• kingofras@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    19·
    5 days ago

    Well argued.

    I didn’t post it, I just saved it somewhere on .ml and it is gone, and found it back on !progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

    My question stands though, I sense that “political” is used fairly broadstrokely It almost means “complicated, longer than 5 second attention span” stuff.

    With political meaning “relating to the government or public affairs of a country”, e.g. a broad definition too. However, a free person being essentially abducted on the street by plain clothes “law enforcement” could perhaps be seen as a humanitarian, civil liberty, freedom of speech, and some many others before it being just “political”.

    Is there a guideline on Lemmy why we let the tankies be part of this or is a bit of an analogy to the r/TheDonald situation on Reddit? As in: I hope that we don’t slide the same way.

    • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      10·
      5 days ago

      Is there a guideline on Lemmy why we let the tankies be part of this

      How much do you know about the history of Lemmy?

    • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
      52·
      5 days ago

      Is there a guideline on Lemmy why we let the tankies be part of this

      It depends on your instance. There are 3 main tankie instances. Hexbear, Lemmygrad and lemmy.ml my instance blocks the first two but allows the last. This is because ML users are generally not obnoxious and keep their politics within their instances while the other two run wild all over other instances. Personally I dont feel like ML users are that bad. There is right wing lemmy instances but Majority of the instances de federated from them over their disgusting views. I think lemmy does a good job and has the infrastructure in place to promote a healthy range of political views.

      • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        Are there any right-wing instances that stuck around and didn’t move to another platform? I know at least one left for Nostr.