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this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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Oh wow. A mod doing mod things for the benefit of the community.
What a rare sight.
Does this really count as moderation?
Yes. They are amending a post to include accessibility options for the community and pinning it as top comment for visibility. It is a form of moderation through addition. Moderation isn't just punitive actions.
Legend
Also, the bar is owned by a nazi.
as Jimmy Carr pointed out, he's not a nazi, he's South African, which is ... well ...
He did two Nazi salutes in front of the whole country. I don't think there's any doubt that he's a Nazi.
Feels particularly relevant after all the Stonetoss and Jago entries recently.
Who the fuck is still polluting the internet with Stonetoss?
Oh, yes, nazis obviously, okay, point taken.
Plenty of people don't know he's a Nazi and only see the amogus and other innocuous stuff
That particular person in here knows, because even if they didn't before (doubtful) they were told, and then said they didn't care because they're "separating the art from the artist".
That doesn't apply when every piece of art is just "fascism good" lol
Problem is not all of them were, and they mostly picked the less obvious ones.
Anyway, separating art from artist is always a tough call, but personally I don't believe in it for people that are still currently alive and doing shit with the attention (and/or money) they get.
I can get into the Cthulhu mythos (especially as a foundation for other stuff), but I won't touch anything from J.K. Rowling.
I did it once accidentally π«’
I don't use Instagram anymore thankfully
Half the seats at the bar are filled with mannequins, but that makes the bar feel crowded, like it's still the happenin' spot. That convinces a lot of brands, celebrities, politicians and journalists that they still need to keep making appearances at the bar.
And then one of the mannequins glides towards you and starts telling you about they just love th3 delicious taste of an ice cold Coca Cola^TM^ and accept no substitutes.
Suddenly, in sync, a lot of the "people" in the bar say in unison "As a strong black woman, I think president Trump is right about..."
Also, here are all the AI people for some reason. Also, politicians and journalists who never left.
I know an AI guy who still uses Xitter. I asked him why he doesn't use Mastodon or Bluesky. He says he tried Bluesky, but there's no AI content there. The AI people tried to move to Bluesky, but they got bullied off the website because people hate AI.
Huh, before I deactivated my Bluesky account, I'd still see AI slop content slip through my filter on the rare occasion.
He meant people talking about AI. AI science and finance stuff.
Didnβt ban is a strange way to say welcome with open arms.
I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."
And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed
Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them."
And i was like, ohok and he continues.
"you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.
And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.
And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people."
And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.
You should give attribution. I've for sure read this before, and it's clearly what the cartoon is referring to.
Wow, that's insidious.
And also a great example of why local curmudgeons tend to be some of my favorite people lol
Neat, copy paste from... 2000s? A classic
Still a fair amount of people who know X is a nazi bar but still use it.
- X is too popular / addictive
- Alternatives are considered non-viable on a recommendation and feed algorithm basis
- There are ideological barriers to alternatives. (Lemmy is an example)
There is a problem with this argument somehow. We are also a Nazi bar here on the Threadiverse, just with alternative-facts-using so-called "leftist" tankies rather than alternative-facts-using right-wing Nazis, yet we routinely ignore this fact. Tankies call for the literal genocide of everyone currently living in a Western civilization - i.e. they want me, you, and pretty much everyone we've ever met to die since we collaborate with their enemy by participating in capitalism. Anyone who has a bank account or pays rent is part of this.
But we are still here, despite knowing this? Lemmy.zip still federates with hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, and lemmy.ml. Ideological purity takes a backseat to practical convenience it would seem, everywhere you go. The Threadiverse is still better than Reddit, and Mastodon/Friendica/etc. still better than Xhitter/Facebook/etc. Despite the fact that we platform Nazis (in our case tankies) - heck, a lot of people here have literally sent actual funding to them, and it would seem that a large fraction of that funding goes to spreading their message rather than development of the Lemmy source code.
See e.g. https://lemmy.zip/post/37753269.
Japan is a huge user of twitter, only country with more users is the US
its basically reddit.
We have a saying, if you are at a table with nine Nazi's... There are ten Nazi's at the table.
Speak up.
So we are all tankies, here in this Lemmy community.
Lemmy is a tankie bar.
Tankies defeated the German fascists, the Italian fascists, the Ukrainian fascists, and the Japanese ones. America supported the German fascists until very late, it's sending billions of dollars worth of weapons to Nazis in Ukraine, is sending hundreds of billions of weapons to Israel which is committing a genocide against a semite population. So are you a Nazi, a Nazi supporter, or do you just not know?
only if you go to tankie instances or respond to tankie accounts. they can easily be blocked.
Untrue - that's not how federation via the ActivityPub Protocol works. e.g. I see content from hexbear hosted on Lemmy today (example). Even if hexbear ceased to exist today, its content would live on forever at Lemmy.today and all of the other places that federated with it.
Also, you can block Nazis while using Xhitter, so your statement detracts from the discussion by entirely ignoring the point. Not all of life's issues can be solved by 5-word one-liners
