim we support Russia is that the war was caused by nato and that pouring weapons into does nothing to save any lives, on the contrary it just enriches the billionaires to the military industrial complex and vastly increases the number of deaths on both sides.

China on the other hand we have some nuanced takes on but because you all know absolutely nothing about it and behave like they're animals incapable of independent thought and self-governance discussing anything with you ends up a case of bashing our heads against a wall because you don't have real conversations about it. You don't listen and don't learn anything. You don't even say the name of the party correctly (it's cpc not ccp). If I told you 95% of Chinese citizens are happy with and support their government you'd claim I'm wrong and when I provide evidence for that you'd claim it's only because of propaganda/information control and when I provide evidence that it's not because of that you'd find some new deflection or topic to divert to. So what's the point?

On the offchance you actually want that nuanced discussion we can have it but you need to start behaving more academic and stop talking like a terminally online reddit teenager. Come on.

Awoo, 11 months ago

Why say "discuss your position" and then not actually engage in any discussion with people that take you up on that?

Awoo, 11 months ago

That seems like a complete deflection, it has nothing to do with my prior comment? Do you or do you not consider Nelson Mandela, a man who honored and revered Stalin, to be an evil tankie?

Since you're intent on switching this to be about China, here are his views on China: https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d414f3063444f78457a6333566d54/share_p.html

What I'm trying to get at here is that this whole "muh ebil tankies" shit is, fundamentally, something you would have been saying to GOOD PEOPLE historically, if you were alive at the time of Mandela's struggles you would have been among the crowd screaming COMMIE and PINKO and demanding his head.

This is the crowd you are putting yourself in with this all or nothing behaviour towards those of us in the marxist left.

Step away from the "tankies are evil" behaviour and talk to us. You'll find things to be significantly more complex than the cartoon caricature that this word creates.

Awoo, 11 months ago

https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/34b5b611-e3cf-4dec-8102-178e855a6a62.png

Awoo, 11 months ago

One of your issues is probably sorting by Active instead of sorting by Hot. A major difference in the experience on Lemmy is the "Active" sort method being the default.

Awoo, 11 months ago

Everything you have seen happen recently is in service to the upcoming IPO.

Expect a similarly sized drama explosion when they take huge action against the porn on the site.

Awoo, 11 months ago

As someone that mods on multiple 1m+ subreddits, this is not viable across hundreds of subreddits with tens of active mods per subreddit.

And it's not viable with the userbases either, many of them would go full scorched earth rebellion against the site. Reddit is trying to calm things rather than turn it into a massive thing.

If large quantities of users decide to wreck the site with spam posts there is very little that admins can do. Committed users hell bent on trashing reddit can do so in greater numbers than can be responded to. This occurred when /r/FatPeopleHate got banned (a sub that thoroughly deserved it but hey ho) when a lot of the site went into a rebellion against Ellen Pao. They remember this, and do not want to repeat it.

Awoo, 11 months ago

Can you define tankie for me? The definition seems to change every time I talk to someone saying it. Right now all you know about me is that I read Lenin? Is reading Lenin supposed to be a bad thing?