YSK: lemmy.ml is managed by tankies, and lead lemmy developer is a tankie
Lead Lemmy Developer, Dessalines, denying the Tiananmen Square Massacre and praising the Uyghur Genocide
https://sh.itjust.works/post/8419342
Dessalines AKA "parentis_shotgun" on Reddit, is the main Lemmy dev, also the admin of lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml.
Their post and discussions on Reddit (archive as the original post must have been removed):
Please join the discussions for Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem:
https://lemmy.world/post/16211417
And the discussions for finding/creating alternative communities on other instances:
https://lemmy.world/post/16235541
What is a tankie?
Tankie is a pejorative label generally applied to authoritarian communists, especially those who support acts of repression by such regimes or their allies. More specifically, the term has been applied to those who express support for one-party Marxist–Leninist socialist republics, whether contemporary or historical.
And here's him praising an ethnic cleansing
Yeah. Please note that phtn.app dev refused to change the default instance. I have moved back to Voyager since.
Edit: this has been resolved now. Photon has changed default instance to lemmy.ee
I haven't announced it, yet, but I've been testing ph.lemmy.cafe for some time now if that's your cup of tea.
Thanks. Photon is decent but I would use Voyager instead out of principle. Would you add v.lemmy.cafe?
I'll consider it. Need to manage the available resources a bit first.
They're going to change it soon.
Source: I asked them on matrix
That's good news. I will move back to Photon when that happens. Thanks for letting me know.
Done
Thank you very much! Now I feel much more comfortable using Photon.
Thanks again for developing it and making it open source.
Thank you
I never refused. In fact, it's already been changed to lemm.ee
He's not praising an ethnic cleansing. He elsewhere has claimed that the ethnic cleansing/concentration camp narrative is entirely western propaganda and isn't happening at all. Instead, it's some sort of... Incarceration, deradicalization, and rehabilitation program? Hell, I don't know.
Either way, he already does and says enough things to criticize, let's not make up more. It just makes us look just as dumb.
And you linking to a direct malware .zip package.
Lemmy.zip name is really unfortunate
The whole .zip TLD is really unfortunate.
Yeah, people pushed Google on that one specifically and they still went and did it. It should be removed.
As a worker in the Cybersecurity space, it's absolutely fantastic for job security.
Imagine making a claim like this and being so lazy that you couldn’t even throw it into virus total to confirm your hypothesis
Stop making wild ass assumptions and trying to peddle it as truth. It makes you look bad