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maaj
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I stg it’s always a kbin mf saying some of the dumbest stuff. Like everyone says dumb things on here sometimes, but I can almost bet on it being a kbin user 45% of the time.

Entropywins
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Can confirm Im an idiot and use kbin…

You know what? You’re right. I’ve noticed this recently too but didn’t put two and two together

maaj
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I’ve held my tongue about it for 3 weeks because I thought I was just overreacting and being an ass. It’s nice to know someone else is seeing the pattern too.

ram
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I’ve been saying this for months. Kbin folks are just a type it seems

ripcord
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11Y

no u

I find myself to be an ass quite often so take my approval with a grain of salt. 🤣

maaj
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I’ll admit that about myself as well, lmao.

@601error@lemmy.ca
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This is a bit tongue-in-cheek, but kbin generally requires its users to be either unaware it is written in PHP or OK with using something written in PHP. That has to exert some selective pressure.

lol3droflxp
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Says the person on a website programmed by tankies

@jarfil@beehaw.org
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And here comes the kbin ad hominem strawman. Didn’t take long.

I’ve been called a “tankie” here seemingly at random. It’s funny because as a liberal American I have zero idea of what that even is. But yeah sure whatever the randos online say. 🙄

Whatever meaning it had originally is gone and it’s basically just a way to discredit anyone vaguely on the left you don’t like.

bermuda
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I have no clue where the word comes from, but my understanding is that it’s a hyper-authoritarian communist. Think Stalin or Mao Zedong. The kind of person who’s not afraid to start a genocide or a famine if it means the people dying of starvation are capitalists. You’ll usually see them defending or denying the crimes of the people I listed earlier plus others. Pol Pot is a good example.

I too have been called a tankie on here which is very strange considering I’m a bit less of a leftist than the majority on here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

It seems to come from 1950s “British political rhetoric”, the country that blessed us with The Sun, the Daily Mirror, and similar gems. Basically a slur.

lol3droflxp
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Maybe read the comment I responded to again

Why not both? They make fun of the technical knowledge of a userbase, you respond by insulting them directly for the non-technical ideology held by someone twice removed (while, coincidentally, providing an example for their point).

@601error@lemmy.ca
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I even explicitly called out my statement as tongue-in-cheek, so it’s not to be taken 100% seriously. And full disclosure: I myself am not a PHP developer, but much worse: a PowerShell developer, among other languages.

CarlsIII
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Hey don’t lump me in with idiots like this guy

When I was in kbin and could see who voted because voting metadata is visible there, almost always left wing comments (e.g. supportive of trans rights) received downvotes from someone on lemmy.world while the upvotes were from multiple, varied instances. So I’m not sure kbin is the biggest problem unless things have changed since then

There are two problems: federation works best with a variety of instances of like-minded people, and people on open-registration generalistic instances abusing that to wreak havoc on other instances.

Same as Instances can fully de-federate from other instances, they should also be able to de-federate voting from “non-friendly” instances.

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So the other 55% of the time it’s a Lemmy user? I.e. the majority of the time!? There is so much irony in your post.

Butterbee (She/Her)
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Is Lemmy just one instance? Or is your gotcha that if you add all of the lemmy instances together this one kbin.social instance just BARELY doesn’t account for over half of the problems people notice. Because that’s not quite the win you were going for.

maaj
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Lmfao, you rule

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