How Lemmy's Communist Devs Saved It
How Lemmy's Communist Devs Saved It
There are various reasons Lemmy succeeded as a Reddit alternative where others failed. One of the underappreciated ones is probably that the devs were communists. I know that sounds a little strange
Marx to other Reddit alternatives: I fucking told you!
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"The tankie migration..." 🤔
Especially after the tankie migration, there were definitely some people who saw the front page and clicked away.
[Y]ou would maybe see a text post of someone mocking western reporting on the Uyghur genocide.
There was one lemmy instance that ran on ideals of free speech. [...] Honestly the owner, though definitely right wing, was a pretty chill guy, [...] Kinda unfortunate the instance died, considering people still complain about lack of ideological diversity on Lemmy.
Written by a centrist
Lemmygrad was on Lemmy since pretty much the beginning, and Hexbear joined the next year in July 2020. So who were these tankies who migrated, and when?
Might be referring to r/genZedong/ getting quarantined, that's when we had a big influx of comrades here.
I just realized the portmanteau "gen Zedong" makes less sense to Americans because they pronounce it zee.
haha yeah that doesn't have the same ring to it
As an american, I'm now confused. How should it be pronounced?
"z" is typically "zed" in Bri'ish English
Ahhh, Okay.
So I would normally say 'gen zee dong', but its really 'gen "zed"-ong'.
"Jen zee dong" still works in real English.