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  • Cowbee [he/they]C Cowbee [he/they]

    I'm the same kind of socialist as Marx, Engels, Lenin, etc. I'm a Marxist-Leninist, communist, whatever you want to call me. I'm no Nazi, and equating Nazism with communism contributes to Double Genocide Theory, a form of Holocaust trivialization.

    I'm also not banned here either, I can talk to you just fine. This is a conspiracy-theory with 0 evidence, I'm not sure why you believe it so strongly.

    softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS This user is from outside of this forum
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    softestsapphic@lemmy.world
    wrote last edited by
    #717

    Marx, Engles, and Lenin did not support dictatorships

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    • C cowbee_admirer@reddthat.com

      My main account is @vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net, I'm really not lying to you. But I feel honored to be compared to comrade Cowbee

      softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS This user is from outside of this forum
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      softestsapphic@lemmy.world
      wrote last edited by
      #718

      Thank you for signing into your main account to reply to me.

      If your ideology is valid you shouldn't have to make alts to force people to read your comments

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      • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS softestsapphic@lemmy.world

        Marx, Engles, and Lenin did not support dictatorships

        Cowbee [he/they]C This user is from outside of this forum
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        Cowbee [he/they]
        wrote last edited by
        #719

        Neither do I. They all support the working class controlling the state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is what I support.

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        • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS softestsapphic@lemmy.world

          Marx, Engles, and Lenin did not support dictatorships

          Cowbee [he/they]C This user is from outside of this forum
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          Cowbee [he/they]
          wrote last edited by
          #720

          Neither do I. They all support the working class controlling the state, the dictatorship of the proletariat, which is what I support.

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          • The Bard in GreenT The Bard in Green

            I have kind of the opposite experience. When I go on reddit, I feel depressed and angry, when I go on Lemmy I laugh and learn stuff. Probably the communities I subscribe to though. I get political and regional news from Reddit (and don't have an actual reddit account anymore). I get funny science and Star Trek memes from Lemmy and cyber security and tech news.

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            frustrated@lemmy.world
            wrote last edited by
            #721

            Where are you that you are having these experiences? I find Lemmy hard to explore.

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            • OpenStarsO OpenStars

              I doubt the latter - we are too small - but many are definitely alts for sure. Lemmy's lack of federation for moderator reports (either coming soon or only came recently I forget which) made that necessary.

              softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS This user is from outside of this forum
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              softestsapphic@lemmy.world
              wrote last edited by
              #722

              .ml and hexbear are literal troll farms

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              • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS softestsapphic@lemmy.world

                Is the "socialism" in the room with us right now?

                I think you might have a different understanding of socialism than modern socialists. Yours seems more like a 1950s flavor of "socialism"

                Cowbee [he/they]C This user is from outside of this forum
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                Cowbee [he/they]
                wrote last edited by
                #723

                I have the same understanding of socialism as Marx, Engels, Lenin, and those who uphold them today. Cuba, Vietnam, the PRC, etc are all examples of socialism. Socialism is, at its simplest, public ownership as the principle aspect of the economy and the working classes in control of the state.

                Who are these "modern socialists?" Do you have a country you can point to, or perhaps an organization? Why are these "modern" socialists as compared to what I uphold?

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                • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deG gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de

                  What do you think of a content filter setup when you register the account like this:

                  Effectively, when you click "no politics", it blocks the !News@lemmy.world, !politics@lemmy.world, !politicalmemes@lemmy.world, !pravda_news@news.abolish.capital communities and such.

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                  nao@sh.itjust.works
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                  #724

                  What does it do when you select the middle option?

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                  • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS softestsapphic@lemmy.world

                    Thank you for signing into your main account to reply to me.

                    If your ideology is valid you shouldn't have to make alts to force people to read your comments

                    Cowbee [he/they]C This user is from outside of this forum
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                    Cowbee [he/they]
                    wrote last edited by
                    #725

                    Again, I'm not @Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com. You can check @vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net's account and see that he writes in a similar style that is distinct from mine. While flattering, I'd actually appreciate if comrade vovchik_ilich didn't use my username as an alt-name, even if it isn't the same, because I don't like the idea of a cult of personality around me and because it can lead to confusion, like here.

                    I have 3 accounts: @Cowbee@lemmy.ml, @Cowbee@hexbear.net, and @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml. I used to have a lemm.ee account that I abandoned before making my Lemmy.ml account, made my Hexbear alt a long while after, and a Grad account very recently. I only use Lemmy.ml when interacting with any federated instance, and scroll Grad and Hexbear locally.

                    All that being said, you have no evidence that I have multiple accounts, nor can you actually argue against the points being made. This is just conspiracy-theory nonsense.

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                    • softestsapphic@lemmy.worldS softestsapphic@lemmy.world

                      Thank you for signing into your main account to reply to me.

                      If your ideology is valid you shouldn't have to make alts to force people to read your comments

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                      cowbee_admirer@reddthat.com
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                      #726

                      I don't make alt accounts to force anyone to do anything. I've explained you that Hexbear is a safe space without transphobia of Zionism, and I'm glad it's mostly defederated and I'm not exposed to cognitohazard of such levels.

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                      • Cowbee [he/they]C Cowbee [he/they]

                        Again, I'm not @Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com. You can check @vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net's account and see that he writes in a similar style that is distinct from mine. While flattering, I'd actually appreciate if comrade vovchik_ilich didn't use my username as an alt-name, even if it isn't the same, because I don't like the idea of a cult of personality around me and because it can lead to confusion, like here.

                        I have 3 accounts: @Cowbee@lemmy.ml, @Cowbee@hexbear.net, and @Cowbee@lemmygrad.ml. I used to have a lemm.ee account that I abandoned before making my Lemmy.ml account, made my Hexbear alt a long while after, and a Grad account very recently. I only use Lemmy.ml when interacting with any federated instance, and scroll Grad and Hexbear locally.

                        All that being said, you have no evidence that I have multiple accounts, nor can you actually argue against the points being made. This is just conspiracy-theory nonsense.

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                        cowbee_admirer@reddthat.com
                        wrote last edited by
                        #727

                        Oh hey buddy, sorry, I didnt mean to stir up stuff around your username. I'll delete the account to prevent further confusion.

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                        • C cowbee_admirer@reddthat.com

                          Oh hey buddy, sorry, I didnt mean to stir up stuff around your username. I'll delete the account to prevent further confusion.

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                          Cowbee [he/they]
                          wrote last edited by
                          #728

                          Thanks, comrade! No worries, it's very flattering, but this won't be the last time someone accuses you of being me making an alt.

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                          • N nao@sh.itjust.works

                            What does it do when you select the middle option?

                            gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deG This user is from outside of this forum
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                            gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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                            #729

                            i don't know

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                            • Z zen@lemmy.zip

                              I'm going to be frank.

                              I'm highly empathetic, and studied history, sociology, economics, international relations, and a few other subjects in university. I dabble in reading as well.

                              It's really, really hard for me to stomach the news coming out of the US right now. I'm Australian, so in comparison I live in a utopia. But I just want to cry whenever I see how innocent people are being hurt in the US, Venezuela, Palestine, or really anywhere else. I get angry when I see how the US government, and many others are fucking everything up right now. Things don't have to be like this.

                              There is so much American news on this platform. There is so much bad news in general. I don't come to the internet to stress and worry. I come here to learn stuff about niches and chill out. And every time I'm on Lemmy I'm left with the same bad feelings I get from reading world news subreddits.

                              Let me be clear; I have no problem with the fact that American news gets posted. It's that when I get on the lemmy.zip or lemmy.world page, some days 9/10 links are to American news, that is very, very, bad news. It makes me miserable.

                              So why should I be here instead of just switching off? I love Lemmy, but I find that I just can't justify coming on here. It makes me feel awful.

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                              gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
                              wrote last edited by
                              #730

                              I really feel you. I recently started aggressively blocking all politics-related communities. It does help a lot. Feed is much emptier, obviously, but it's still the right move i guess.

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                              • R randomgal@lemmy.ca

                                This. It was never about not having gatekeepers, it was always about being the gatekeeper instead.

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                                gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
                                wrote last edited by
                                #731

                                It was never about not having gatekeepers, it's about being able to choose who the gatekeeper(s) is/are.

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                                • J jabbathethott@lemmy.world

                                  Most of the fun communities I've found are pretty dead so my feed is just full of world and tech news that is usually sad, aggravating, or misleading. No, I don't need another story of battery technology I'll never use on my feed.

                                  The Bard in GreenT This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  The Bard in Green
                                  wrote last edited by
                                  #732

                                  mander.xyz for science articles and memes.
                                  startrek.website and tenforward@lemmy.world for star trek memes.
                                  cybersecurity@sh.itjust.works for cybersecurity news, but not a lot of discussion.

                                  The self hosting communities on lemmy.ml and lemmy.world are pretty active and good at answering questions.

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                                  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deG gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de

                                    I really feel you. I recently started aggressively blocking all politics-related communities. It does help a lot. Feed is much emptier, obviously, but it's still the right move i guess.

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                                    zen@lemmy.zip
                                    wrote last edited by zen@lemmy.zip
                                    #733

                                    I'll have to do that, but a non-zero amount of posts leak through into other communities. I did find out I can just filter posts by keywords using uBlock Origin.

                                    Actually, could you please screenshot your filter list? I'd really like to just block them all without going through the effort of having to find them.

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                                    • M moffkalast@lemmy.world

                                      When this post is two days old and still on the very top of my feed you know that it's either a ghost town or the sorting algo doesn't work.

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                                      gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
                                      wrote last edited by
                                      #734

                                      i am still surprised that 800 people commented. i never saw 800 people under a single post so it must be pretty dang important to people

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                                      • T ton@lemmy.world

                                        As much I love the idea of Lemmy, I've noticed myself I was drawn back to Reddit. Why? Because it has a larger community, of course, but (and please don't shoot me for this), Reddit's algo and rewards. Yes, the achievements gallery is stupid, but it works.

                                        The folks building Lemmy investigating how to increase engagement, this is one factor.

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                                        gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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                                        Reddit’s algo

                                        in fact i have been asking for a better Lemmy content recommendation system here

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                                        • Z zen@lemmy.zip

                                          I'll have to do that, but a non-zero amount of posts leak through into other communities. I did find out I can just filter posts by keywords using uBlock Origin.

                                          Actually, could you please screenshot your filter list? I'd really like to just block them all without going through the effort of having to find them.

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                                          gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
                                          wrote last edited by
                                          #736

                                          mostly these

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