shout out to the lemmy developers for not making us be stuck on the other site
shout out to mastodon devs for making us have a better life than on Twitter
shout out to the pixelfed devs for allowing a actual photography platform to exist
shout out to the peertube devs for helping us not be stuck on youtube until the end of time
ETA: Shout out to the server operators who make the stuff be done
Lemmy devs aren’t communists, they’re state capitalists. The difference is they support the state, and Karl Marx said it’s not communism if there’s a state.
Piefed didn’t hardcode a blocklist, that was a hoax. There’s an auto-federation tool that only admins can use, and it has optional limits on what communities it auto-imports. People took screenshots of that code and lied that it was a blocklist.
Marx specifically referenced a state in lower-stage communism, which got clarified by later theorists as the socialist stage as transitional between capitalism and communism.
Lemmy devs are Marxist Leninist (State Socialist). And Marx did write a out a transition phase. Only idealists think you can “press the communism” button without removing the class contradictions that gave rise to a state in the first place.
Piefed has a social credit system
They pressed the communism button in Catalonia and it worked great. Only problem is it was the middle of the Spanish Civil War, and they got betrayed by their allies.
Anarchist communism has 65,000 years of proven success. Vanguard socialism hasn’t worked once. Russia failed, it’s capitalist. China is failing, it’s capitalist. North Korea is failing, it’s feudalist. Those failures aren’t because they got couped by the CIA or conquered in a war, these are internal flaws to the political system of state “socialism”. The idea that you can slowly reform an authoritarian state into communism was always a fantasy, it never happened once.
Anyway, Piefed has karma. Like Reddit. It’s just karma. If you wanna call karma a social credit system, go ahead, but it does seem disingenuous to not explain what you mean by it.
As a piefed admin, I see a little red warning sign next to Sxan, the thorn person. Because they have low karma. When I see it, I chortle and then read what innocuous comment with a thorn has got people downvoting this time. It’s just a warning that they have low karma, it doesn’t do anything.
I’m pretty sure that was Carl Marks.
Karl Marx understood the difference between communism and communists.