That’s absolutely it. It’s not just hypocrisy either, scum like that don’t want children to be educated and participate the anti-sex-ed movement.

My school did mention that sending nudes are effectively producing and possessing illegal pornography. A few people in the class looked surprised and proceeded to delete pictures they or their partners had sent.

“live rent free in their heads” doesn’t mean to be aware of someone, it’s talking about obsession. That cm lad constantly tries to bring up “.ml” out of nowhere to incite drama, and I just took a glance at their user profile and holy moly it’s almost entirely just reposting from lemmy.ml.

Like just look at https://lemmy.world/post/30613970/17403019, a content creator is asking them to stop reposting their work to a certain community and telling them how it’s harmful, and cm0002 is just using that as an excuse to handwave it and soapbox. This is unhealthy antisocial behaviour.

Findafox is a good, work-safe example.

look at communist countries, Russia

Russia stopped being a part of the Soviet Union around 35 years ago. Capitalist reform (more specifically ‘shock therapy’) led to huge increases in child mortality, the establishment of mail-order brides and child prostitution, and the rise of its oligarchs. Things were so bad in the 90s and early 2000s that someone as horrible as Putin was considered an improvement, that’s how bad capitalism was for Russia.

I am critical of China, it has serious problems, but I don’t understand how someone can call it a shithole (and not say the same about America). Let alone suggesting one of the biggest economies in the world is not prosperous. It’s not the 80s anymore. There are valid critiques but that’s not one of them - if anything the ‘communist states’ are renowned for rapidly transforming multiple pre-industrial backwaters into world superpowers.

South Korea is an odd choice, given it’s already up to its Sixth Republic due to various coups and dictatorships and, if I’m not mistaken, its last three presidents were impeached.

Lemmy itself is apolitical

This is an absurd statement.

Its birth was political.

Its development model, licensing and network structure is political.

Its anticaptialist financial model is political. And this is not trivial or disposable. This is why there’s no ads or addiction-driven features shoved in the code. That’s why it’s not subject to venture capital and prone to enshittification (in the original sense of the word). That’s why people and communities can host diverse instances. That’s why you can join lemmy.world and block lemmy.ml. Those aren’t decisions in a vacuum or ideals arising from moral purity, these are the results of choices based in ideology. And even if an instance claims to be apolitical or even contradictory in politics, or even if a fork of Lemmy does this, this does not invalidate or evaporate Lemmy’s political factors, it only adds others. For example, lemmy.world is infamously liberalist, and bans people in congruence with that ideology: see Luigi discussions for a clear, well-known example, as well as being more tolerant of bigotry: see /c/conservative

What Im talking about isnt idealistic or hypothetical. To see this idea in action, see the beginning of BlueSky enshittification already forming. And look at the much older Mastodon which has resisted these same pressures. Mastodon can avoid the enshittification because its political structures are not beholden to profit and popularity, while BlueSky is pressured, e.g., to comply with Turkish state censorship to avoid losing market share.

but when I discuss my Anarchist positions I see significantly less censorship than world.

What kind of censorship are you seeing? I usually don’t hang there so I’ve only really seen their liberalist “anti-violence” suppression of Brian Thompson posting. Which honestly is enough reason to avoid, but I’m curious.

Also, agreeing from experience with the transphobia and hilarious ignorance of rabid anticommunists.

Disagree as much as you want, but assuming you’re a user, will you keep using it? This isn’t a whoopsie, or unexpected. As you pointed out, it will happen again. And it was always the safe, profitable choice for them - they’re a for-profit business beholden to VC money, not a political organisation or community project like Mastodon/Pleroma/etc.

It’s far easier to make that decision before they gain critical mass like twitter and reddit did.

My naive guess is that if the Turkish government ban access to BlueSky for not complying, that cuts into user count and therefore profitability.