It has been proposed a few times I guess, and while Lemmy.ml seems to be not actively hostile against “us”, I would say it is very much in line with the anarchist idea to decentralize and become self-sufficient.
However so far no one seems to have stepped up to actually run such an instance, or am I overlooking something?
I personally have thought about it (I have a quirky 3 letter domain name that I would find fitting and also run my own servers), but to be honest I am not deeply embedded in the anarchist community (more of an anacho-individualist in that sense, despite being in favor of syndicalism in theory) and probably also have some other unpopular opinions in some ways. I am also a somewhat grumpy old white male not very keen on moderating community drama.
tl;dr: I think it would be cool to have something like that, but I fear that me starting (and mostly running) it would soon not be very popular and I am also hesitant having to deal with the likely hassle of running something like that.
No you didn’t. You claimed (without any proof) that they have expressed certain believes and implied that they are terrible persons because of that. No single behavior (= action) was even mentioned by you.
Then read again what I wrote. I criticized concrete action:
All words, not action. And also (from what I have seen of their writing) not accurate, but lets agree to disagree on that part.
downplaying and justifying genocide is a concrete action.
What do you mean it’s just words? As in: Nazis organize hate campaigns online, aren’t actually doing something, because it’s just works.
What? Is this your analysis, really?
No, my analysis is that looking at anarchist presence here on lemmy.ml, there is no active hostility by the administrators. Nothing more and nothing less.
And despite your quite ad-hominem way of arguing and open criticism (by you and others) of some of the apparent political believes of lemmy.ml administrators, they have been quite tolerant and have not acted against “us”. So for the time being lets return that in kind and be reasonable guests.
and this invalidates the observation that they engaged in downplaying and justifying genocide somewhere else. How so?
It is simply besides the point. And you also have not shown any kind of proof for it. From what I have read that seems like hyperbole of some much less problematic but still questionable believes of them.
As long as you state that downplaying and justifying genocide is only words and no action that is trouble some, there’s no way anyone could proof you their trouble some behaviour of downplaying and justifying genocide.
You just invalidated any critism of that kind, and what is invalid can’t be proofen to you. So it’s just pointless to do, until you reflect and change your position.
Proof is as simple as linking here a definite “downplaying and justifying genocide” by the lemmy.ml administrators.
What I am saying is that I have not seen them “downplaying and justifying genocide”, and what I have seen them doing was merely disagreeable words in a political debate.
Lets please stay with the facts and not some hyperbole ad hominem attacks.
Here’s a reflection of your behavior in this conversation:
me: state they engage in downplaying and justifying genocide.
you: that’s against rule 3, you should not say this
me: how else to criticize specific behavior without naming also what it’s about? seems like just an intend to silence criticism.
you: you don’t criticize behavior
me: yes I do criticize their behavior for downplaying and justifying genocide.
you: What they do is only words, no behavior/action
me: no, it is obviously behavior/action that I criticize
you: let’s stop this here.
me: well, what did I said at the beginning. Silencing criticism. Have a day where you’ll find some time to reflect, hopefully. cu