• ShaggySnacks
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    9 hours ago

    I think it’s hilarious that there is a bidding war that has been driving the bid up.

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    12 hours ago

    Stop giving them attention. That’s the only thing they care about. If a tankie wants to have a ‘debate’ with you just say ‘ok’ and move on.

    They have no power or any effect on anything. By making them seem bigger than they really are (some niche leftist nutjobs) you only attract new cultists looking to sate their moral superiority kink.

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    14 hours ago

    yep this is a downside to being on a federated server run by some rando.

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    I am not writing this to shit on them, but I have to appreciate the irony in the situation. Something about a communist community getting messed up by lapses in individual responsibility, or an authoritarian leaning community getting messed up by fuckups in leadership.

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    18 hours ago

    Serious question: if this happened to a popular federated instance (say Lemmy.world) and it got bought by someone malicious, what’s the worst they could do to my Lemmy feed and the Lemmy community in general?

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    1 day ago

    Hexbear isn’t worth dogshit but if someone wants to waste their money, then i wont stop them

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      If I had the money I’d buy it and replace every post with goatse.

      EDIT: wtf the insane asylum is loose. Halp

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        You’d be buying the domain name, not the lemmy instance. So if you wanted to replace every post with whatever, you’d first have to set up your own server and create a new lemmy instance for your newly purchased domain name. You’d have to take extra sets then to mangle your lemmy instance such that it didn’t show the real posts but instead showed what you wanted…

        In the end that technical work would be more expensive than the domain name… and probably not worth the effort for a short-lived and mean-spirited joke.

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        21 hours ago

        yes let’s sexually harass all those people depending on our mutual aid comm. you’re so righteous.

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            I don’t know if you’re talking about me, but if so i am not western, and hating on MLism isn’t anti-left lmao.

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              Hating on a major branch of leftist thought isn’t technically anti-all left, but it’s still left punching. Trying to say Marxism-Leninism isn’t left is just purity testing nonsense.

              I dunno, if you consider yourself a leftist I think you’d be doing a much better service attacking right-wingers, especially now that there’s a huge rise of literal Nazis in Western countries, than attacking branches of leftism you personally disagree with. It’s entirely understandable why people would question your motives if you decide to dedicate a good portion of your personal time to anti-communism.

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              Yes of course, real leftism is when you exclusively punch left and encourage spending money to highjack leftists spaces to redirect them to right wing neo liberal ones.