cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/72685299
I discovered this after upgrading our instance yesterday, which also upgraded all frontends to their latest versions as well. After I did, our Tesseract frontend stopped working and I noticed immediately as it’s been my primary for a while. Initially I thought it was an API version mismatch, but no, it was much worse.
Someone pointed out that the developer of the frontend added an explicit hidden and unmodifiably blacklist which includes any and all instances to the left of Kissinger. There’s a commit which also explains their specious reasoning about our instance specifically, as it seems we’ve been on their shit list for a bit longer than that.
This instance and its admin staff encourages identity politics, groupthink, mob mentality, and extremist solutions to societal problems. Users who advocate violence are not moderated so long as the admins agree with the target. Caution and critical thinking are advised when interacting with this instance or its users.
When you use tesseract to connect to one blacklisted such instance , you just get a message informing you that Tesseract is “incompatible with that instance” which leads one to think of a technical issue, like an API mismatch, rather than the dev being an opinionated coward.
Isn’t it funny how all the software developed by turbolibs, like Piefed and Tesseract, end up with hidden control mechanisms from developers who think they know better than everyone else? That they don’t just think they deserve to tell you what you should think, but they should manipulate you to think it? Isn’t it funny how libs go on about how bad it is to support lemmy due to the ideology of the devs behind it, and yet lemmy has 0 opinions as a software? It does make one think…
Anyway, I forked - it as one does - and disabled the blacklist, but since this is a massively ideologically compromised software, I’ll doubt I’ll keep this frontend up after Lemmy 1.0. I think we’ll bring up mlmym again now that someone’s maintaining it again.
That’s complete BS mate lol
What part, and how so?
All of it. Every part. Because it’s wrong.
Socialism will never be “right wing”. This is the problem with you full on leftists - you think moving further left makes everything to your right “right wing”, when all that has really happened is you’ve gone even further down the communist hell hole.
Why would socialism not be right wing in a communist society? If we advance to fully collectivized production and distribution, and a stateless, classess society, reintroducing class, the state, and decentralized production would be reactionary and take us backwards.
Left and right based political standing are not based on going in some perceived “forwards” or “backwards” direction. Communism is a giant leap backwards because it is a system that has been proven to not work every single time it has been done. It ends in an elite ruling class and extreme poverty and death for everyone else.
Being to the right of the far, far left doesn’t make something “right”.
Can you state how these terms, left and right, came into being and what they meant?
“Leftism” as a concept originated in the revolutionary side of the French Revolution. Leftism is inherently tied to forward progress. As for socialism (which you call communism), it has worked dramatically well every single time it has been established. It has resulted in removal of the former capitalist and landlord classes from power, and a dramatic uplifting in the lives of the working classes. Your assessment is utterly detached from actual historical evidence.
I didn’t call socialism communism. I called communism communism.
Which socialist or communist countries are there right now?
How did Stalin’s Soviet Union go?
Maoist China?
Cuba?
North Korea?
Venezuela?
Raging successes I assume?
Communism is a global, fully collectivized system of production and distribution devoid of classes, the state, and money. It’s a post-socialist mode of production and distribution. You are referring to socialist countries that have been run by communist parties.
In any case, I’ll answer in order.
The Soviet Union was a resounding success for the working classes, the reward for their triumph over capital being doubled life expectancies, tripled literacy rates to 99.9%, dramatic improvements to housing quality and a near eradication of homelessness, free and high quality education and healthcare, unprecedented equality of the sexes, and stable economic growth up until its dissolution. It was gradually undermined by reforms that split the socialist system against itself, a lesson other socialist states have learned from.
The PRC is the world’s largest economy by PPP, the longest standing socialist country, and is continuing it’s path to developing higher and higher levels of socialism. The populace recieved many similar benefits to those in the USSR, and unlike the USSR they are becoming the clear world power. Socialism is presenting itself as the only logical path forward thanks to their success.
Cuba is struggling. Though they have done a tremendous amount thanks to their socialist system, decades of brutal blockades and sabotage by the world’s largest empire have left it woefully underdeveloped. Thanks to partnership with comrades in China, they are rapidly developing solar power, and therefore energy independence.
The DPRK is stronger than ever before. Thanks to their policy of nuclear deterrence, they have been able to peacefully develop their socialist system and gradually minimize the stark divide between the developed and underdeveloped portions of the region. Trade with Russia and China has resulted in an economic boom, brought upon by sanctions on Russia in the wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Venezuela was never governed by a communist party. It never solidified socialism either. It’s currently in retreat after the US Empire kidnapped their democratically elected president, and are recovering from economic terrorism by the US combined with the fallout from Earthquakes.
You didn’t mention them, but Vietnam and Laos are doing well now as well.
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China is not a socialist/communist country. It’s a mix of communism and capitalism. They’re super authoritarian and brutal though, so….yay?
You’re absolutely delusional. There’s not a well functioning country in the world that is socialist/communist.
Communism isn’t a global system btw.
You’re arguing with a communist and an authoritarian. Anything right of Stalin is considered right-wing.
Cowbee is deep in that camp. You will get nowhere with him.
Ah ok thanks for the heads up. Won’t waste my time.