I’m not sure I’ve seen any evidence of it existing though, is it just a Boogeyman, or so something that happened a while back? An in joke of some sort?

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    Lemmy is founded and developed by two communists and anti-US persons as a commy friendly alternative of Reddit. They also admin two (?) Lemmy instances.

    I assume that after people from Reddit migrated it becomes more balanced. But still, reading news and comments in “technology” communities I feel like I read “anti-corporporate”, not technology topics.

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        Well, I was talking about technology communities, not Foss.

        And even for foss, it can and should be pro Foss, and not anti-corpiration - this is much more productive and inspiring. Like Lemmy itself must be busy with its own things instead of fixating on hating Reddit.

        Just IMHO.

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          Have you considered that corporations have done a lot of the legwork on their own to get people to hate them? A lot of people mistakenly treat corporations like some sort of necessary evil. They aren’t necessary.

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            If they are not nessesary just do not use their service. Suv is not a nessesary type of car - just buy another one.

            Anyway, my point was creating/discussions good things is better that focusing on hating thinks you do not like.

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              That is not remotely a cogent comparison. Do you understand the difference between unavoidable and necessary? Falling on to rocks from a decent height, getting impaled is unavoidable. But it isn’t necessary.

              Likewise, being born into a hell hole that destroyed it’s cities and communities by prioritizing accommodations for cars over people. Cars are unavoidable, not necessary.

              Capitalism is exploitative and unavoidable currently. Especially if you have resources a capitalist wants. Even if you mind your own business, they will come in. Attack you and rob you just to get what they want.

              The timeline of human history dwarfs the timeline of capitalism and corporations. We’ve gotten by for most of human history without capitalism and corporations. An indoctrinated capitalists like yourself would argue however that capitalism and corporations gave us industry and a lot of the things we currently enjoy. To which I would immediately deflate your balloon by pointing out that Russia and other countries that weren’t capitalist also industrialized at the same time. Keep in mind none of this is praise of Lenin his ideology or any of the countries that claimed to follow it. Simply pointing out the willful ignorance and lack of education on the part of capitalist fan boys.

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      Yes. Protecting tankies is explicitly part of the original purpose of Lemmy. It’s almost like the anti-Parler/Gab/Voat, in that it was made by left-wing people as a haven for political views that would be too radical to be tolerated on the mainstream platforms:

      Leftists know that our position on these platforms is tenuous at best; we’re currently tolerated, but that will not always be the case.

      …Naturally, this meant that it ended up attracting people who unironically identify as “leftist” while cheerleading the genocidal imperialist war led by the right-leaning conservative United Russia Party of the RF, or the also-rather-genocidal ethnocratic state capitalism of the PRC.