Hey boss, I am sorry to hear this. Would you be open to transferring the administration of the server to someone else, such as myself? I’m not currently equipped to handle it but I could probably figure it out by November. I am part of the admin team at sh.itjust.works and I believe we could fold it into our operation fairly easily.

I think you make good and valid points, but I personally value the smaller Lemmy servers quite highly, and this one is obviously particularly close to my heart. As things currently stand, this server doesn’t have very many active users, but I would still feel pretty bad about losing those or forcing them to start new accounts. And to be fair, this is actually the 54th largest Lemmy server by active users and has over 600 total accounts, although most are currently inactive. That’s a pretty significant number of people, although it might not seem like a lot compared to millions.

Basically, my overall point is that I think this server still has a lot of value as a part of the overall threadiverse ecosystem, and I would hate to see that disappear for something as easy to fix as lack of funds or time. I totally get if you want to move on, but please consider letting the server live on under new management. Or alternatively, continue to be involved but accept some assistance in the financial or technical aspects of running this place. It’s ultimately your decision, but I wanted to throw in my perspective because I have already seen too many Lemmy servers shut down and it pains me each time. And this time I figured I might be able to make a difference.

Bovine Joni

Fair enough

FWIW, I had nothing to do with this and I’m sorry this happened to you.

But also, you didn’t rebuke me, I wasnt even aware of that comment until somebody notified me about this post and I followed the link above. Usually when you rebuke someone, you reprimand them directly. That was just you talking ill of me in a completely random thread with 14 upvotes that I obviously never would have seen unless I was stalking your comment history. But you’re clearly trying to paint a certain picture with this post, so I understand why you phrased it that way.

Regarding my ban for transphobic comments, I’d just like to note that the comments in question were in defense of statements made by Nutomic. So whatever judgments you make about me and my server should logically apply to lemmy.ml as well. Let’s also keep in mind that the comments were not made on a dbzer0 community, but they decided to blanket permaban me regardless. Here is the thread in question.

Also, you can see that I never did anything about this user. The name of this community has become so ironic it’s wild. I’m quite possibly the least power tripping moderator on Lemmy, you can literally tell me to kill myself and you won’t even get banned.

Lastly, I’d like to encourage all of the users who upvoted this post and commented here, as well as OP, to reassess what just happened. You’re passing sweeping moral judgments and making significant decisions based on “information” that is purely imaginary. You aren’t even doing the bare minimum of diligence to verify whether the post that you are reading is actually true. The actual evidence is non-existent, and even the circumstantial evidence makes very little sense if you think about it for a second.

I know you’ll probably just call me a liar but maybe somebody will actually re-evaluate their behavior for once. I bear no ill will towards you or anyone, I simply try to identify what I believe to be true, and fight back against people when they spread falsehoods. One of those falsehoods was when people were calling Nutomic transphobic, and I thought that was untrue. Now I’m banned for being transphobic. Surely you can figure out how this chain of events ends, with an echo chamber where anyone who questions the narrative is immediately exiled. It’s not a wise course of action, IMHO.

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Don’t do it bro. Life sucks sometimes but it sounds like you got plenty to live for. I think if you let the people in your life know how much you are struggling, they could probably help you. You’re not alone. And you don’t need to be some perfect person, nobody else is perfect either.

I’ll be praying for you. You can DM me if you need someone to talk to. ❤️

Also please read this

https://theconversation.com/silent-but-not-serene-what-science-says-about-nitrogen-death-267692

I find this angle of resistance to AI interesting, it’s not one that I had thought much about until now. But it actually seems pretty persuasive.

My fundamental reticence about AI has always been driven by my concern for its impacts on human society. But one could also argue that it might be irresponsible and potentially abusive of the AI themselves. Tbh I would probably have to disagree if you’re talking about AI as it is currently, but it’s still a valid argument in general.

So I don’t fully agree with you, but I definitely want to acknowledge that you’re making some fascinating points and I think some people down voting could stand to lighten up and have a polite intellectual disagreement without being rude.

But the DNC is already entirely ineffective. We are already losing every single time we vote for either major party. Even when the Dems are in office, they appear incapable or unwilling to accomplish meaningful progressive political objectives, so we are slipping further into fascism anyway, no?

This has been the status quo for generations already, how long does it have to continue before we cut our losses and make a risky gambit? I just don’t understand what you think the DNC is protecting us from, because in my view they are also part of the problem.

Teddy Roosevelt got 27% in 1912 with the Bull Moose party. Not sure if that counts as modern history.

It’s true that a third party candidate would be a major long shot but fuck it, what do we have to lose?

Global warming began before humanity started burning fossil fuels.

Do you think Planet Earth would be doing just as badly if humans had never started burning fossil fuels?

Because clearly you’re implying the famine would have been nearly as bad if the CCP never started killing sparrows.

It’s laughably easy to brush aside your counterarguments because your position is inherently irrational and based on emotion.

Killing the sparrows made it worse

the famine would have happened under the Kuomintang had the nationalists won the civil war

Pure, unfettered cope. It’s amazing that you know how events would have unfolded in an alternative timeline where the CCP didn’t exterminate billions of sparrows. Your mastery of ecological science must be exceptional, I’m sure you’ve run the numbers on this and come up with a data-driven model that demonstrates the truth of your argument. Surely you wouldn’t make such a claim without having copious amounts of statistical/historical/ecological evidence to support said claim.

Secondly, nobody is siding with you here. Imagine this neutral party all you want, they don’t exist at the moment.

Smartest thing you’ve said all day, neutrals don’t really exist on this platform. I’m aware of that, discussions such as these are more useful for me to develop and work through my own positions and rhetorical techniques for exposing sophists and ideologues.

Life expectancy still managed to double under Mao, that’s how horribly underdeveloped China was, and a famine under those circumstances of underdevelopment was something common prior to the communists. It was the work of the communists that stopped famine for good in China.

Holy copium batman 😂

A famine on the scale of the Great Famine, largely self inflicted by the federal government, was an entirely singular and unprecedented event. To attempt to portray the Great Famine as a common historical event or anything other than a tremendous black mark against the government which presided over it is clear evidence of bias on your part. Everybody makes mistakes, but the anatomy of the Great Famine was clearly the direct result of decisions made by the CCP that would never have been made under a different, less authoritarian political system.

I’d have to imagine that any neutral party reading through these comments will have gotten plenty of confirmation that my assessment of you is correct, in that your blind adherence to communism as a panacea prevents you from understanding or engaging with reality in objective, rational terms. Good day sir.

You didn’t back up that claim with anything other than vibes, though.

I don’t need to, I’m not the one focusing all my energy on converting people to communism without having any evidence of whether my methods are actually effective, or indeed, whether communism itself is effective.

Hahaha it’s like when the CCP exterminated all the sparrows in China to protect the crops. It wasn’t until millions of people started dying from starvation that they realized sparrows actually play a major role in controlling insect populations, and their idiotic extermination campaign had the opposite effect of what they intended. Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree I guess. Shoot first ask questions later mindset.

Oh, or it’s also like when the CCP instituted the one-child policy, only to belatedly realize decades later that they had inadvertently created a massive demographic crisis that has only begun to unfold recently. It’s almost like blind adherence to ideology to the exclusion of one’s ability to dispassionately examine the available evidence causes one to make bad, self-destructive decisions. Who knew? Certainly not communists.

The fact that the absolute number of comrades has risen due to my interactions means it’s a net positive.

Citation needed

You haven’t even responded to my point that you’re actively pushing more people away from communism than vice versa.

How can you think it’s important and necessary if you can’t even define what it is?

it has useful benefits and consistent practical knowledge developed by past communists and socialists to aid in reaching this end.

Does it? Can you give some examples of these benefits and this practical knowledge?

I’ll go first. It is necessary to eliminate opposing political parties and ideologies to ensure the viability of any communist state.

It’s not a strawman, it’s a realistic appraisal of your position based on the evidence of your actions. Just because you prefer to deny it verbally when it’s laid out in front of you like that doesn’t make it any less true.

If you don’t believe communism is anything special or noteworthy, then you wouldn’t spend your entire life on a fringe online forum attempting to convert a few dozen edgy teenagers.

You have a remarkable capacity for doublethink, which partially explains why you find communism so attractive as an ideology.

Thank you for calling my language flowery though, it’s nice to be appreciated 🙃

I would just block and move on if I were you. Although I don’t hold myself to that same standard because sometimes I can’t resist interacting either, so I guess I can’t really criticize you too much.

Usually I try to just speak my piece and dip though, whereas you tend to get fully drawn into discussions with extremists much more frequently and extensively than myself, and indeed seem to seek such interactions out. Just seems like a waste of energy and not particularly beneficial for your mental well-being.

Communism isn’t a deus ex machina that would make all human beings instantaneously happy if they were to simply accept it unquestioningly. For that matter, communism isn’t a comprehensive ideology at all, it’s more of a collection of theorems regarding the socioeconomic development and structure of society, many of which contradict one another.

It’s like a Christian who thinks they are inherently doing good by converting others to Christianity. You are taking a handful of decent theoretical ideas and imbuing them with the significance of divine revelation. Furthermore, you are arrogantly presuming that your flawed understanding of communism is the real communism, and discounting the possibility that other “communists” can easily interpret the ideology in such a way as to justify killing you due to your flawed understanding of communism. It’s an incredibly naive position that doesn’t withstand the most basic scrutiny.

Think about it like liberalism. The American and French revolutionaries claimed moral authority because they were overthrowing the hierarchical structures of feudalism and replacing them with republicanism, democracy, free trade, etc.

In retrospect, we can easily observe that these ideas and political movements, despite nominally being constructed to protect and enhance the freedom and equitability of human beings, have in reality created conditions which have massively infringed on the self-declared natural rights of human beings in ways that a feudal hierarchy could never have dreamed of accomplishing.

Likewise, even if society were to globally transition to communism, that would simply raise new problems and abuses of power that would need to be combated. In conclusion, “creating more comrades” is a futile and naive goal.

Additionally, there is a very convincing argument to be made that you have potentially pushed more people away from communism than drawn people towards communism, and you would obviously have no way of knowing whether or not that is true. From where I’m sitting, I see a lot more users who have blocked you and your ilk than those who have joined you, and my personal opinion of communism has grown significantly less favorable since I began encountering you people on Lemmy a few years back. But what do I know, I’m a dirty non-communist so therefore all of my thoughts and actions are clearly incorrect and evil in comparison to the enlightened and ethical behaviors of any individual who happens to adopt the moniker of communist.

God, ignorance really is bliss. What I would give to be simple-minded enough that I could ascribe a positive ethical value to something as utterly meaningless as “creating more comrades”.

I like to comfort myself by imagining that both of you are paid actors who make a living sowing discontent on Lemmy to prevent any chance of mainstream success for the platform.

Sadly, my rational assessment of the human condition compels me to believe that you are both entirely genuine, and just extremely confused and solipsistic. If you are indeed engaging in good faith, then I would pose the question of what you hope to accomplish by engaging in these idiotic, endless faux-debates.

Realistically, there is no arbitrator here; you are both entirely able to move the goalposts, recruit spurious evidence, ignore counterpoints, and generally make a mockery of a legitimate debate. Furthermore, you have a miniscule audience on this platform, greatly limiting the possibility of influencing third parties. Therefore, the only possible outcome of this interaction would be the outcome which has already been repeated ad infinitum on Lemmy and social media in general, namely the mutual exchange of insults, poorly constructed arguments, and badly sourced data.

What an interesting way to spend one’s life. As I said initially, it would be less painful to witness if I believed that you were accomplishing something such as the general suppression of Lemmy as a social media platform by creating a climate of negativity and conflict (even though I oppose that goal).

But realistically you are probably like the vast majority of people in that you are hopelessly incapable of judging the impact of your actions on the world and/or yourself, and you simply prefer to follow your baser instincts rather than take a step back and consider if there might be a more efficacious method of achieving your purported goals. Gives major punching a brick wall energy.

Medal*

Gooner pro tip, nice