cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/715287
Guess where? Unironically r/Save3rdPartyApps
The Reddit search for Lemmy also gives these privacy copy-pasta as top results when searching for Lemmy. I’m still betting that Reddit employees are involved in boosting these posts.
Definition of concern trolling. As if Reddit gives a shit about your privacy either.
Reddit: You’re giving your information to strangers! You don’t know what they’ll do it with it!
Me: Weren’t you going to sell my data?
Reddit: Yeah, but that’s different! We’re a respectable adult capitalist business. These are fucking commie pinko freaks we’re talking about here!
All options that aren’t federated are just as reasonably suspect when it comes to good stewardship of your data. A federated universe means if you really are that worried about it, you can spin up your own instance and be able to trust yourself with your own data.
Also, is it really a shocker that Reddit would turn to McCarthy-era Red Scare tactics? What’s next, hiring the fucking Pinkertons like Wizards of the Coast did?
Also saying socialists are posting Nazi shit is weird. They’re, uh, not the same.
I do have concerns about this instance and Lemmy in general because of the aura of accusations, but I haven’t seen any real evidence yet.
And I wouldn’t expect to from the instance itself. If there’s heavy moderation you won’t see the dissent.
Further, even if admins are tankies…
Let’s see, which economic system has consumed the entire world? Is it communism? Because last I checked, even “communist” China has a semi-capitalist market economy. Russia is capitalist. Everywhere is capitalist.
When leftists of all stripes barely have any control of anything in the world, why the fuck would I be so worried about them and their opinions? It’s not like they’re affecting things in a big way, no, leftists are mostly silenced. Especially in the US where the right-leaning milquetoast Democrats are offered up as “the left” which is a huge fucking joke.
To quote Nancy fucking Pelosi:
“We’re capitalists, and that’s just the way it is.”
When there is a strong contingent of countries with leftist leaders emerging as strong nations that can economically compete with capitalist nations, then I’ll start to fucking worry, and that’s only if those leftists are actually violently dangerous.
Acting like the admins here on Lemmy are “dangerous” because of their political stances is the biggest fucking joke. I literally can’t take it, it’s such a fucking farce. These guys don’t control shit except their own instance of Lemmy.