I haven’t checked Lemmy for a long time but I wanna get off Reddit again, yet I still need to know how many users are on here. Which lemmy instances are suitable to me, the most popular, and which ones to avoid? For context, im queer, anarchist with DemSoc leaning, and environmentalist. Is there a comprehensive list of all the instances and their main functions? Is the instance I’m on still workable? Any feedback would help, thx. <3

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      We didn’t want to be lending any form of support to developers who deny genocide and promote transphobia.

      So we found a more ethical solution and than it turns out the developers are fucking amazing and it’s progressing so fast that it’s leaving Lemmy in the dust. Many people are now moving because it’s offering features and improvements that the Lemmy devs refused to.

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      the hard-line social democrats all started migrating because communists upset them. I’m an anarchist and don’t mind it so I’m still here

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        Nah, you’re a tankie.

        You can easily find Anarchists on PieFed either on Quokk.au or Anarchist.Nexus though for anyone who wants to join us.

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          Why is that supposed to be an insult, I know nothing of tankie But was called one a couple days ago

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            Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia. That became the default term for anyone who supports brutal authoritarian states that suppress the people to assert their control. In modern day context a tankie would be someone who blames Ukraine for being invaded and denies the genocide of the Uyghurs.

            Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

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              I appreciate you for taking the time to explain this to me, mostly sounds like a term people used to other other people

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              Tankies are people who supported the use of tanks to attack the civilian protests against the USSR in Hungary and later Czechoslovakia.

              I wouldn’t call fascists or CIA- & bourgeois-backed counterrevolutionaries “civilians.”

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                No one buys your tankie gibberish!

                I said it before (in this thread) and I will say it again:

                ML are basically on par with Nazis; full endorsement of extermination of national identity/language/culture of “bad” ethnicities, support for russian Lebensraum, support for mass internment camps for “bad” ethnicities.

                Dessalines, an American, has never lived in Ukraine or russia, doesn’t speak Ukrainian or russian and yet he comes up with bullshit like “putin just wants to show he means business” or “war is war, civilian casualties are fine [as long as it’s Ukrainians]”.

                You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you’ve never been there.

                The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations, KGB goons in universities and a corrupt leadership that makes the current oligarch/criminal look like good guys. You’ve likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.

                Thank you for proving my point!

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                  ML are basically on par with Nazis;

                  you sound like you have an axe to grind. if you’re going to call people nazis for not supporting ukraine I’m going to point out that there’s plenty of Nazis that do support ukraine. I include in that list the instance run by a transphobe (sh.itjust.works) where they have a comm run by a bunch of “social democrats” and freely discuss all the ‘degenerate roaches’, which they can’t wait to be free from.

                  I don’t support ukraine, I don’t support russia, I oppose the war entirely and want people (yes even you) to no longer get sent to the front to die in an inter-capitalist conflict.

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                    I don’t support Ukraine

                    Thank you for proving my point (once again) about tankies supporting extermination of Ukrainian culture/identity/language and continued internment of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in the occupied territories (and mass discrimination and prosecution).

                    You even openly admit that you support putin’s “de-nazifiction of Ukraine” rhetoric.

                    You most definitely do not “oppose the war entirely”. Rejection of self determination for Ukrainians (and the right to speak in Ukrainian) is support for the russian invasion of Ukraine.

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                  You never had any friends from Hungary or Czesh Republic, you’ve never been there.

                  I have been to the Czechia, actually. I spent a week in Prague in the early 2000s.

                  The USSR was total trash. Abject poverty, […]

                   

                  […] genocidal extermination of the cultrue and language of occupied nations

                  If the USSR exterminated the cultures and languages of “occupied” nations, then why are those cultures still speaking Armenian, Azerbaijani, Belarusian, Estonian, Georgian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Tajik, Turkmen, Ukrainian, and Uzbek?

                  You’ve likely never met anyone who lived in the USSR.

                  I have known some, and I know a few right here on Lemmy.

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                    Congrats! You went on an American eurotrip in your youth. And you know a few people who were born in the USSR on Lemmy (does that include me)?

                    If you know so much about the USSR, can you tell me which professions were (outside of being a party goons) considered profitable and why? Wikipedia answers aren’t going to cut it. Something that shows basic knowledge on this issue without web searching. Indulge me, lil commie bro!

                    Yes, meat was widely available in the USSR and common access was not limited to well-connected individuals and party goons! What a great life!

                    The Holodomor never happened and it was CIA psyop! The CIA made a time machine to travel back in time and discredit comrade Stalin! I see. My great grandmother was a time travelling CIA agent working to discredit communism!

                    Local language education was definitely not suppressed and cultural group of occupied nations weren’t prosecuted! You could make movies in your language and vote to have education be primarily in your own language, right? You could even vote leave the USSR since it wasn’t an occupation!

                    The real irony is that even the russians don’t believe in your cointelpro and counter-revolutionary gibberish (wrt Czechia and Hungary). They are lucid enough to understand that it was matter of imperialism and ethno-national supremacism.

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          name calling is pretty rude, believe it or not it’s possible to be an anarchist and not use one of your instances. for me I find plenty of other anarchists in my day to day organizing, separate from the internet

          Some rightwing/centrists like to use it to insult any leftist. You can just ignore those ones.

          oh, noted

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        That’s partially true, but not all true at all. Piefed development is way faster currently than Lemmy.

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        Personally, communists don’t bother me. Transphobic developers, however, don’t make me want to use their software.

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                Did you think that this was a gotcha?

                I’m going to give myself time to look through your comments on my flight. It will be amusing watching the so called “anarchist” swiftly devolve into an authoritarian.

                You cultists sure do love your buzzwords.

                How many times do you think you’ve said death to America, by the way? I’ll have a count for you by the end of my flight.

                Edit: ooh the direct quote of the day

                The U.S. did deserve 9/11 though

                Yeah. I’m sure this gets worse, and I haven’t even spent longer than 30 seconds looking. You should probably keep the fact that you’re ‘trans’ to yourself, if Lemmy were a bigger platform you would 100% be painting the picture of the ‘mentally ill trans person’ rhetoric the conservatives are pushing. You are literally problematic in your existence.

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                  I’ve literally organized with other anarchists irl for years. why don’t you call me a troglodyte some more

                  death to America btw

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                    Yep, totally rotten piece of shit you are — your existence is problematic for anyone that’s actually trying to transition. Keep that to yourself, lest you find yourself helping the conservatives trying to kill you.