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Chronicle the life and tale of the fediverse (+ matrix)

Largely a sublemmy about capturing drama, from fediverse spanning drama to just lemmy drama.

Includes lore like how a instance got it's name, how an instance got defederated, how an admin got doxxed, fedihistory etc

(New) This sub's intentions is to an archive/newspaper, as in preferably don't get into fights with each other or the ppl featured in the drama

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hexbear.net is on sale for auction (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverselore@lemmy.ca

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Auction: https://www.sav.com/auctions/details/7073489/hexbear.net

Not sure what will happen, but seems to be a Fediverselore event for sure

Update: post from hexbear admin on chapo.chat: https://chapo.chat/post/4468531

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[–] Akuji@leminal.space 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For Stalin, the CIA didn't think him a dictator.

I'm once again nitpicking on this because it prodigiously bothers me: the CIA collected and compiled comments from an informant. This is the nature of the document you have linked, not their opinion on the matter, not a statement from them, nothing of the sort.
Please, you have a bunch of books from reputable historians to mention and take quotes from, stop using this "unevaluated" information report as a proof of the CIA thinking this or that.

Edit:
Here's what they had to say about "stalinism" two years after the linked report in an analysis (Titoism and Soviet Communism):

This term is used to denote the teachings of Marx, Engels and Lenin as dogmatically interpreted by Stalin, and as imposed by him on the International Communist Movement.
The term denotes in particular the theory and practice connected with Stalin's personal dictatorship -- "one man rule" -- over the CPSU, the Soviet State, and -- under the guise of "the leading role" of the CPSU -- over the International Communist Movement as a whole.

As a matter of fact, the CIA did think him a dictator at the time.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

People don't generally read books even if I link them unless they are already interested in what I have to say. I could link Losurdo's Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black Legend if I wanted to share an objective critique of the man that neither glorifies nor demonizes him, or I could link sources on how the USSR was run so the term "dictator" doesn't make sense, but barely anyone would read them.

The CIA's later report seems to more be the "official line" rather than genuine analysis IMO.