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I've been one of the people saying "we don't need more users. we need quality over quantity" and i was wrong.

the way it's going, lemmy needs active users who post content sothat the network stays relevant. networks like the fediverse benefit from network effects and that means that if we have more users, that improves the value and quality of the fediverse overall.

So please, everyone, when you can, make advertisement for the fediverse in your personal area. Go talk to friends, make attractive stickers and put them everywhere, stuff like that. We would all benefit from it.

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[–] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but the russia and china authoritarian love and glazing sucks.

[–] Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

People over on Hexbear don't love Russia. I myself have posted news articles on Russian authorities enjailing marxists and they got widely popular in Hexbear.

As for China, I'd argue they're not more authoritarian than most developed countries. I'm a Spaniard, my state has political prisoners for pro-Catalonian independence actions such as promoting a referendum for independence. The most leftist party to appear in decades fell into oblivion recently because the state police apparatus manufactured false evidence of corrupt funding of said party (Podemos) by Venezuela and Iran, and leaked these false police reports to all media, which echoed it nonstop for months.

[–] pugnaciousfarter@literature.cafe 3 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

Can you make posts/comments criticizing china, russia and the various horrific shit perpetrated by dictators of said country?

My one issue with tankies is that. Otherwise I openly welcome leftist ideas.

[–] Cowbee_Admirer@reddthat.com 1 points 14 hours ago

Can you make posts/comments criticizing china, russia

If they're nuanced, yes. "China bad" is not accepted, but there's plenty of criticism of China in Hexbear. A Chinese member called Xiaohongshu routinely posts comments and critiques of Chinese policy, such as failing to leave neoliberalism behind and maintaining dollar hegemony for its own benefit. There's also been big criticism recently for the lack of material support to Venezuela against US imperialist invasion. What's not accepted is "vuvuzela no iPhone", "tinyman square" or "ruzzians are bloodthirsty orcs", and it's honestly refreshing.

I've discussed this at length, but I'll try and explain myself here too: the problem is not that Marxists don't want representation of the mistakes and bad policies that did happen in Actually Existing Socialist countries. The problem is that they're overmagnified and given extremely long coverage and attention whereas western atrocities, by all means much more violent and deadly, are just brushed off and not discussed. The problem is not that people discuss gulags and gulag victims, we should totally do that. The problem is that for every gulag museum there should be 10 colonialism museums because colonialism murdered hundreds of millions. Until there isn't this proportional representation, you must understand why Marxists are fed up with discussion exclusively of socialist bad policies.