The only way it’s going to make sense is if you watch it in chronological order. So you have to start with Enterprise.

Why do they want authoritarian communism? Well, I haven’t spent months reading Marxist theory, so they probably won’t think I’m able to do their arguments justice. For a “better” (and much longer) explanation, ask at hexbear or lemmygrad.

Their argument, as I understand it, seems to be that the USSR, China and North Korea really aren’t as bad as Western propaganda suggests. American imperialism is much worse, especially outside of the imperial core, North America and Europe. Also, the people that do get oppressed in AES (actually existing socialism) states mostly deserve it for being capitalists or fascists or libtards.

I’d argue that a “dictatorship off the proletariat” inevitably leads to a small group seizing and holding on to power. They seem to believe that eventually the state will wither away and give rise to Real Communism.

If I understand the post by @db0 correctly, the main point is to decentralise power and infrastructure, yes.

Basically communists that support authoritarian regimes. In this case I could also have written “Marxist-Leninists”.

It’s not made by tankies, so arguably less revolutionary.

Yes.

In case anyone else is wondering, but doesn’t feel like searching the web:

Piefed is similar to Lemmy. It federates with the Lemmyverse, Threadiverse and Fediverse. But with some additional features and differences:

• User flair. (Does not federates to Lemmy)
• Hierarchical subjects/magazines. For example, there might be a subject like art with sub-subjects like art/paintings and art/statues. (Should be possible to follow these from Lemmy)
• Instance blocking doesn’t just block communities but also comments from said instance.
• Only supported by Interstellar right now, as far as apps go, but Voyager is also planning to add support. Supported by apps like Interstellar, Summit, Voyager and Boost. Photon also plans support.
• Written in Python instead of Rust, but somehow performs better (for at least one admin).

I’ve never actually used Piefed and most information I could find was three months old. If I missed anything important or made mistakes, please let me know in a reply.

Edit:

• Combines duplicate posts.
• User karma. Users with low karma get a flair.
• Comments with a score of -10 or lower get collapsed by default.

Using the command prompt is not coding.

Ackshually, whenever you write something into the command prompt and it works, you’re writing valid Bash (or whatever shell you’re using) code. Bash is a programming language, so technically you are coding.

For example, try typing the following into a terminal:

for ((i = 0; i < 10; i++)); do echo $i; done

You just counted to nine using a loop and a variable!