Oh, found a post by the admin of that instance, it’s from a week ago

its the default setting of every new instance to require approval, on my instance i dont require email verification so i thought i could at least have people write something to let me know they’re human. in the end no one uses my instance so I just opened it up, maybe after some registrations ill make it an application again.

Boy oh boy, @gaylord you’re in for a fun time there, bud
48k users right now btw, he’s getting a lot of bots

bruh that k6qw lemmy instance 45.9k users right now but ZERO posts. wtf.
these bots are gonna be a problem
And my conspiratorial side makes me think that they’re not here by accident

instructed their members who were also members of the SRA to do everything they could to push out the anarchists and demsocs

HA. At least they’re keeping it historically consistent.
Hurr durr muh leftist unity, hurr durr.

Thanks for the explanation, I appreciate it!

A better version of the SRA that hasn’t been taken over by the PSL

Someone explain please, I’m curious.

Translated posts, first:

Fucking Waiters
About waiters, due to the fact that the new territories are now subjects of the Russian Federation, the residents of these regions should be treated like their fellow citizens, if you want to inspect a building or a vehicle - call an investigation team, witnesses.
If you do it yourself without informing the investigating authorities and the prosecutor’s office, you’ll have problems, because they may press charges and you’ll have a lot of questions.
In fact, you can’t even lift a slate on a private property just for fun.
They fuck up at every step. They say one thing, then another in 2 minutes, in the phones are correspondence with their relatives on the other side, money is transferred, you ask: “What the fuck?”, they say that the husband pays child support.
We’re riding in a tiger, a guy sees us and runs into the house. In the phone, all the correspondence was deleted, and my brother is a colonel of the Ukrainian police on the other side.
An old woman of 70 can bullshit in your face, which, by the way, was today.
I would introduce the initiative at least so that we can pinch those who do not have a Russian passport.
There are villages that have not been searched at all, and the people there are fucking nuts. In Dagestan, by the way, the FSB and Interior Ministry special forces (at that time) searched every house in the village, every address, but here for some reason there is no such thing, at least not where we are. It should have been joined when all these territories would have been cleared of this crap.
Overall, to summarize, our hands are tied and we have to work on the edge of the legal field.

Second:

I would like to complement my colleague with an example from my own life:
A comrade and I were driving along the Dnieper River in the Kherson region (we were delivering humanitarian aid to soldiers). The comrade (an active fighter of a special unit, took part in the Kiev direction) can speak Ukrainian very well.
And so we asked the local population in Ukrainian: "Yak spravy and where are the Russians here?
After some security, the local contingent in the color gave us the nearest TAC.
This is so, in addition to understanding the objective reality.

If you ask a liberal what “tankie” means you will get a response that sounds a lot like if you ask a conservative what “woke” means. The two main developers are communists, trying to collectivize social media. It is very shocking. 🙄

Opening with challenging the definition of “tankie” without knowing or asking on what definition I operate on is quite the red flag. Also the condescension instantly put me in defensive mode.

Dessalines has a collection of essays he’s written on Github.

Thank you for the links, now after seeing that individual’s defense and apologia of the genocidal soviet empire I’m more than convinced that is not the place for me.
Just from a cursory glance alone his attitude is vehemently imperialistic, not too different from what I’ve experienced from many privileged westerners.
Whether his heart is or is not in the right place, that’s another matter. But after a year and a half of excruciatingly depressing takes from western leftists of all kinds, I’m not going to surround myself with people that I disagree most, I value my mental health more than that.

Thanks again!

I’ve seen repeated accusations that lemmy is tankie/red-fash, especially when it comes to those that control it - mods/admins/w/e. How true is this?