Is there a way to shop around for a Lemmy instance based on how many instances are blocking it and how many instances it’s blocking? For example, I noticed that the lemmygrad.ml instance is relatively popular, but it seems like a lot of other instances block it. It also blocks a bunch of other instances. So, if there are any communities on there that might be relevant to me then I would be missing out. I guess I could just create an account on a walled instance, but I would prefer not to keep creating accounts. I’d like to just find one instance that maximizes my access. Is the answer to just run my own instance?

  • @FaceDeer@lemmy.ml
    3•11 months ago

    I’m not speaking about you specifically, I have no idea who you are. I’m talking about lemmygrad in general. Just like the person you were responding to was talking about. He asked “what did lemmygrad.ml do?” And I’m clarifying that.

    It’s not that lemmygrad.ml is simply “communist.”

      • @FaceDeer@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        Seems ironic in a thread where someone’s looking for minimally-blocked instances.

        But on the plus side, perhaps it illustrates the value of blocking.

      • comfyEnglish
        1•11 months ago

        They’re not sealioning, they’re responding to a bunch of strong, reasonably insulting allegations. Maybe not responding gracefully, but they’re not sealioning.

        In fact, I don’t even think it’s possible for one reply to be sealioning, the whole point is that it’s repetitive harassment (as stated in the wiki link you posted). That’s why the original comic strip that defined it has so many panels.

        • @0xc0ba17@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2•11 months ago

          There’s a thread of replies arguing on the semantics of communism, name-dropping stuff like Krause and Nomad (willfully ignoring the fact that FaceDeer’s issue is about LemmyGrad and not communism), and repeating “you’ve chosen to engage with me” while this is very obviously the other way around.

            • @FaceDeer@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1•11 months ago

              but says his issue is with how Lemmygrad is not communist.

              Nope. I don’t care whether they’re communist or not, they’re apologists for authoritarians. The communism thing is just an excuse they dress that up in.

              • diegeticscream[all]🔻English
                -1•11 months ago

                Nope. I don’t care whether they’re communist or not, they’re apologists for authoritarians. The communism thing is just an excuse they dress that up in.

                You said previously:

                Be mindlessly propagandistic “communist.” The countries they fawn over aren’t even particularly communist, they’re just authoritarian.

                I was challenging your implied assertion that LG isn’t communist, or that currently existing socialist countries aren’t communist.

                (For clarity, I’m using the terms “socialist”, “communist” and “Marxist-leninist” mostly interchangeably. That tends to be the practice in ML spaces, I’m happy to expand on that if it’s helpful).

                It doesn’t seem like you’ve got the knowledge base to argue whether or not a country like China or the DPRK is or isn’t socialist. If you want to argue that they’re bad because they’re authoritarian, that’s fine by me.

                Can you help me understand what you mean by “authoritarian” and how it doesn’t apply to Western/liberal democracies?

                It’s my understanding that every state uses authority to force some level of compliance at some expense to personal freedom (i.e. giving me a ticket for making graffiti is authoritarian).

                I don’t agree that every state’s use of authority is a bad thing.