it's inevitable

I love me some piracy, but I don't blame them for taking an anti-piracy stance. Wouldn't want to get wrapped up in any legal issues as a small team surviving on donations.

Can always make an alt account on an instance that isn't blocking it, anyway.

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Glad I didn't pick lemmy.world as my homeserver

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- It's like yall do CrossFit. Any chance you get you have to tell everyone.
  
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Yes. It is their right to block whatever they want on their instance. People who are upset by this ban can just move to an instance that is closer to their opinions.

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What are tankies?

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Radical, Putin-loving, Zedong-worshipping, genocide apologist Communists

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i am going to give a Historically correct answer:

during the cold war, there was a peaceful uprising in the soviets puppet states (mainly hungary i believe).
the soviets decided the way to deal with these people was to send in tanks and slaughter the peacefully protesting civilians

everyone that was excusing the soviets use of Tanks against Civilians was dubbed a "tankie"

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

Basically, leftists who think no one who calls themselves a leftist/communist/socialist (e.g Stalin) Can do any wrong

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Authoritarian-Communists

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- So... All communists.
  
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see the tank in the middle?

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As I recall everyone calls communists as tankies. For example people, who prefer maoism, that cuban communism and other ones I guess.

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- There is a distinction between Communists and tankies.
  
  Tankies are a subset of Communists. Specifically, tankies have rejected Marx in favor of authoritarianism, power for power's sake. "Everyone is equal, and some people are more equal than others" sort of thinking. They want to show anyone who doesn't agree with them the barrel of a gun.
  
  The term came from when the Soviets invaded Hungary in order to prevent popular reforms. But I think a better example of what tankies are like (and how they differ from communists) is looking at Czechoslovakia.
  
  Czechoslovakia was a communist country already, but they were doing reforms that would help the average worker and promote equality within the country. The plan was to transition away from a single-party state within Czechoslovakia and towards a form of democratic socialism, where the parties still held core communist ideas but no one figure could wield influence (in line with what Marx expected).
  
  The Soviets saw this as a threat. Their model of a one-party authoritarian state where the secret police dominate everything and the proletariat have no rights is the one they wanted to push everywhere. So they invaded Czechoslovakia and sent tanks into the country.
  
  Later, the Chinese Communist Party sent tanks in to crush peaceful protestors who were asking for human rights and democracy within the proletariat. The protesters were literally turned into jelly by the tanks and washed down into the gutters.
  
  Tankies support these atrocities. They say that a one-party authoritarian state is the only way to do things. Don't let them trick you into thinking they're the only true Communists - tankies want an upper class and a lower class, just like capitalists do. The distinction is that to tankies, the upper class are the party elite, the ones who do and say what they're told. The lower class are the people they don't like, or those who are unlucky enough not to have friends in high places.
  
  Tankies are absolute scum. Lemmy's founders are tankies, Lemmygrad and Lemmy.ml both push tankie politics (Lemmy.ml is more subtle about it, but does enforce it via their moderation policy), and now Hexbear is coming over to Lemmy in order to complete the tankie trifecta.
  
  I hate that this place is infested with tankies. I don't mind communists - I'm pretty left-leaning myself - but tankies are not true communists, and they never can be unless they fundamentally rethink their views about equality and freedom.
  
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- Not all communists are Tankies. The ones who love authoritarian oppressors like Xi and Kim are the Tankies.
  
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- Join us anarcho-communist solarpunks! There are literally dozens of us!
  
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one of these things is not like the others

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Does Lemmy.world have a policy against piracy? It seems like several instances have piracy related communities and a lot of users from elsewhere post to them.

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Mine sharing the context? I'm OOTL

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- Sure thing. I posted a photo in another comment just a little further down but basically Lemmy.World blocked a couple piracy communities across different instances to protect themselves and their users.
  
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Wha context?

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- Found this screenshot for context well after I asked the same question
  
  https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/209c5f83-f6a7-40a8-b1b3-ffaab9b6b5c3.webp
  
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probably gonna move to dbzer0 just for piracy tbh

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Kinda upset they went that way. Probably gonna make my alt my main now.

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It's IMO an existential threat for lemmy.world. Sure, a big corporation could handle it, but here we're talking about an instance which will be forced to shut down if copyright lawyers knock at the admins' doors. Federation is a double-edged sword, it means technically you also host all the content that's being published on instances that are federated with you, so in particular if piracy communities don't do a good enough job cleaning up lemmy.world will be liable for that content since it will be physically on this server too.

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What option do you propose then?

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- Not ban piracy talk and communities?
  
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But still nothing on Threads...

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Give em hell boys!

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I feel like every dumbass lib I've interacted with on Lemmy came from lemmy.world

I'm holding solidarity with all my fellow Leftists on this one. I don't know about the ones running it but if the members are any indication, I don't think lemmy.world's critiques are coming from the Left.

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Just wait until you find out the entire lemmy platform was created by tankies. Stick to kbin imo.

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what's happening with .world? I didn't follow the news

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blocked all big piracy communities, is trying to move to discord for all announcements.

Too add my personal opinion like why the fuck, they gain nothing from the discord thing and the piracy thing has been proven pretty safe from email servers operating similarly

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