I’ve seen several references to some sort of rift between the users of these instances today. What’s happening?

  • mlg@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    World users are just mad that the lemmy devs use ML which means they can’t verifiably call them uneducated morons, and ML users are mad that the World users are just smart enough to know the difference between socialism and communism that they won’t just auto buy into it lol.

    • BrainInABox@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      I wish they were smart enough to know the difference between socialism and communism.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      3 hours ago

      Socialism is when public ownership is the principle aspect of the economy and the working classes control the state, communism is when all production and distribution have been collectivized through socialism. Communism is therefore a post-socialist society, and socialism cannot last as a static system without advancing towards communism, because nothing is static.