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Another part is probably how Lemmy moderators are structurally cops, and All Cops Are Bastards.

Mods have a monopoly on the digital equivalent of violence (banning and deletion) and are expected and required to unilaterally use that monopoly to police the community. They have nearly unilateral discretion over how incidents are handled, and complaints are primarily taken care of through mods discussing internally.

Communities may elect their mods, but given communities are defined by those who are not banned by mods, mods can use their discretion to ban dissenters whenever they can get away with it while only banning supporters when they have to. Thus communities evolve into ones that (vocally or passively) support their mods as long as those mods aren't much more egregious than they have been so far. The vocal support then reinforces the mods' beliefs in their righteousness, justifying their strictness, until they are a police state.

Good mods get disgusted by this pipeline at some point during the process and stop being mods. Crappy mods speedrun the pipeline and become sad little kings of sad little hills. But insidious mods go through the pipeline slowly, creating an oasis of liberal stability where those that fit themselves within the mods' Overton Window can have a flourishing community (hi goat!).

And it's hard to organize servers any other way because by default with our current capitalism digital infrastructure, the admin is the owner and users are producer-consumers who have no tools to project political power beyond what the admin deigns to bestow on them. Because the users are given no way to organize politically they devolve into chaos, so the admin makes use of the tools they have and polices the users or imports the position of moderator so approved users can police the other users.

So over time, communities on the internet either collapse or have mods who grow from being willing to exist as liberal authorities to sympathizing with authoritarianism. So what anti-authoritarian doctrines there were that helped sustain the liberal oasis as long as they did start to feel naive or restrictive, while there is long precedent for silencing the complainers who rail against the edges of that increasingly less liberal oasis. And so authoritarianism arrives without fanfare, and those embarrassing rules that used to define the community are buried without ceremony.

At the start there were thousands of frogs in the pot. As it became warm, frogs started jumping out, but I did not jump because I was not that kind of frog. As it became hot, more frogs jumped out, but I did not jump because I was not that kind of frog. And now it's boiling, and my brain is too fried for me to ever want to jump anymore.

Literally reads like:

"In every case in history, authoritarian communists have purged the anarchists after the success of the revolution. So you should accept our blanket leadership because otherwise we will be forced to purge you after the success of the revolution. And even if you do submit to us, you will be forever at our mercy because if we ever deem you as a threat then we will eliminate you."

Authoritarians in every form just can't seem to see through their own narcissism...

I find their obsession with the term "libs" fascinating.

It has a very different meaning outside of the US. Which goes to show that their whole "but my global south!!" is fake and performative.

The fact that he uses the term "turbolibs" proves he is already infected with tankie brainrot.

we're not going to ban tankies on sight

But the start of the blurb on leftymemes says

An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of “ML” (read: Dengist) influence.

... ???

Who are "turbolibs" and why are they trying to keep them happy? ???

??????????????????

Bizarre how they keep falling for betrayal.

Yeah. Mind-blowing.

The leopards are contracting obesity, it seems

He’d rather own the libs than admit he’s being treated like every single anarchist in history.

Nah, with terminally online cosplayers, the result is almost always "Mask off, actually was aligned with tankies all along" rather than "Principled opposition getting betrayed after alliance of convenience". That's more of a real-world anarchist pitfall.

Tankies give them asspats and don't demand anything of them, while evil liberals and demsocs actually demand some small baseline of action. If one's interest in anarchism is more the sense of community than ideology, they pitch towards tankies hard. The reverse is rarer, despite tankies also being largely of the same mentality, because anarchism is less inherently tribalistic than ML insanity about orthodoxy and revisionism, making it less appealing to a tribalist mindset already immersed in such concepts.

On the other hand, I've known a number of tankies through the years who pitched hard-right once they found community with online right-wingers.

they also are infiltrating the more"neutral" political memes sub too, i noticed it has very tankie postings. after thier tankie instances have mostly been blocked by most fed users, i assume they arnt getting much engagement.

Not to the point of post/reply removal nor banning, yet. But I get that vibe. At least enough to offer the plausibility. As may fit your example experience.