Edit - I said “site” because I didn’t know how to even describe whatever this is
We’re an anarcho-syndicalist community. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. But all the decision of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting. By a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs.
Strange developers lying on GitHub distributing software is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical coding ceremony.
A of its instances and users are. If u want an instance that isn’t as extreme left check out hilariouschaos.com. A bunch of lemmy users will call it a Nazi bar despite having none of such content.
It’s neither communist nor a site.
Yes in the sense that mostly the communists inhabit it. No in the sense that, because it is decentralised, no one can force you do to a particular thing if you host your own instance
So in that way if I get banned from one instance then I can make a new account in some instance too?
I’m new here so I don’t know much about these
Think of federated services (namely lemmy) like a phone carrier. There’s a bunch of them, and you can call numbers on other networks easily, as they speak a common protocol. You (or your carrier) can always block either individual numbers, or entire carries. The thing here is, being a carrier (an instance) of lemmy is somewhat easy to do, and you can always switch carriers based on their moderation policies.
Hope this is a decent explanation.
Lemmy’s core development team are communists, of a very bizarre and inconsistent type that is openly or semi-openly in favor of massive command-economy-capitalist countries like China and Russia even when they are engaged in imperialist conduct. They’re weird. Idk what’s up with it. A lot of the core historical instances still have that mindset and are sometimes so obnoxious about demanding that everyone else needs to also that they are banned from the more recent more mainstream-thinking instances.
Generalizations are tough but I think it’s safe to say that 90% of everyone else on Lemmy is some variety of vague-leftist roughly in the mold of Bernie Sanders, which depending on your personal Overton window you may define anywhere from “disgusting liberal who betrayed the movement by voting for Kamala Harris” to “Communist.”
Hope this helps
The only sane reply in the comment section… thanks bro
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Lemmy isn’t a site- it’s a piece of software.
The software is developed by communists and there are communist sites running lemmy. However the guys developing the software’s political opinions don’t affect the work itself. It’s open source also.
