PorkrollPosadist

Steve Huffman commends you on upholding his moderation policy.

Can they delete this?

Such slander doesn’t deserve any response and is best left ignored.

Trotsky has sent in a silly letter. We shall neither print it nor reply to him

This is a good point. This shit happens on Reddit and Twitter too, but when it happens there it's a brief meeting at corporate HQ followed by a swift ban wave. The extended drama is a consequence of the fact that no individual holds that power.

It is definitely inducing cognitive dissonance. The developers are simply are communists trying to collectivize social media, and that will live in their heads rent free as long as they stick around.

Why will they not federate with others, I need to see them all charge into Beehaw and Midwest Social, even if its only a day before they are taken off,

The short answer to this question is that it will require some robust discussion before a decision is made. At this point, no decision has been made one way or another.

They could be pulling something sneaky here. The vast majority of people lurk, and most people who lurk probably don't even have accounts. If you haven't bothered to sign up, you probably haven't bothered to use the old interface or a third party application. It wouldn't surprise me if the vast majority of their traffic comes through the standard web interface, even if the stats for user activity paint a different picture.

Anti-sectarianism is the general rule. The community is predominantly Marxist, but has its share of Anarchists. There is no official list of points of unity, but anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, anti-racism, anti-gender/sexuality discrimination are basically non-negotiable.

I can only speak for myself, but my sentiment is that the left in the imperial core is so disorganized that the majority of sectarian disagreements are purely hypothetical and stupid to get worked up over. We can have discussions about theory and tactics, but there is no reason to assemble the perfect party platform and get into bitter fights about its nuances when there is no party to speak of. You can't build the mass line without the mass.

Of course, this doesn't apply to the type of historically illiterate, American-exceptionalist Reddit "Anarchists," or any of that PatSoc MAGA Communism bullshit. People stanning the Shining Path will probably get a lot of weird looks. We give the handful of Trots their fair share of noogies, but we don't exclude them.

It is a relatively small community. If you are comment in good faith and demonstrate you aren't full of imperialist brainworms you will probably be fine. If you pick out individual people with the dumbest takes and graft that onto broad movements, putting words in peoples' mouths, you might run into trouble. We love dunking on people with bad takes, but if you take a particular Bellingcat dropout's cringepost and act like they are the designated spokesperson of Anarchism, that's the kind of thing that doesn't fly. Basically, don't be disingenuous.

We're not the type of community that will ban somebody for mentioning in passing that they participate in mutual aid on the basis that mutual aid is charity and therefor not praxis. That kind of hair-splitting dogmatism can stay on Reddit as far as we're concerned.

The way I see it, this isn't really a step backwards. On the centralized platforms, our communities get banned and their ashes get scattered to the winds. On the fediverse, we get blacklisted by large instances operated by liberals, but our communities remain intact and can still network with one another directly. We are also protected from ideologically hostile admins quietly picking off our comrades one by one.