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The lack of forced monetization is why I joined Lemmy. It's a feature.

If anyone considers themselves a historian and thinks anything is unbiased, their experience and insight will be dubious at best. Understanding that everyone has a distinct worldview and therefore bias is literally high-school history class, years before History 101. Do they think reddit.com, or any reddit alternative for that matter, is unbiased or neutral??

Not only is it irrelevant in context (FOSS, forkable, the devs in question only moderate this single instance), it's especially unreasonable coming from /r/AskHistorians. They of all people should be able to understand bias, context and causation. If anything, this bias is just a guarantee that they won't sell out and extort the userbase.

Masterful rhetoric, with the compression of language of poetry. Like a German haiku.

On behalf of /c/fuck_cars, yes, I would not download a car.

Well ok I would but only to seed to deprive manufacturers of profit.

Large, explicitly general-purpose communities shouldn't be defederating with such trigger-happiness. It's damaging to its own users ability to join communities they like, and for other instances' users to constructively post and support their own communities. The point of federation isn't to form cliques.

Also, it's in pretty bad faith to assert that most of the people complaining must be from Hexbear. Most of the posts I've seen so far pointing out the contradictions in this announcement are from long-time active accounts from all around the place. (Your account, on the other hand, is literally one post old...)

If this was a specific-purpose non-politics instance like many are, I'd say power to you. But for an general-purpose instance that advertises itself as being:

A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use.

Lemmy.world is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use.

...then there's a need for some serious self-examination. Preemptively blocking thousands of users, and talking about blocking another long-lasting substantial community because some other community made comments about them? This is disappointing, this does not sound properly thought-out.

You're right, defederation should only be considered as a last resort. Not as a broad-spectrum discriminatory first action.

The authors ideals and beliefs are relevant, because those guided their decision to make a Free and Open Source, federated alternative to reddit, and avoid capitalist modes of funding (like integrating ads or other exploitative methods). That's why this existed long before reddit was extorting through their API.

No. That's the admin of Lemmygrad. They are not a dev, or staff of lemmy.ml

It's honestly hard not to feel sorry about them after the Korean War. A lot of pro-NK sentiments are linked to anti-US and anticapitalist sentiments, seeing them as the desperate victim of invasion.

I'm not a fan of them, there is plenty they are doing wrong, but they're also far from the comical villains they're seen as by Western media. You know, "NK declare unicorns exist", " everyone has to have Kim's haircut " and also "you get executed for having his haircut", "political rival executed by anti-aircraft gun" and then later photographed alive.

The answer is somewhere in the middle and in many ways a product of their absurd, tragic history.

Yeah, this site is in early stages and if someone just wants to be babysat... we literally don't have the manpower for that yet! A smaller dedicated userbase is more important at this stage than mindless growth.

But they caught me writing programs (It wasn't me)

Saw me scraping on the message (It wasn't me)

They even caught me on the repo (It wasn't me)

They said I even had a homepage (It wasn't me)

I'd say most hackers were anarchic full-stop. Most probably without any analysis of economic systems, merely a distaste for rules or authority. It's intrinsic in the act of hacking.

There is certainly a huge influence from (socialist) anarchists, such as zine culture and other punk influence, and rejection of intellectual property (e.g. piracy). "Anarcho-capitalism", as far as I can interpret, is founded on a respect for property and non-aggression. Hacking is possibly the opposite.

Cyberpunk culture, especially historically but even today despite recuperation, is a direct critique of capitalism-without-government, or where the corporate has become the government, depicting it as a dystopia.