Is it bots? Are those humans whos mission is to cause chaos? Is the weird behaviour caused by the creation of the concept of lemmy?

Somebody please explain to me wtf is going on.

They answer destructive comments, assuming shit, demanding shit. Are they trolls?

Are they being paid for causing chaos? It’s insane

  • Eldritch@lemmy.world
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    Thankfully those of us on world have not had to deal with them for the better part of a year. There’s so much wrong there it’s kind of hard to know where to begin.

    All I will really say for now is that they are perfect anti advocates for the things at the surface level they advocate for.

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      You would think having a healthy discourse and talking to each other, exchanging ideas would be better to proliferate a certain ideology.

      All they do is try to insult or demand one is an all knowing being. Some read my comment and assume I’m from us and have to know every agency there is.

      If they want to bring their ideologies out there they should stop trying to be destructive. All they accomplish is a negative image of their movement.

      It’s like a 14 yo has learned about communism and is now super edgy towards everybody because he thinks he’s hacked the system.

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        They existed on their own Lemmy instance for years before federating at some point last year.
        So, they likely had their own way of interacting, commenting, moderating etc that worked for them, that they had used/built/developed themselves (I mean systems & rules, not software) for years.
        And they federated shortly after the Reddit API exodus.
        So an echo chamber of extreme left wing users suddenly getting to interact with a whole bunch of new people, and an inrush of more mainstream users. It made for an interesting 6 or so months.

        I haven’t had any bad interactions with them directly, however I have seen and disagreed with a lot of their behaviour.
        Not sure if I have their instance blocked, or if my instance has defederated them.

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        It’s like a 14 yo has learned about communism and is now super edgy towards everybody because he thinks he’s hacked the system.

        Yes. Exactly.

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        Certain authoritarian ideologies and well, ideologies in general. Depend on rejecting ideas and evidence. Ideologies are ideal, but not real. So it tends to devolve into shouting and name calling. Leninists hypocritically haranguing liberals and vice versa etc.

        I would definitely be down for some anarco communism. But I think it’s offensive to repeat the misnomer that ML is communism. Or ever has, ever will lead to communism. Anyone who looks to enact change through brutal, murderous suppression via a vanguard party. Could hardly exude a more juvenile thinking vibe. That “it’s okay/good when we do it” BS.

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          I learned something from your comment. Thank you.

          Explains a lot of things that happen rn. Gaza, Ukraine, harsh cut between right/left.

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          Weird how an ideology that depends on rejecting ideas and evidence keeps adapting to new evidence and contexts.

          I wonder why Cuban marxism is so different than Chinese marxism which is different from Soviet marxism, which is different from every south american country’s marxisms.

          One might even think they’re taking a Scientific approach to Socialism.

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            Interesting how in every case, they betray their anarchist allies as soon as they get even a feeble hold of state power. There must be a really good peer reviewed paper that conclusively suggests that must be done. Scientifically.

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        The thing is they see anything remotely right of them as equal to being a card carrying SS Nazi. They have no capacity to consider shades of gray, incremental progress, etc. It’s all or nothing, fuck you if you don’t abide.

        If you aren’t dogmatically against absolutely positively every single detail of life in the west, you aren’t good enough.

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        No server is. All of them are imperfect. However world is better than hex or grad. It is a simple fact. Regardless of whether you like it. Granted it is a low bar. Being heavily devoted to a heavily disproven ideology sort of puts you on the back foot to start with. But leninists have never let that stop them. But we absolutely do get a mix here on world since it isn’t an echo chamber. Leninists and fascists alike.

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          Being heavily devoted to a heavily disproven ideology

          China is the largest economy in the world and has brought nearly a billion people out of poverty. Within a single lifetime, the USSR went from peasant farmers experiencing regular famine to putting people in space. And then capitalism brought back famine in the 90s. Cuba has a longer life expectancy than America.

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      Thankfully those of us on world have not had to deal with them for the better part of a year.

      .world was never federated with hexbear, .world defederated “preemptively, as a last resort

      This perception is common on .world because some liberals have been lying about hexbear to encourage censoring the left even before then.

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          I’m not sure if the “this interpretation” reference is about the “preemptive defederation as a last resort” or the “lying” bit, but the first doesn’t need an interpretation because it was stated in the post:

          Defederation should only be considered as a last resort. However, based on their comments and behavior, no positive outcomes can be expected. We made the decision to preemptively defederate from Hexbear for these reasons.

          The “lying” bit… I’m not sure where that comes from. It’s not the best “informed rhetoric,” that’s for sure.

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            The most obvious lie being claiming that hexbear was federated with lemmy.world and were just so awful they had to be defederated.

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          If the opposition has inconvenient facts, just tell the audience opposition is an asshole you shouldn’t listen to.

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        Quoting your other comment:

        China is the largest economy in the world and has brought nearly a billion people out of poverty. Within a single lifetime, the USSR went from peasant farmers experiencing regular famine to putting people in space. And then capitalism brought back famine in the 90s. Cuba has a longer life expectancy than America.

        If it talks like a tankie and quacks like a tankie…

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        Hahahaha, many of us have had first hand experience of hex - they attack people for the littlest ring, insult, denigrate, etc.

        So stop your gaslighting.

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          What little thing are you being attacked for? The worst I’ve experienced was being called an atlanticist in a discussion on North Korean military preparedness.

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        I must have misremembered lemmygrad then. Same difference. I’ve encountered hexbears on other servers. It’s one of many reasons I don’t log into Midwest.social for instance. Well more that their hardware is overloaded. But federation with grad and hex is still a good reason.