“Could be the ratchet effect. Lemmygrad and Hexbear are both explicitly Marxist-Leninist, but .ml is explicitly FOSS and Privacy based, just with Marxist-Leninist admins.”

This was back when I tried to get PugJesus to try to understand how deeply unserious they were, and generally tried to appear less threatening to liberals to hopefully lead some to question liberalism or even read theory

(Spoiler: it didn’t work)

Specifically, it was in reference to Lemmy.world becoming more and more right-wing as the target boogeyman shifts from more overt to less overt leftism, especially since ml removed leftist from its description.

Kinda funny seeing it up there now that I’ve made a Hexbear account

  • Egon [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    7·
    5 months ago

    I’ve written so many bangers, so much unhinged shit, yet none of it has been made a tagline. I can only assume this is because hexbear is a psyop specifically made to make me a little bit frustrated

    • Cowbee [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      I think it’s precisely because I often say less than entirely based shit on my .ml account to soften my anti-liberalism for liberals, in the hopes that they may actually read theory, that this one got the tagline. Like, of course lemmy.ml is going to have MLs, lol

      It’s like in Dune, trying to go slower so the defenses don’t pick it up and I can land a strike