pls admin how do i transfer my karma to my new account ??/
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The tough reality is that most major communist ideologies actually have irreconcilably different definitions of communism. Every definition will suck in some context. The "stateless, moneyless, classless society" is merely an attempt at finding the common traits, which doesn't quite get the full picture.
I support that definition, but it's false, unconstructive and arrogant to declare it's the only one. It never has been. It's not even Marx's definition, which is undoubtedly an extremely influential one throughout history. This is the kind of dogmatism I'd expect from a tankie.
Socialism is a widespread global phenomenon with hundreds of variants and competing theories from a range of historical underpinnings. There never has been one definition, not even back in the 1800s.
I don't know where you're making these assumptions from. They've actively promoted Beehaw, which defederated with Lemmygrad.
If they were acting in bad faith and just trying to shove ideology down your throat, they wouldn't have done that. They would have at least declared their own instance to be an authoritarian flagship instance.
The term "Left" is nothing more than a team sport since the inception of the term in the 1800s. It's not a useful term, nor a consistent term, and we only really use it for convenience. It's not a meaningful model of classifying politics. That's why we should consider just saying what we mean: progressive? socialist? egalitarian?
Same with "right", of course.
I disagree, it's not hard to check in with other spaces on the internet.
Yes. This is a different platform, I'd rather we don't just transplant all the reddit problems here.
Lemmy is inherently political. It was and is a revolt against reddit's staff, their business model and the influence of US politics, media and corporations on their platform due to their advertising model. This place wouldn't exist if there wasn't political differences.
We're not here to impress people who were banned for spreading Nazism. Go to all the reddit-clones that started in the early 2010s when reddit got called out for hosting toxic racist-or-fascist hate communities and communities sexualizing minors (e.g. /r/jailbait).
haha truth be told I've had an issue with that sidebar for months.
You mean to tell me the worthless internet points ARE WORTHLESS NOW???
My reputation is ruined!
I'm not even talking about the M-Ls, I mean even as broad as anti-capitalism and tech/FOSS. There was a meta discussion a while back I started seeking clarification on what "leftist" in the lemmy.ml blurb means, suggesting something less vague. Because to the devs, it evidently doesn't mean 'progressive capitalists'.
This isn't just some preference, because these factors are precisely why Lemmy won't become another reddit disaster. And no, they're not niche groups. Even on reddit, these communities are substantial!
There was (unfortunately dumb Discord drama pulled it apart) an archiving group that was trying to get every single Cartoon Network and Warner cartoon, and they custom built an upscale ERSGAN model for Ed, Edd n Eddy, even using actual purchased animation cels as training material.
While it inevitably has some issues, it's a great experience to have, watching something in 4K which would only ever existed in 720p (or lower? 576p?).
https://teddit.net/r/ededdneddy/comments/n6whqz/ed_edd_n_eddy_definitive_edition/ (1080p downscale torrent in the replies)
I think they're suggesting it's defederated and not centralized