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Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

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[–] Metallinatus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, there was drama here yesterday about Lemmy's creator and maintainer being a tankie or whatever and one person trying to say "Lemmy bad" because of that.

This post doesn't seem to be here by coincidence.

[–] clumsy_cat@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This post doesn’t seem to be here by coincidence.

As the person who posted the original post: i don't like/trust tankies and them being tankies is one of the reason i deleted my lemmy.ml account.

My impression is that Linus also doesn't speak in his post about tankies, but instead i think the word "communist" is equal to some general leftist.

But i kind of agree, that this post can be seen as "in support of tankies". hmm.

my impression is, furthermoore: because the more tankie politics is on lemmygrad.ml, an instance which is easily blocked, it is not that bad / could be worse. I kind of hope instances like beehaw.org have the most users someday, because they are really awesome i think

[–] Metallinatus@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First, not every communist is a tankie, second, yes, Linus is not talking about being a literal communist, but about the "everyone to the left of Trump is a communist" meaning of the word.

Third, what I was saying is that this post about the political views of the creator of a huge FOSS project is very well timed after yesterday's discussion about Lemmy's creator.

[–] honk@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Could you maybe link that debate for me? I can't find it.

[–] depreciated_cost@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just want lemmygrad defederated. I geniuinely thought the whole instance is satire but holy hell

[–] clumsy_cat@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

beehaw.org is a great instance which defederates from lemmygrad, i think :)

[–] Garrathian@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lemmy.ml probably won't because it's kind of the de-facto default instance where the devs can communicate to everyone. You're best bet is to create an account on an instance that blocks lemmygrad (like Beehaw that was mentioned, i'm sure others do as well)