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Lemmy is a piece of software. Its two main developers are communists. The software runs on many different servers (instances) that are mostly not communist and the two developers do not enforce any political ideology on the use or users of Lemmy (and couldn't even if they wanted to, which they clearly don't). There are two or three instances that are communist.
That said, if you're from the USA I'd hazard a guess that the word 'commie' to you is probably a person slightly to the left of Bill Clinton. At the moment, the entirety of Lemmy does lean slightly left and is generally progressive which is a refreshing change to the constant brain numbing right wing shitholes most mainstream social media sites are.
I'd urge you to not go looking for a fight. Just ignore, block and move on. This isn't reddit.
I'm from India and the word "commie" in my country is referred as a far left, anti nationalist person (because indian commies are usually anti national).
Why? Do they ban you if you fight like a redditor in the comments? Like how reddit straight up bans your IP nowadays (I'm new here)
Btw thanks for your comment
Communism is its own thing. Whilst its not exactly inaccurate to describe it as far left, there are also lots of far left people who are not Communists.
That depends on the Community (subreddit) you're in and the instance you're using. They might, they might not. But the reason I said it is because people joining Lemmy solely in order to get into fights with people is not what Lemmy needs.
Where in India are you from?
Northeast. Why?
Just curious because in the south there are states which have communist governments/large communist parties.
Why do you call communists "commies"?
Is it a derisive term where you're from?
The word is mostly used by the GenZ and millennials. They definitely took it from the American slang but usually we use it to refer to the communists of India who are usually liberal extremist and anti nationalist
I don't know how accepted it is to use the term in the US but in here people say it in public openly
If you mean mocking, then yeah. It is used to mock
The communist part of india (CPM) started from the eastern part of the country, West Bengal to be specific (which was the most progressive state back then), but when the party came to power it destroyed the state. Kolkata which was a cosmopolitan city both before and after the British colonial era, CPM destroyed every part of that city. Be it business, infra, culture, people everything. And again they were anti nationalist
Are you a nationalist?
Nationalist yeah. But not an extremist for that
For context-
If I say I'm a nationalist in India, people would assume I support the current government. But I don't prefer any political party of india because no one is trying fix the real issues. I just vote for the current govt because the opposition is being handled by restarted guy, Rahul Gandhi to be specific