Today the first of Feb is Global Switch day, Spread awareness of the Fediverse in your communities.
this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2026
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It's honestly bonkers to have a community hosted on Lemmy this hostile to Lemmy as software and the developers.
Because so many keep getting told it's by tankies and stop thinking immediately after that
Is this bait? There is hardly any hostility here towards the software and the Lemmy devs want to push the world towards being an authoritarian hellscape. If anything they dont get enough shit.
The user is from .ml, it's a bad-faith post imo.
The user has been on this platform since 2020, long before .world existed and .dbzer0 was a twinkle in dbzer0's eye. Yes, the user chooses to stay on the instance that gets updated first and stays federated with all of .world, PieFed, and also the lifeboat chapo community that did and has continued to produce the funniest leftist content on the platform.
I've been in this comm for years. It's the number one organizing spot for anti-lemmy developers to push their alternatives. There was a Java one before PieFed took off. And when you look under the surface, the reasons these are developed are pretty much always because anti-communism.
You see it's actually people like y'all that scream "witch" at users, accuse them of interacting with bad faith, and spread FUD in this platform.
Are you referring to !fediverse@lemmy.world? This wasn't posted by the mods.
This comm is often full of comments pushing lemmy alternatives, with PieFed being the new frontrunner.
You'd think the post here would include Lemmy, which I believe is still the most active platform
But it's the same platform! They all interoperate!
Piefed sometimes makes it hard to interoperate: https://communick.news/comment/8015757
I understand, but most of us are here from the efforts of all those who built Lemmy and it was deliberately left off here as an alternative
Isn't that because people are canceling it for some reason? I haven't kept up with it enough to form an opinion, but I understand a lot of people want to ditch the project over something they don't like about the dev(s).
The devs are Marxist-Leninists. They administrate the .ml instance with that in mind, and they will often ban or strictly moderate low effort anti-China content like depicting Xi as Winnie the Pooh (they see this as racist because yellow bear) and spam posts about Tienanmen Square. I've seen people claim they are pro-Russia, but most of what I've seen would fall under anti-NATO opinions than pro-Russia. I have never gotten the impression that Putin is popular in .ml, hexbear, or lemmygrad.
But they really just stick to their instance and don't push their politics on the software's development.
Yeah I agree, its all the same TBH.
People on Lemmy don't need to be told about Lemmy though?
People on Lemmy don't really need to be told about most of these. What's your point? You and I both know this image was made for people outside Lemmy. In fact, it was updated to remove Lemmy
Deb's a tankie with the most bullshit oppinions ever seen on earth.
Not true.
Demonstrably true. Try saying anything contrary to a tankie talking point on .ml and see how long before you get banned. May I suggest “Russia was wrong for invading Ukraine” for starters, or “China committed unjustifiable atrocities against peaceful protestors”.
Russia was wrong for invading Ukraine.
In fact, Russia is an expansionist state with rampant nationalism and homophobia and led by an obvious fascist. I support the political autonomy of Ukrainians.
Catch me in the modlogs.
Now, I believe all of that, but I can also believe that there are geopolitical forces making the situation more nuanced and complex
You're replying to one of the Lemmy devs. Hearing them say it's not true when they literally run .ml as a tankie community is hilarious.
Who is deb?
Developer