Communists acknowledge the necessity of censoring harmful ideas and effectively communicate their rationale. Meanwhile, liberals criticize communists for such practices while simultaneously advocating for the suppression of dissenting views. This exposes their hypocritical stance on free speech and open dialogue.
On the various posts in this current flood of “Communists should leave the communist instance for my own comfort” nonsense, even the anti-.ml crowd can’t provide good examples of how anyone who looks at them funny gets banned. Nobody has modlog receipts and almost every example THEY provide of communists oppressing them or whatever is THEM saying dumb nothings like “I can’t hear you over Tienanmen Square” or cussing up a storm while the .ml person is like “Here’s a book about XYZ”
I’m sure people have been perhaps hastily moderated on .ml, but probably not any more than any other instance, and if so they aren’t the ones rallying to de-ML .ml.
I think a lot of this is basically culture shock of people realizing that their views aren’t dominant on the platform and having their deeply held biases questioned.
Not only that, but Reddit refugees too idealistic for Reddit, but without niche interests guiding them to a niche instance, plus a desire to not even be federated with Marxist instances.
I am a reddit refugee. Let me share my opinion, if you care for it. You, the ml instance, have been here from the start. You are a solid community of likeminded people, but your ideologies are on the far left side of the spectrum. That means that they are less relatable to the common public. With the influx of the reddit refugees, you got an influx of a lot of “common people”. I’m pretty sure that the common people outnumber you now. The issue now is that .ml is a default instance, so a lot of these people came to this instance for refuge and found you and your ideology and were overwhelmed by the extremism of it all. You probably even scared off a few of them. These refugees felt unwelcomed and now resent you for it. I think that’s the core of it. The other issue now is that these refugees want to expand and grow their communities. You’re still here, still default with the biggest reddit-like communities and still scaring off newcomers with your ideologies. So you stand in the way of their wish for growth. And that’s exactly the situation where conflict happens.
i suspect that most of them are reddit refugees since they push so hard for an echo chamber against viewpoints they don’t like
Communists acknowledge the necessity of censoring harmful ideas and effectively communicate their rationale. Meanwhile, liberals criticize communists for such practices while simultaneously advocating for the suppression of dissenting views. This exposes their hypocritical stance on free speech and open dialogue.
On the various posts in this current flood of “Communists should leave the communist instance for my own comfort” nonsense, even the anti-.ml crowd can’t provide good examples of how anyone who looks at them funny gets banned. Nobody has modlog receipts and almost every example THEY provide of communists oppressing them or whatever is THEM saying dumb nothings like “I can’t hear you over Tienanmen Square” or cussing up a storm while the .ml person is like “Here’s a book about XYZ”
I’m sure people have been perhaps hastily moderated on .ml, but probably not any more than any other instance, and if so they aren’t the ones rallying to de-ML .ml.
I think a lot of this is basically culture shock of people realizing that their views aren’t dominant on the platform and having their deeply held biases questioned.
Not only that, but Reddit refugees too idealistic for Reddit, but without niche interests guiding them to a niche instance, plus a desire to not even be federated with Marxist instances.
I am a reddit refugee. Let me share my opinion, if you care for it. You, the ml instance, have been here from the start. You are a solid community of likeminded people, but your ideologies are on the far left side of the spectrum. That means that they are less relatable to the common public. With the influx of the reddit refugees, you got an influx of a lot of “common people”. I’m pretty sure that the common people outnumber you now. The issue now is that .ml is a default instance, so a lot of these people came to this instance for refuge and found you and your ideology and were overwhelmed by the extremism of it all. You probably even scared off a few of them. These refugees felt unwelcomed and now resent you for it. I think that’s the core of it. The other issue now is that these refugees want to expand and grow their communities. You’re still here, still default with the biggest reddit-like communities and still scaring off newcomers with your ideologies. So you stand in the way of their wish for growth. And that’s exactly the situation where conflict happens.