• Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    Meme aside, addressing the title, no shit Sherlock,

    Lemmy was created by a Marxist Leninist, nicknamed “Dessalines”, after a revolutionary Haitian leader who even went so far as to slaughter the remaining French colonists, to destroy any remnants of colonialism

    If you’re reading this, search up his Github account and you will find upon many essays on Socialism…

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      1 year ago

      That’s… actually new information. Makes a heck of a lot more sense now. Thought all of this came from some bored dudes that saw messaging app aggregators and thought “what if we could do that but with all social media” and in a month scrapped together 0.0.0.1 ActivityPub standard and managed to tech demo it to their friends

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        1 year ago

        Being pro-Dessalines also underlines “tankie” mindset. Dessalines was an utter tyrant who declared himself emporer but his subjects weren’t slaves and everyone opposing him wanted to re-enslave them. Sure Toussaint Louverture would’ve been ideal but Napoleon rejected him so he failed. Its all strictly “lesser of two evils” mindset.