Rimu published yet another hit piece against the /0 instance and this time posted it in his own instance comms as well. One of his mods jumped in, admitted they don’t know anything about anything, but nevertheless felt confident enough to state their opinion as fact and in the process insult all of us collectively, then stickied his opinion for good measure.

So I decided to reply sarcastically, at which point that mod insulted me and locked the thread, which is apparently a feature in piefed which simply hides/deletes further replies in that thread, but since it’s not a feature in lemmy, it appears to function like a shadow delete.

This is what my last reply would have been.

(Yes I’m being snarky, but that “I’m so mature” bullshit just rubs me the wrong way.)

In my opinion, using mod powers to get the last insult in, is just bastard behaviour.

  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
    266·
    11 days ago

    a stated goal of the lead developer was preventing ‘tankies’ from wanting to use the software by baking stuff in.

      • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
        226·
        11 days ago

        ‘tankie’ is routinely used as a pejorative for communists (and anarchists at this point) who aren’t aligned with us imperial ‘foreign policy’

          • Aspis@lemy.lol
            191·
            11 days ago

            Sir, I have literally no idea who you are. But I’ve seen various mentions of the fact that you’re either an admin or a dev.

            Do you genuinely believe this dismissive behavior is going to do you any favors? Because you’re making this look worse.

              • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
                152·
                11 days ago

                you seemed very sure of yourself, maybe you should just say what you think instead of being evasive and condescending

                • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
                  313·
                  11 days ago

                  I don’t think most people use tankie as a perjorative for communists broadly, and I don’t think Rimu uses it that way either (which is what you were implying, right?)

                  But like I said, I’m unsurprised that you feel like they do.

                  • Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
                    152·
                    11 days ago

                    i said:

                    ‘tankie’ is routinely used as a pejorative for communists (and anarchists at this point) who aren’t aligned with us imperial ‘foreign policy’

                    you are now saying:

                    I don’t think most people use tankie as a perjorative for communists broadly

                    that’s a different claim; my claim was that ‘tankie’ is used as a pejorative against anyone on the left who’s not aligned with us imperial ‘foreign policy’.

                    you say that you don’t think it’s used as a pejorative for communists broadly

                    the fact that there are communists who have views which are aligned with us ‘foreign policy’ is not something that is in dispute on my end; you’re addressing a different claim.

                    we are here because i raised rimu’s documented goal of excluding ‘tankies’ through platform design. what does that exclusion mean if not targeting anti-imperialists?

      • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
        83·
        8 days ago

        “Tankie” is a pejorative for socialists that support existing socialist states and other anti-imperialist struggles. Communists overwhelmingly fall into this category, even if some people believe themselves to be communists yet oppose existing socialist states. When Rimu says they are trying to make PieFed harder to use for “tankies,” it’s just a blanket anticommunist decision, and even anarchists are who Rimu is currently picking fights with after defederating and blocking prominent Marxists.

        • null@piefed.nullspace.lolEnglish
          110·
          8 days ago

          This conversation was had days ago. I’m not having it again with you just because you think you’re special.

          • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
            93·
            8 days ago

            I didn’t reply because I think I’m special, I don’t, I replied because I found this thread a few days later and it’s still being actively commented in. You don’t have to respond if you don’t want to, but it’s absurd to act the way you are.

              • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
                73·
                8 days ago

                Using ableism to attack EVDG is pretty terrible, but regardless I simply said what I thought. You don’t have to reply, but you chose to do so deliberately and add insult. The funny bit is that this is the latest thread you’ve commented in before I commented, meaning you’re trying to “cordon off” older parts of the thread from conversation while continuing others. It’s all silly, just don’t reply if you don’t want to.

                And to state my intentions, I wanted to add what I believe is the actual definition of a “tankie” by combining what “anti-tankies” believe them to be with the actual stances of those called “tankies.” That way anyone going through the thread later might chance upon it and think about that. Simple as that.