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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I love how they are they are hating piefed's growth.

sh.itjust.works needs to get a piefed instance.

It's honestly a lot more nicer than Lemmy, even if we ignore that Lemmy's developers are demagogues who support genocidal imperialism.

And it seems piefed.social is under a DDoS attack, I wonder who is responsible...

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 30 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Such projection.

If you're a tankie visiting this community, come and post! You won't be banned

[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are you sure about that? I do hope you ban people equating the holocaust and the Uyghur genocide (or the holodomor, or the disenfranchisement of other non-Han chinese peoples and cultures, or ...) to a piece of bird shit.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, they get downvoted and mocked into oblivion, while simultaneously demonstrating the purpose of this community. Why ban them?

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why ban them?

Because lies spread by their repetition, not their quality. Same as advertisements.

If tankie fuckwits were out in every comment section here playing their greatest hits, it would create an environment of hostility towards NON-genocidal users as well as normalizing their rhetoric being expressed in decent places.

As I understand it, Goat only bans for explicit misinformation and the like.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

I only ban if they're legitimately trolling, spamming silly images, and pinging random people, then pretending they never pinged them.

Tankies know they can come into this community and do as you described, but they don't, since they know they're wrong and will be proven wrong. They can't risk their usual talking points being countered without a tankie mod banning the person countering.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago

In other communities, I'd agree. In a community dedicated to exposing their lies? I think I see it as a "give them enough rope to hang themselves" situation.

Though I absolutely take your point.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I rarely ban users, you can check out modlog if you're unsure.

I don't ban tankies who rarely wander into here because if I do, their claims of this being an echo-chamber become true.

[–] Phineaz@feddit.org 4 points 8 months ago

I didn't mean to say that you ban people excessively. Anyway, your reasoning seems fair :)

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Lemmy as a whole is very left leaning. Reminds me of the evangelicals that thought they were being persecuted in the US growing up. Being called out for a bad take is not persecution.

[–] green_red_black@slrpnk.net 29 points 8 months ago

“The Free Open Source Software that has no for-profit funding or monetization mechanisms is clearly a pro-capitalist haven.”

Tankie talking about Piefed

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

"The DPRK"

They really just can't help themselves.

[–] goat@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

It's so bizarre. They're so deep in the campist nonsense they can't admit there are bad examples of communism.

[–] Glide@lemmy.ca 10 points 8 months ago
[–] null@piefed.nullspace.lol 6 points 8 months ago

Lol. They're scared.