This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but kbin generally requires its users to be either unaware it is written in PHP or OK with using something written in PHP. That has to exert some selective pressure.
I have no clue where the word comes from, but my understanding is that it’s a hyper-authoritarian communist. Think Stalin or Mao Zedong. The kind of person who’s not afraid to start a genocide or a famine if it means the people dying of starvation are capitalists. You’ll usually see them defending or denying the crimes of the people I listed earlier plus others. Pol Pot is a good example.
I too have been called a tankie on here which is very strange considering I’m a bit less of a leftist than the majority on here.
It seems to come from 1950s “British political rhetoric”, the country that blessed us with The Sun, the Daily Mirror, and similar gems. Basically a slur.
Why not both? They make fun of the technical knowledge of a userbase, you respond by insulting them directly for the non-technical ideology held by someone twice removed (while, coincidentally, providing an example for their point).
I even explicitly called out my statement as tongue-in-cheek, so it’s not to be taken 100% seriously. And full disclosure: I myself am not a PHP developer, but much worse: a PowerShell developer, among other languages.
When I was in kbin and could see who voted because voting metadata is visible there, almost always left wing comments (e.g. supportive of trans rights) received downvotes from someone on lemmy.world while the upvotes were from multiple, varied instances. So I’m not sure kbin is the biggest problem unless things have changed since then
There are two problems: federation works best with a variety of instances of like-minded people, and people on open-registration generalistic instances abusing that to wreak havoc on other instances.
Same as Instances can fully de-federate from other instances, they should also be able to de-federate voting from “non-friendly” instances.
Is Lemmy just one instance? Or is your gotcha that if you add all of the lemmy instances together this one kbin.social instance just BARELY doesn’t account for over half of the problems people notice. Because that’s not quite the win you were going for.
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This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but kbin generally requires its users to be either unaware it is written in PHP or OK with using something written in PHP. That has to exert some selective pressure.
Says the person on a website programmed by tankies
And here comes the kbin ad hominem strawman. Didn’t take long.
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Whatever meaning it had originally is gone and it’s basically just a way to discredit anyone vaguely on the left you don’t like.
I have no clue where the word comes from, but my understanding is that it’s a hyper-authoritarian communist. Think Stalin or Mao Zedong. The kind of person who’s not afraid to start a genocide or a famine if it means the people dying of starvation are capitalists. You’ll usually see them defending or denying the crimes of the people I listed earlier plus others. Pol Pot is a good example.
I too have been called a tankie on here which is very strange considering I’m a bit less of a leftist than the majority on here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie
It seems to come from 1950s “British political rhetoric”, the country that blessed us with The Sun, the Daily Mirror, and similar gems. Basically a slur.
Maybe read the comment I responded to again
Why not both? They make fun of the technical knowledge of a userbase, you respond by insulting them directly for the non-technical ideology held by someone twice removed (while, coincidentally, providing an example for their point).
I even explicitly called out my statement as tongue-in-cheek, so it’s not to be taken 100% seriously. And full disclosure: I myself am not a PHP developer, but much worse: a PowerShell developer, among other languages.
I’ve been saying this for months. Kbin folks are just a type it seems
no u
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When I was in kbin and could see who voted because voting metadata is visible there, almost always left wing comments (e.g. supportive of trans rights) received downvotes from someone on lemmy.world while the upvotes were from multiple, varied instances. So I’m not sure kbin is the biggest problem unless things have changed since then
There are two problems: federation works best with a variety of instances of like-minded people, and people on open-registration generalistic instances abusing that to wreak havoc on other instances.
Same as Instances can fully de-federate from other instances, they should also be able to de-federate voting from “non-friendly” instances.
Can confirm Im an idiot and use kbin…
Hey don’t lump me in with idiots like this guy
So the other 55% of the time it’s a Lemmy user? I.e. the majority of the time!? There is so much irony in your post.
Is Lemmy just one instance? Or is your gotcha that if you add all of the lemmy instances together this one kbin.social instance just BARELY doesn’t account for over half of the problems people notice. Because that’s not quite the win you were going for.
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