AFAIK the devs are supporting communist ideologies, especially maoism and they like the USSR’s demolition of independence revolutions like the hungarian 1956 and the checzh 1968 uprising.
They also made a controversial statement about the Uyghur genocide too. I’m not sure about the specifics tho.
They run lemmygrad and are dedicated communists, as well as having a very opinionated “bad words” filter that’s hard coded into the lemmy server software and not configurable without building it yourself.
Edit: commented below, but it looks like at some point they added the ability to customize the bad words filter as part of the site config, so that part doesn’t currently apply. Early on there was a bit of drama about the original hard coded version though.
It’s honestly not a terrible list, but there’s at least one entry in there that falls victim to the scunthorpe problem, and it sucks that it’s not something administrators can easily customize.
Edit: looking through the PRs it seems like they made the filter customizable at some point, so this is a little outdated. The whole communist thing still applies though.
I appreciate the link. I don’t see any political words in the “slur filter”, just, you know, slurs. Which, as far as it goes, I’m fine with that being baked in (language does change over time, but I guess that’s what PRs are for).
Did it used to say “tankies” in it or something like that?
I keep seeing this term “Tankies” on Lemmy, but I’ve only ever seen it on Lemmy. I can’t tell if you mean people who wear tank-tops, or people who drive tanks. Neither one makes sense given the context of this, or other threads I’ve seen the term in.
Starting to think it’s a slur of some kind, but I don’t see who it would be against.
Tankie is a term that stems from the UK Communist Party (fringe political party) mocking/distancing themselves from some of its more extreme members that defended the USSR sending tanks in to quell civilian protests in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. And later, to mock those who defended Mao’s crackdowns.
Since then, the term has evolved to mean any westerner who proclaims to be left but defends the imperialist actions and human rights abuses of Russia (despite them not even being remotely left wing anymore!) To a lesser degree it’s also applied to China.
In short: a westerner who rails about how horrible and imperialist the west is, but falls silent or defends it when Russia or China do the same or worse.
It would’ve cost you less time to put that term into your address bar and let your favorite search engine take you to Wikipedia and other informative sources, than writing this comment and constantly wondering what that term means. It’s absolutely not a term related to Lemmy, it’s just that lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, hexbear and the Lemmy developers themselves are Tankies.
Who are Lemmy’s main devs controversial to?
AFAIK the devs are supporting communist ideologies, especially maoism and they like the USSR’s demolition of independence revolutions like the hungarian 1956 and the checzh 1968 uprising.
They also made a controversial statement about the Uyghur genocide too. I’m not sure about the specifics tho.
Removed
They run lemmygrad and are dedicated communists, as well as having a very opinionated “bad words” filter that’s hard coded into the lemmy server software and not configurable without building it yourself.
Edit: commented below, but it looks like at some point they added the ability to customize the bad words filter as part of the site config, so that part doesn’t currently apply. Early on there was a bit of drama about the original hard coded version though.
Exsqueeze me? Where might one see this hard coded bad words filter?
It’s encoded as a regex which you can find here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/blob/78702b59fd56f767f3d5612bfd60e294979f91f8/crates/utils/src/utils/slurs.rs#L74
It’s honestly not a terrible list, but there’s at least one entry in there that falls victim to the scunthorpe problem, and it sucks that it’s not something administrators can easily customize.
Edit: looking through the PRs it seems like they made the filter customizable at some point, so this is a little outdated. The whole communist thing still applies though.
I appreciate the link. I don’t see any political words in the “slur filter”, just, you know, slurs. Which, as far as it goes, I’m fine with that being baked in (language does change over time, but I guess that’s what PRs are for).
Did it used to say “tankies” in it or something like that?
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Those who aren’t Tankies.
I keep seeing this term “Tankies” on Lemmy, but I’ve only ever seen it on Lemmy. I can’t tell if you mean people who wear tank-tops, or people who drive tanks. Neither one makes sense given the context of this, or other threads I’ve seen the term in.
Starting to think it’s a slur of some kind, but I don’t see who it would be against.
Tankie is a term that stems from the UK Communist Party (fringe political party) mocking/distancing themselves from some of its more extreme members that defended the USSR sending tanks in to quell civilian protests in Hungary and Czechoslovakia. And later, to mock those who defended Mao’s crackdowns.
Since then, the term has evolved to mean any westerner who proclaims to be left but defends the imperialist actions and human rights abuses of Russia (despite them not even being remotely left wing anymore!) To a lesser degree it’s also applied to China.
In short: a westerner who rails about how horrible and imperialist the west is, but falls silent or defends it when Russia or China do the same or worse.
It would’ve cost you less time to put that term into your address bar and let your favorite search engine take you to Wikipedia and other informative sources, than writing this comment and constantly wondering what that term means. It’s absolutely not a term related to Lemmy, it’s just that lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, hexbear and the Lemmy developers themselves are Tankies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
some people
Almost everyone.
sane people