Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
Yeah I didn’t realize it when I signed up. I just picked a random one cuz I heard it didn’t really matter which instance you pick. I just wanted to get off reddit.
Same. Got lucky and chose .world so not nearly as bad, but still ended up making a new account.
The only reason I wouldn’t go with world is because everyone goes with world and effectively centralising a federated service seems counterproductive.
Makes sense to me.
I’m hoping to one day soon start my own instance, so I’ll hold off on further instancehopping for now. piefed.social seems good enough so far
FWIW I’ve seen tons of people say similar. Usually after getting attacked entirely outta the blue lmao