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An international (English speaking) socialist Lemmy community free of the "ML" influence of instances like lemmy.ml and lemmygrad. This is a place for undogmatic shitposting and memes from a progressive, anti-capitalist and truly anti-imperialist perspective, regardless of specific ideology.

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0. Only post socialist memes


That refers to funny image macros and means that generally videos and screenshots are not allowed. Exceptions include explicitly humorous and short videos, as well as (social media) screenshots depicting a funny situation, joke, or joke picture relating to socialist movements, theory, societal issues, or political opponents. Examples would be the classic case of humorous Tumblr or Twitter posts/threads. (and no, agitprop text does not count as a meme)


1. Socialist Unity in the form of mutual respect and good faith interactions is enforced here


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cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/47968161

Yeah lemmy.cafe better than lemmy.ml....
Workaround socialists BRO

When you see someone bitching or crying about lemmy.ml or others, check theirs profiles before agreeing,

FIY, I deleted my .ml account lmao,

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[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

i can give you this link, you will understand, by reading the discussion, i guess.

the original, post refer to :

https://lemm.ee/post/47851637
&
https://lemm.ee/post/47839218

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Doing my best to understand, is your issue that this instance in particular (.cafe) defederated from .ml but still federates with exploding heads and the like? Or is your issue defederation from .ml in general? I can understand the former, but the latter seems like a weird stance - and I can't tell which it is

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The first, the first.
Im just tired of the lack of coherence and false explanation, to just be racists, often.

Sorry my English.

I have no particular interest in .ml,

But if they block .ml for reasons, then apply all of your principles... Not just use it as an excuse to be biggot or other.

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 2 points 23 minutes ago (1 children)

Yeah, that's reasonable. Your English is perfectly fine, I'm just autistic :P

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 1 points 14 minutes ago

And thats perfectly fine too, Thanks to you in reality 😊