Reddit hasn’t felt the same for me since around 2021/22.

At some point it stopped being a platform for niche communities to come together and became a cesspool of corporate/government astroturfing and karma farm bots with a side of real people.

Wouldn’t that be long term memory loss

Useless “nobody”.

CCP/Stalin apologists, people who defend the CPP/Stalin.

How about “advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom”?

If you genuinely still don’t understand what it means to defend authoritarianism, I can’t help you. It doesn’t get more specific than what I’ve already given you.

Otherwise, I’m not going to keep entertaining willful ignorance.

You’ve gotta be being deliberately obtuse.

How about “advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom”?

CCP/Stalin apologists, people who defend the CPP/Stalin.

Lemmy.world having no Marxist communities …

Still has nothing to do with my disapproval of tankie rhetoric. Personally I think everyone should be given a chance to have a civil discussion even if I disagree, but defederation isn’t my decision.

but very quickly Marxists get branded “tankies” and get banned.

I’ve never seen a shred of evidence for this, and I can see the modlog. I’m open to checking it out and advocating change if you actually have something to support this, but frankly, you running defense for Lemmygrad doesn’t exactly lend you any credibility.

If you post Marxist/communist/socialist stuff without a hint of tankie shit or authoritarian apologetics and it gets you banned, you have it here on record that I’ll personally defend you and advocate for change in the community.

To be fair I didn’t see anything all that bad when I skimmed Hexbear but clearly Lemmygrad has no shortage of CCP and Stalin apologists.

Either way, I don’t know why you’re whining at me about a decision I didn’t make or agree to, and has nothing to do with why I don’t approve of tankie rhetoric.

Communism is a lemmy.ml community … Lemmy.world does not host any communist communities

Which is accessible by .world users, so why would we need a new one that isn’t as active? Lemm.ee doesn’t have an ALTA community, do you think they all hate ALTA?

196 is an Anarchist community, not a Marxist one. Supporting Marxism can get you banned there.

We’re a leftist community. I’ve never seen someone get banned for supporting Marxism, and I’d invite you to post to your heart’s content but the crux of your issue seems to be that we have very different definitions of authoritarianism/tankie posting.

How about “advocacy of strict obedience to authority at the expense of personal freedom”?

Show me a Marxist community on Lemmy.world that actually has participants, lol

Accessed via .world, moderated by a .world user. I also moderate an openly pro-communist community from .world, [email protected].

You don’t understand how Lemmy works.

You can see why Return2Ozma was banned

He was banned from c/politics, not from .world. The c/politics rules aren’t .world rules. He made a post from .world literally a few hours ago.

(I don’t agree with the ban either, btw)

What Marxists get the pass, and which don’t?

Non-authoritarians and authoritarians respectively. It’s not that complicated.

There are no .world communities for Communism

Did you seriously not even look? Or do you not understand how the fediverse works

Return2ozma got banned on Lemmy.world for criticizing Biden.

Doubt.

Authoritarianism

We’re against tankies, pay attention dude

Are they very much against commies?

We’re not, OP is just butthurt about Their Guy™ getting publicly dunked on for tankie branded censorship

It’s not a bad game because they don’t have features to make it more accessible to me, but it COULD be a better game if they did.

They already have this feature. With the exception of Sekiro, you can summon a partner to help you defeat any challenge as long as you’re outside the tutorial area.

That, or you can just find enemies you’re comfortable with defeating repeatedly and use them to level up until the game is easy enough for you. Or you can look up good weapons and where to find them. Or items that may help in certain situations, or weaknesses the boss/enemy you’re struggling against has…

I think that stems from the developer’s intent. Making a hard game easier waters down the journey the creators intended, but making an easy game harder only adds to the experience. Like, the 2D Mario games are generally really easy, but there’s still lots of value in those games. But then there’s the bonus stages which are generally really difficult, and that adds even more value to the journey.

Then on the other hand you have From Software’s games, where the creator has said many times that the experimentation, adaptation, and the subsequent deep sense of accomplishment cultivated by the difficulty is a key part of the experience he wants his players to have. (There’s also the sense of community that comes with helping others with advice or cooperative gameplay) Relieving the player of the difficulty with an “easy mode” only serves to water down that experience.

Spicy going in, spicy coming out

It’s Twitter, dude. You’re limited by character count

In what sense is Apple not expensive monetarily, is a better question.

Their hardware is way more expensive than their competitors and they go out of their way to make them difficult to repair, all while making it difficult for third party repair shops to get the parts and schematics that they need. The genius bar goes out of their way to make you pay for a new laptop rather than do a repair that could be done for >100x cheaper by anyone else.

Depending on how you look at it, that is what he said

In German, “gross” = “great”

True, but it’s not that cut and dry. If someone who’s played Overwatch “2” tells me it’s Overwatch 1 with monetized competitive gameplay elements and no earnable cosmetics or any of the progression systems, that’s not a statement of opinion. It’s a fact, and it’s easily verifiable. (also, this is me, someone who has played Overwatch since release, telling you that it’s true)

Judging a game for something like that without having played it is valid. So I think, especially if you’re objecting to engaging with a game on ethical grounds, there’s a lot more room for judging a game without playing it than you’d think.

It’s the TF2 (Team Fortress 2 / Titanfall 2) situation all over again