Drewfro66 @ Drewfro66 @lemmygrad.ml

He/They. Marxist-Leninist, Butcher, DnD 3.5e enthusiast and member of PSL N

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It was supposed to happen before the end of this month but they've pushed it back to the 5th.

Hexbear published a small list of servers they intend to federate with, which included lemmygrad.ml, blahaj.zone, and lemmy.ml. It may have also included lemmy.world but I do not remember for sure.

Since lemmy.ml federates with Lemmygrad, I don't see any reason why the devs would block Hexbear.

Caves of Qud completely entranced me when I first played it. It's a great example of what modern Roguelikes can be. My only complaint is that the story and some writing is just bad (in a cringe kind of way). But most of the worldbuilding is excellent and really captures a sort of Dune-inspired science-fantasy feel. I think the game would be basically flawless (in my opinion) if they removed or reworked the Barathrumites and the Consortium of Phyta.

The point you're missing is that Lemmy only federates posts from communities with at least one subscriber from the home instance.

So if you have a single-user personal instance, you won't see any posts on All except ones from communities you personally subscribe to.

I'm not aware of any method to mass-fetch federations, to answer OP.

I work in meat and I've always been jealous of people who could buy a whole brisket for smoking. If you know enough people to give it away to, I'd go with that.

Agreed, but I think the opposite point is more poignant: Yes, you are owed things. Take them.

I use Jerboa on mobile and the native Lemmygrad UI on desktop.

Middle row, left side.

One thing I like about Lemmy is that it shows upvotes and downvotes separately in addition to the composite score.

When I make a controversial post that gets 7 upvotes and 20 downvotes, I think "Man, this was a good post. 7 people liked it". On Reddit, I would just think 13 people downvoted it. If anything, on Lemmy downvotes are just proof that I made someone I don't like mad on the Internet, which is great.

Really? Your source is a Wikipedia article, that literally anyone can edit, and which has an official policy of not allowing pro-Chinese sources?

the truth is all evidence of a supposed "Uyghur Genocide" come from (1). Adrian Zenz, an anti-Communist Christian crusader with a proven record of falsifying data to serve his own interests, and (2). The U.S. government, directly or indirectly (such as the UN commission which was led by a U.S. ambassador). Neither are trustworthy sources when it comes to China.

Ultimately the question is "What constitutes a genocide?". Because, sure - under the most liberal possible definition of a "Genocide" - there's a genocide against the Ughyrs in Xinjiang. But only in the same way that Spain is committing a genocide against Catalonians; or that America committed a genocide against Italian-Americans. Teaching the national language, promoting Atheism, and spreading Communism does not constitute a genocide. Implying that it does is an insult to the victims of real genocides, like those against the Jews and Roma, Armenians, American Indians, and Palestinians.

Not believing conspiracy theories about supposed Uyghur genocides doesn't make you any kind of radical. Most governments worldwide (including every Muslim nations outside of Europe) do not recognize what's happening in Xinjiang as a genocide.

Let me guess, dictator Chairman Xi Jinping personally developed Covid-19 in a Wuhan Lab to enact genocide against the white race too?

The Tories are practically just as bad as the Republicans these days

Check my handle lol

I agree with the other commenters who say that the issue is primarily that the Lemmyverse is too small for the grifters to bother influencing, but I also think federation (and the non-profit nature) plays into this.

A site like Reddit generally does not ban members just for being Conservative and expressing relatively mainstream right-wing beliefs. They have to present at least a veneer of "free speech" except in the case of hate speech and violence. In addition, they don't want to drive away Conservative users, because that's where their money comes from.

To a small Lemmy instance, these motives don't come into play. More users actually costs the admins more money. And while they generally don't ban users willy-nilly, they feel they have a right to ban people just for being right-wing dicks.

Ultimately right-wing ideology cannot survive in a space like this except in explicitly right-leaning instances; which will be subject to the "Nazi Bar" effect until those instances are defederated from the rest of the Lemmyverse.

China has successfully reverted anything remotely socialist about the country over the last 40 years.

Again, I think the situation is more complicated than you give it credit for.

I am not a believer in Deng Xiaoping. I believe he was basically a Chinese Gorbachev, and attempted to destroy Socialism in China through Liberal reforms. The difference between the USSR and China is that, in China, they missed the "Yeltsin coups the government" step. They tried, in the June 4th Incident, and failed. And now that most of the grifters are dead or dying, we're left with the principled Socialists who believe in Socialism with Chinese Characteristics; and it turns out that, so long as the Communist Party maintains its integrity (and, by and large, it has), the building of Productive Forces through a mixed-system economy is actually really great. It's what Gorbachev wanted for the USSR before Yeltsin's coup.

China is still in the early stages of their transition from a market system to a Socialist one, but they have made great strides in this regard. They've nationalized industries, they're building trade infrastructure with other countries to rival the West, they actually enforce anti-corruption laws, they've completely eradicated extreme poverty. They've eliminated privatized schooling, they're constantly modernizing rural life by moving villagers to apartment complexes and single-family suburban homes. Xi Jinping grew up in a cave sleeping on a stone bed - heated with a dung fire - with his entire extended family. Now these sorts of living arrangements are preserved to be toured by newer generations as "how your grandfather used to live". This is the success of Socialism in China.

I'd recommend just asking there. Trust me, we're not mean unless you're acting in bad faith (and it seems like you are not).

Lemmygrad.ml is not "extreme" in any way. We are Marxist-Leninists. At its most basic level, we believe that the Soviet Union and modern China were and are on the right side of history; not perfect, but fundamentally good. You may not agree with them, but neither of these are radical ideas.

what would lemmygrad.ml’s position on the tiananmen square massacre be?

That the death count was low (a few hundred), roughly half of which were on the government side (military and police). It was not a massacre of defenseless students, but a clash between armed radicals and the police. And none of the conflict actually took place in the square; the government dispersed the protest there without bloodshed. It took place in the city at large (which is why, in China, it is called the "June 4th incident").

This is not Chinese propaganda or a conspiracy theory. Western journalists covering the protests back this interpretation of events. The Western narrative was manufactured later. If you ask on Lemmygrad's 101 community, someone less lazy than me will give you the sources.

Speaking as an Atheist and lapsed Catholic:

I agree completely. While religion has a component of belief, it is primarily an identity, that the vast majority of people are born into. Despite not believing in God, in many ways I still consider myself a Catholic (as does the church). The idea that religion is about your personal relationship with God and belief is a Protestant one.

There is a reason why religion is included among other protected classes, but political affiliation is not.

Atheist communities online have a sanctimonious tendency to consider their bigotry above reproach. It's how you get the slide of figures like Richard Dawkins into the right-wing on the coattails of islamaphobia.

There's a fine line between making fun of a belief and stereotyping an entire religious group. And some religious groups - like Mormons or Wahhabists - are deserving of most of the hate they get. But the Catholic Church is not as bad as many make it out to be and millions have been massacred even in modern times over anti-Papistry. Spreading the ideas of Islamaphobia and anti-Papistry kills people.

I think there's a gray area with State Atheist countries. I think the way, say, the DPRK handles it - with the complete outlaw of religion - is not the right approach. In China, religious minorities are protected under the law but not allowed to join the Communist Party, which I think is close to the right approach.

I'm pleading for Communism

Wow, millions of bots people can fight over which national flag or corporate logo gets to be the biggest.

Might as well just link to a big png of the Ukrainian flag and call it a day rather than wasting everyone's time.

This is maybe only tangentially related, but my most hated recent trend in genre fiction is "Your Fantasy story is actually Sci-Fi".

Numenara/The Ninth World is probably the most popular example (and I almost give it a pass for ingenuity), but it seems to be the go-to for trashy low-budget fantasy and webcomics; and it's also really popular in fan theories (Game of Thrones and AtlA being big examples). And there's always media that sort of straddles the line between the two (the new She-Ra: Princesses of Power show being an example; fantasy themes, sci-fi setting).

Of course, you could say the same thing about Star Wars. But I guess the difference, to me, is that Star Wars is unabashedly Sci-Fi. She-Ra tries to hide its Science Fiction behind of veneer of Princesses and pseudo-magical superpowers.

Another trope I am not very fond of is nanotechnology where there are trillions of tiny robots that can effectively act as magic. It just feels like a lazy way to write science fiction because you really want a fantasy.

Agreed completely.