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I'm happy to have a Lemmy-alternative like Kbin (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by mstrbtr@kbin.social to c/kbinMeta@kbin.social

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Many might not know, but the developers of Lemmy are communist tankies - and i'm not joking - that spread propagranda and misinformation. They for example deny the genocide of the Uighurs in China as it is a "hoax perpetated by the western propagandists".

Now, we don't know where the creator of Kbin stands, but hopefully they aren't as controversial. As how I see it all the attention they are getting after the great Reddit escape is going to get quite a bit backtracked when all the tankie stuff starts to get a apparent and drives people away again.

Honestly I'd feel the most comfertable with something as close as possible to Reddit, like a one plattform company connected to the fediverse, instead of umbrella plattforms like Kbin, Mastodon, Pixelfed Etc.

But I am hopeful for Kbin and we will see over time where the Kbin creator goes. Luckily as it is the fediverse I can just jump ship to a different project if I see things going to wrong way lol

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[–] elight@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Joined Lemmy, discovered tankies, posted about it on Mastodon, and came here. So, yes, exactly.

[–] jeena@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

I joined /kbin because @feditips warned about lemmy, but https://kbin.social federates with lemmy.ml and in the China topic somehow within 3 hours or so me using /kbin I got into an argument with Tiananmen Square massacre deniers and the moderators started deleting my comments. Damn, I did not expect this to escalate so quickly. And this was not even on lemmygrad.

Anyway, I'm hoping for better blocking tools in /kbin because this will let me survive on that platform :D

[–] ceiling@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I was there for a day before I looked at the modlog and saw all of the deleted posts/comments that didn't even say anything racist/xenophobic, but they simply said they don't like/trust the Chinese government. Most even said they don't trust the US government either, but that doesn't matter to them if you don't like China or Russia. I for one don't like most governments, definitely not the US all of the time. But anyone that doesn't blindly accept whatever the Chinese government says gets banned from the lemmy.ml instance because that's "orientalism". Crazy

You can't convince them you don't hate Chinese citizens before they call you a racist and downvote you to oblivion.