PorkrollPosadist

Steve Huffman commends you on upholding his moderation policy.

Real "A vote for Bart is a vote for Anarchy!" vibes every time that link gets shared. I love it.

I take a very literal approach to "the state." The state is the status quo. The way things currently are. The totality of social relations. The state is what keeps Haskell programmers awake at night. Nothing more, nothing less.

A hippie commune, an Anarchist book club, a Syndicalist federation, and a dictatorship of the proletariat helmed by a Communist party are all states. It isn't very useful to argue about what is and isn't a state. It is much more interesting to explore how these various forms of social organization differ in composition and outcome. To learn from effective practice, incorporate the triumphs of past movements, while avoiding the mistakes. Differing conditions call for differing tactics, and it doesn't behoove anybody to be too dogmatic.

Can they delete this?

This is a good point. This shit happens on Reddit and Twitter too, but when it happens there it's a brief meeting at corporate HQ followed by a swift ban wave. The extended drama is a consequence of the fact that no individual holds that power.

It is definitely inducing cognitive dissonance. The developers are simply are communists trying to collectivize social media, and that will live in their heads rent free as long as they stick around.

Why will they not federate with others, I need to see them all charge into Beehaw and Midwest Social, even if its only a day before they are taken off,

The short answer to this question is that it will require some robust discussion before a decision is made. At this point, no decision has been made one way or another.

They could be pulling something sneaky here. The vast majority of people lurk, and most people who lurk probably don't even have accounts. If you haven't bothered to sign up, you probably haven't bothered to use the old interface or a third party application. It wouldn't surprise me if the vast majority of their traffic comes through the standard web interface, even if the stats for user activity paint a different picture.

Lmao this shit is remining me of the hostile take-over of FreeNode.

This could potentially be implemented as a Lemmy theme, which users would be able to select on the settings page.