this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
70 points (96.1% liked)

Technology

965 readers
22 users here now

A tech news sub for communists

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml
70
How Lemmy's Communist Devs Saved It (coship.bloggi.co)
submitted 10 months ago by lemat_87@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml
18 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Marx to other Reddit alternatives: I fucking told you!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] RedWizard@lemmygrad.ml 43 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"The tankie migration..." ๐Ÿค”

[โ€“] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 39 points 10 months ago

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

[โ€“] sovietknuckles@hexbear.net 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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?

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Might be referring to r/genZedong/ getting quarantined, that's when we had a big influx of comrades here.

[โ€“] Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I just realized the portmanteau "gen Zedong" makes less sense to Americans because they pronounce it zee.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago

haha yeah that doesn't have the same ring to it

[โ€“] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As an american, I'm now confused. How should it be pronounced?

[โ€“] GrainEater@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"z" is typically "zed" in Bri'ish English

[โ€“] RedClouds@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago

Ahhh, Okay.

So I would normally say 'gen zee dong', but its really 'gen "zed"-ong'.

[โ€“] CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 months ago

"Jen zee dong" still works in real English.